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	From physical to virtual to cloud and everywhere in between CIOs everywhere are transforming their data centers from purely physical infrastructures located on-premises to virtual infrastructures that also make use of the cloud. Read how one data-driven company made the transition. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire So Much Data, So Little Control It used to be that all you had to do to protect your company's intellectual property and customer information was lock the file drawers and, later, put layers of defenses around the data center. Learn More In this Issue How to Craft the Best BYOD Policy CIOs Struggle with the Great Talent Hunt 9 Things to Consider Before Accepting That IT Job Offer 7 More IT Outsourcing Lessons From Offshoring Pioneers 10 tips to secure funding for a security program What I'm Learning about Mobile Computing Security Best Practices WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP This paper describes a hardware and software reference architecture for using HP hardware to deploy very large and highly transactional Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 OLTP database systems in tier 1 enterprise application environments. Learn More! How to Craft the Best BYOD Policy What is a good BYOD policy? Step one is to clarify the rights of both company and employee and state upfront what's business and what's personal. But there's a lot more to it. In this interview with a technology transactions lawyer, CIO.com explores the do's and don'ts of BYOD policies. Read More CIOs Struggle with the Great Talent Hunt Finding IT pros with business skills has always been a bear. So award-winning CIOs are taking radical steps to train, recruit or grow the hybrid staff they covet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com The Science of Social Listening for Customer Experience Customers today expect immediate service and fast resolutions from the social Web. These conversations are happening right now, on millions of sites, among millions of people. Are you listening? Learn how your business can transform the customer service experience into a more social one. Learn More! 9 Things to Consider Before Accepting That IT Job Offer Changing jobs is one of the most traumatic professional experiences of your life. Throughout the hiring process you are being evaluated. However, it shouldn't be a one-way street. To be the best at what you do and succeed you need to do some evaluating of your own before you sign that offer letter. "You need to be interviewing the company just as much as they are interviewing you," says Chad Lilly, director at Lextech Global Services. Read More 7 More IT Outsourcing Lessons From Offshoring Pioneers In part 2 of our two-part series on IT offshoring lessions, we look at seven more examples of successful IT outsourcing offshoring best practices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Five Tips for Outsmarting the Information Age Adversary Today's attackers vigilantly wait for you to slip up before they strike your information systems and compromise your data. Learn five actions you can take to improve your information risk management and security strategy and stay one step ahead of the information age adversary. Read More 10 tips to secure funding for a security program Ask any cyber security specialist what their biggest challenge is, and you will get a variety of answers -- ranging from strengthening network security, to managing internal threats, to protecting against cyber espionage. But upon further investigation, you may be surprised to learn that the unanimous pick for the biggest challenge cybersecurity professionals face is simply getting the funding necessary to carry out a security program. There are a great deal of resources and technical support available on how to deal with the never-ending list of threats that arise daily; and we have plenty of opportunities to learn and digest security best practices. However, little information or guidance is available to prepare one for the dreaded budget discussion when new or continued funding is necessary to maintain a strong cyber security posture. Read More What I'm Learning about Mobile Computing Security Best Practices When I started my career at EMC in 1987, the company ran the business on Prime Computers. I was able to convince my boss that I could improve the quality and efficiency of our group's business reports with a PC, so the company purchased a Macintosh computer and printer for me to use. This may have made me the first PC user in EMC history though I can't be sure. Read More
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