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	CBS Interactive CIO Says Shadow IT Is an Opportunity By looking at the shadow IT that lines-of-business deploy and asking business leaders how it improves their business, IT organizations can gain a better understanding of what they can bring to the table to help the business succeed. Read More WHITE PAPER: Open Text Global Growing Pains: Tapping into B2B Integration Services A recent survey by IDG Research explored both the challenges and pain points companies face when growing globally, as well as the capabilities they're seeking in B2B integration partners. Learn More In this Issue States worry about ability to hire IT security pros INSIDER How to Balance IT Onshoring and Offshoring Cisco, Oracle find dozens of their products affected by Shellshock Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on DevOps, apps, and infrastructure INSIDER Outgoing Commerce Department CIO pushed to shake up the federated model This is what's holding the public cloud back Evernote everywhere? New collaboration tools hope to take over your workday How the cloud is changing the security game How to avoid an Oracle ERP upgrade disaster WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. Learn More States worry about ability to hire IT security pros States' efforts to improve cybersecurity are being hindered by lack of money and people. States don’t have enough funding to keep up with the increasing sophistication of the threats, and can’t match private sector salaries, says a new study.This just-released report by Deloitte and the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) about IT security in state government received responses from chief information security officers (CISOs) in 49 states. Of that number, nearly 60% believe there is a scarcity of qualified professionals willing to work in the public sector.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER How to Balance IT Onshoring and Offshoring Three CIOs share their strategies for striking a balance between onshore and offshore IT resources to meet business needs. Read More Cisco, Oracle find dozens of their products affected by Shellshock Cisco Systems and Oracle are hard at work identifying networking and other products in their portfolios that are affected by the critical Shellshock vulnerability.The Shellshock vulnerability and several related ones found over the past week stem from errors in how the Bash command-line interpreter for Unix and Linux systems parses strings passed to it by external scripts. The flaws allow attackers to trick certain processes running on vulnerable machines to pass malicious strings to Bash that would then get executed as commands on the underlying OS.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell | Symantec Strategies for Gaining Control and Securing Mobility We are in the midst of a mobile revolution. Numbers of mobile devices are growing with some experts predicting that employees will be carrying three or more devices. Growth is not limited to just devices. As the number of enterprise apps rapidly expands, "an app for everything" is a slogan few would question. Learn More Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on DevOps, apps, and infrastructure Every so often I get the chance to chat with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. When we spoke earlier this month, the open source company's quarterly financial results had just come out, but one of the reasons I enjoy our conversations is that they somehow manage to focus on the big-picture trends affecting the technology industry, not the momentary forces of any particular company — include his company.See also: Red Hat CEO addresses big data's chicken-and-egg question This time, we delved into the increasing importance of developers in IT departments. "In Europe last week," Whitehurst told me, "I had conversations with CIOs and it was all about DevOps, agile, and continuous development like I've never heard before." For IT leaders, Whitehurst said, the key conversations are moving from infrastructure to "how do I develop apps more quickly?" That’s a huge sea change in CIO thinking.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER Outgoing Commerce Department CIO pushed to shake up the federated model When Simon Szykman was named CIO of the U.S. Department of Commerce, he inherited a federated IT organization that needed to improve its efficiency and effectiveness, so he applied his strategic vision and consensus-building skills in efforts to make progress in both areas. Read More This is what's holding the public cloud back My colleague Brian Eastwood has a fine piece over at sister-site CIO.com this week about how Boston Children’s Hospital responded to DDOS and other attacks made on the institution. My big take away from it is that this is an example of why some institutions will likely never go all-in with the public cloud.+ MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Today's security attacks are after more than just bank info +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : McAfee Needle in a Datastack Report The volume of security-related data today can make identifying a threat like looking for a needle in a haystack. Yet collecting more data also plays a transformational role in information security. Organizations need to learn how to harness and sift through this wealth of information to protect themselves from the threats they face every day. Learn more >> Evernote everywhere? New collaboration tools hope to take over your workday Evernote, with its new Work Chat messaging app and Context research tool, hopes to turn plain old chat into an enhanced communication medium. Whether these new features will woo workers away from established competition is a very open question. Read More How the cloud is changing the security game New market of vendors has sprouted up to secure the cloud Read More How to avoid an Oracle ERP upgrade disaster Users who have gone through the experience advised their peers during OpenWorld Read More
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