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	How a CIO Can Save an Incompetent CEO When a bad CEO goes down, the CIO often goes down with him. The way to save yourself, and your company, is to invest in the analytics technology that gives the CEO the data necessary to make smart business decisions. It doesn't hurt that it also shows why the CIO is more valuable to the CEO than other C-level executives. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee Implementing and Managing a Data Loss Prevention Solution Implementing and managing DLP isn't as difficult as many security professionals expect. Securosis LLC has collected countless tips and techniques for streamlined and effective deployments and compiled into straight forward processes to ease most common pain points. Read Now In this Issue Microsoft Tells Federal CIOs Mobile Management Is Better With Windows 8 INSIDER IT Spending on (Slight) Rise, Mobile Tops the List When open source competitors work together, we all win When the PC is obsolete, how will you do this, and this, and this? Open source is taking over the software world, survey says WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More. Microsoft Tells Federal CIOs Mobile Management Is Better With Windows 8 The lines between PCs, tablets and smartphones will continue to blur. In response to this shift, Microsoft is selling a vision of single-device management to public-sector IT workers and federal government CIOs. Read More WEBCAST: VMware, Cisco and NetApp Consider a Better Way to Virtualize Oracle Databases This video highlights how three industry leaders - VMware, Cisco and NetApp have teamed to provide a solution that can help you lower your Oracle database license and maintenance costs. View Now! INSIDER IT Spending on (Slight) Rise, Mobile Tops the List Forty-eight percent of the CIOs surveyed expect to increase spending this year, up slightly from this time last year. Mobile, business intelligence, and cloud infrastructure and services are the most cited categories. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire SANS Secure Configuration Management Demystified Security experts and analysts agree that a systematic, enterprise-wide program of secure configuration management is one of the most beneficial security solutions you can implement. It provides an objective, concise measure of your overall security posture. Learn More When open source competitors work together, we all win Open Source software is great. On that, I am fairly confident, we can all agree. The ability to obtain and modify the source code to the software that you rely upon...well, it's a major win. But there's something even better than access to the source code itself: seeing Open Source project teams, of what seem like competing tools, work together to make everyone's lives better. That is exactly what... Read More When the PC is obsolete, how will you do this, and this, and this? Take a tour of the PC's greatest talents. Read More Open source is taking over the software world, survey says It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general. Read More
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