CIO Magazine

December 1, 2008 Issue
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Features

Go Home, Part Three

In this story, the third of three parts, managers and staff at a small software company adjust to telecommuting and share their keys to success. Part One focused on the network infrastructure. Part Two covered work at home policies. Full story »

Go Home, Part Two

How a small software company is saving money and improving productivity by closing its offices and having employees work at home. Part one focused on the IT infrastructure needed to support telecommuters. In this story, the second of three parts, Chorus establishes work-at-home policies and figures out how to provide remote tech support. Full story »

Go Home, Part One

With the right technology infrastructure, a small software company has made the work at home dream a reality for all of its employees. By closing its offices and going virtual, Chorus is saving money, eliminating employees' commuting expenses and improving everyone's productivity in addition to customer satisfaction. The first of three parts. Full story »

Doing Layoffs Right

A layoff is still a layoff. But how you do it matters to the strength of your IT organization. Full story »

Careful With That Axe

CIOs can deliver higher value results at lower total cost by investing talent management Full story »

How to Recession-Proof Yourself

Five tips for saving your job when layoffs loom Full story »

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Editor's Letter

Crisis Time

What to do when incrementalism just isn't enough Full story »

Publisher's Letter

Rotten Code

It's time to plan now if you want to maintain your aging code as baby boomers retire. Full story »

Grow
Q&A

Afraid of Telecommuters?

Who's afraid of the flexible workplace? Too many enterprises: Employers are missing opportunities to harness the business value associated with workplace flexibility for employees, says expert Karol Rose. Full story »

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CIO Paradox

CIO to CEO: How to transition to tech company honcho

Want to run your own technology company? Three CIOs-turned-CEOs explain how to successfully make the transition out of IT. Here's what you need to know. Full story »

CIO Paradox

Running Your Own Technology Company

CIOs-turned-CEOs discuss how to make the transition from one role to the other Full story »

Columns
Strategic CIO

Are You an Activist?

There's value trapped in legacy systems and business processes after a merger or acquisition. It's up to you to find ways to set it free. Full story »

Departments
Essential Technology

Ready, Set, Slow

To get all the benefits of storage virtualization, make sure you've accounted for possible interoperability and infrastructure headaches. Full story »

Essential Technology

Windows 7 and Your Next OS Upgrade

Skipping Vista? Some reasons to rethink that decision. Full story »

Trendline

A Techie Wish List

Gadget makers hope you have some money to spend this holiday season. Full story »

Trendline

Trendlines: New, Hot, Unexpected

This issue of Trendlines from the 12/1/08 Issue of CIO Magazine covers GM's Visual Modeling, Outsourcers in India after Obama's Win, Green IT and More Full story »

Trendline: Hot Jobs

Data Modeler

Performing the design work that enables production systems and applications to use data and drive business processes. Full story »

White Papers »
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Top Solutions and Tools to Prevent Devastating Malware
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Insiders Can Ruin Your Company. Take Action.
Did you know that 80 percent of threats to an organization come from the inside? The threat from insiders is often overlooked in organizations worldwide. This white paper from NetIQ, discusses key technology solutions that help to prevent and detect insider threats.
X-Ray of the PCI Process-4 Proactive Steps
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Streamline Compliance and Increase ROI
Streamline, simplify, and automate compliance related activities; especially those that impact multiple business units. This white paper from NetIQ, outlines solutions that will help your business gain the maximum return on investment possible while aligning your compliance programs.
Has Your Server Infrastructure Kept Pace with End User Demands?
Learn how your answer to this question compares to your peers by taking this quick poll. See how your peers are dealing with the challenge of ensuring a highly capable server infrastructure as technological shifts impact the application server platform.
Webcasts »
Virtualization Success is a Team Effort
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
Optimizing Networks for the Cloud
Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and enterprise campus network infrastructures for the Cloud, and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance.
Customer Spotlight: How IPC The Hospitalist Company Implemented Oracle on VMware
Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
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
Apps QuickStart Series Part 1: Designing and Deploying Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere
Download this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and disaster recovery and support considerations.
Virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle on VMware vSphere: Benefits and Best Practices
Virtualizing business-critical applications is an essential step in your journey to the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint, and Oracle applications, are often the backbone of business IT. The benefits of virtualizing these applications extend far beyond mere consolidation. Understanding how VMware improves quality of service and agility while reducing costs will help you make the case for taking virtualization to the next level in your company.