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Mon, June 04, 2007

CIO — Career Boost is a monthly column on CIO.com designed to help IT professionals advance in their careers. Written by executive recruiters, career coaches and leadership development experts, Career Boost provides practical advice on a variety of topics including networking, salary negotiation, interviewing, switching industries, career paths and much more.

Salaries: Seven Tips for Getting What You Want
Hashing out pay and perks with a prospective employer is fraught with risk. Follow these tips to negotiate the tricky salary question with confidence and sophistication.
By Debra Feldman

Becoming a Change Leader
If you want your organization to achieve its goals—and stand out from the pack when competing for jobs—you need to lead change effectively.
By Maya Townsend

Leadership & Generation X
How understanding the relevance of generational dynamics can invigorate your leadership potential.
By Deborah Gilburg

Five Tips for Making Progress In Your Career While Staying Put
By taking on developmental or stretch assignments, you can expand your skill set and develop your leadership capabilities—and thus your marketability—without spending all that time and effort job-hunting.
By Cynthia McCauley

Generation X: Stepping Up to the Leadership Plate
How to leverage the mind-share of retiring baby-boomers to advance your career.
By Deborah Gilburg

Seven Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Top IT Talent
The IT departments that effectively support and enable their companies in the next decade will be the ones that have enough of the best people. Your career hinges on your ability to hire the best.
By David Reff

How to Make the Most of those Holiday Networking Sessions
Season festivities present ample opportunities to network in relaxed, convivial settings. Savvy job seekers don't dread these social events; they embrace them, and you should too.
By Debra Feldman

Create a Smart Succession Plan
Without a succession plan, your retention rates will suffer—and so will your own ability to advance in your career.
By Martha Heller

Getting Your Name Out There: Four Simple Steps to Worldwide Fame
How the CIO can achieve a measure of fame and publicity in four simple steps.
By Martha Heller

Managing Competing IT Priorities
Here four of the most effective actions you can take to manage your organization's priorities.
By Maya Townsend

How to Go from CIO to IT Consultant
Here are three ways to pursue a career as a consultant.
By Martha Heller

Succession Planning Do's and Don'ts
Without a decent succession plan, your retention rates will suffer as will your own ability to advance in your company.
By Martha Heller

How To Turn Gate Keepers Into Greeters
Here are six ways you can increase the odds that gatekeepers will grant you access.
By Debra Feldman

Tips for IT Leaders Who Want to Move into the Business
Move into operations. Take on strategic planning. Become a sales leader. Create a new business role. Read how four CIOs crossed the divide.
By Martha Heller

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Top Solutions and Tools to Prevent Devastating Malware
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Identity Governance: The Business Imperatives
This white paper describes the business challenges and opportunities that are driving interest in Identity Governance while discussing considerations your organization should make to help achieve project success.
CA Technology Brief: CA Point of View: Content Aware Identity & Access Management
This paper explores the concept of content-aware IAM, describes the integrated architecture for this new approach, and highlights the benefits that this approach provides.
Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center - IDC-HP White Paper
One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.
Accelerate time to application value
For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment-an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That's HP Converged Systems. Built on Converged Infrastructure, these systems deliver the industry's first portfolio of pre-integrated, tested, and optimized infrastructure solutions for applications running in virtual, cloud, dedicated, or hybrid environments.
Business Value of Blade
The nature of the blade platform makes system management, monitoring and provisioning easy and efficient. Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.
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Apps QuickStart Series Part 2: Designing and Deploying SQL Server on VMware vSphere
Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations
Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business
Architecting a Modern Approach to Data Management
Applications are changing - they're increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn't working. What's needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.
Introduction to VMware View 5
VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control.

View this webcast and find out how VMware View 5 can help you:
- Deliver the highest fidelity experience of desktop services across any device and any network
- Simplify and automate IT management, security and control of desktop services
- Reduce the costs associated with your desktop environment
The CIO's View: Time-to-Value Through Automation
IT professionals are being asked to deliver faster "time-to-value" than ever before. An IDG Research survey found that CIOs are eager to invest in technologies that will enable them to get new applications and services up quickly, achieving faster time-to-value.
5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
Learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.
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Top Solutions and Tools to Prevent Devastating Malware

Identity Governance: The Business Imperatives

CA Technology Brief: CA Point of View: Content Aware Identity & Access Management

Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center - IDC-HP White Paper

Accelerate time to application value

Business Value of Blade

HP CloudSystem Matrix: Managing at a Higher Level

Virtual Infrastructure Yields Real TCO and ROI Advantages

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View

TechRepublic: Cloud Computing - Potential Value for Your Company?

Forrester: Economic Impact of Switching to Google Apps

HBR: What Every CEO Needs to Know About the Cloud

VMware Delivers a Modern Approach to Data Management: Solutions Brief

VMware View 5 Performance and Best Practices

Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: 2011 Update - Gartner Research

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A Power Brand Gains Strength Through Managed TMS

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