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	Pittsburgh is a vibrant ecosystem for high tech companies This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.  It's been three decades since I moved away from the Pittsburgh area. Fresh out of college and newly married, my husband and I left "the Steel City" for economic reasons. We couldn't find jobs. We weren't alone. In 1981, the unemployment rate for the greater Pittsburgh area was 18%. Even our newly minted university technical degrees couldn't help us in a town with a dying steel industry and not much more. I've barely given Pittsburgh's economy a thought since moving to Texas 33 years ago. Then the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance invited me back for an opportunity to tour the city's growing technology ecosystem. Wow, what an eye opener!To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Samsung Scaling the Mobile Enterprise Not all employers are ready to jump into the mobility space. There is a lot more to consider than just productivity, revenue growth, and operational efficiency – they have to consider security, device fragmentation, application and content complexity as well as cost to implement enterprise mobility. Learn More In this Issue A closer look at CIO salaries, bonuses and perks The Dangers of Dark Data and How to Minimize Your Exposure How Boston Children's Hospital Hit Back at Anonymous How to Ensure a Smooth IT Reorganization 9 Rules for the Developer-ization of IT WHITE PAPER: Unify Embracing a Flexible Work Environment This Infographic highlights the costs of losing experienced workers and the steps you can take to support a more flexible work environment Learn More A closer look at CIO salaries, bonuses and perks CIO salaries in the U.S. average between $153,000 and $246,750. But salary is just the beginning. Cash bonuses and equity awards can propel pay packages into the millions. To get a more complete tally, we scoured the proxy statements of the 500 largest U.S. companies and found 26 that disclosed CIO pay. Among those 26 IT leaders, median pay is $2.2 million. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Taming the Big Data Beast As IT publications and business magazines constantly remind us these days, we live in an era of big data. Considering just how big today's burgeoning repositories of insight-laden analytical data are, it's only natural to assume that governing them poses a whole new kind of challenge. Learn more! The Dangers of Dark Data and How to Minimize Your Exposure Structured data, like content in a database, is relatively easy to manage. However, confidential or sensitive unstructured information -- log archives and other untagged, non-inventoried data -- presents a real challenge to CIOs. Find out why 'dark data' can be a security risk and how you can protect your organization. Read More WHITE PAPER: Unify Five Reasons to Think Again about UC If unified communications is on your mind, you're probably looking for ways to leverage your current technology investment, flexible deployment options, global support capabilities, a vendor with a clear market vision, and expert advice. Look no further. Click here to learn how Unify can address all of your UC needs. Learn More How Boston Children's Hospital Hit Back at Anonymous On March 20, Dr. Daniel J. Nigrin, senior vice president for information services and CIO at Boston Children's Hospital, got word that his organization faced an imminent threat from Anonymous in response to the hospital's diagnosis and treatment of a 15-year-old girl removed from her parent's care by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.The hospital's incident response team quickly convened. It prepared for the worst: "Going dark" – or going completely offline for as long as the threat remained.[ More: 'Anonymous' Targets Boston Children's Hospital ]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More How to Ensure a Smooth IT Reorganization IT reorganizations are costly both in terms of resources and productivity. To minimize those costs, CIOs and IT leaders should understand the nature of the problems they are looking to solve, have a solid strategy and be sure that business strategy is at the heart of the reorganization efforts.Know the Problem Before going down the reorganization path consider other ways to fix what is ailing your organization. It all starts with having a grasp of what the actual problems are. Once you have that knowledge, you can decide what your next actions should be. "IT leaders should first ask themselves what they hope to accomplish," says Julie Stansbury, CIO of GE Capital Treasury.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 9 Rules for the Developer-ization of IT CIOs who want to drive innovation and change in their organizations should focus on making the lives of developers easier so they can innovate, produce great apps and deliver valuable IP. Read More
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