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How to Retool Your IT Skills for the Cloud

Thu, January 12, 2012 - Cloud computing is transforming IT operations and management, but the transition for IT professionals doesn't have to be difficult or daunting. Here, cloud computing experts explain how IT professionals can adapt their skillsets for the cloud and the impact cloud computing will have on five different IT jobs. Full Story »

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Survey: IT Certifications Lead to Jobs, Higher Pay

Wed, November 16, 2011 - In this survey of 700 IT professionals, most say certifications have led to raises and better jobs, busting the myth that certs are nothing but a scam.

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What We’re Reading from the Nov. 15, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

Wed, November 02, 2011 - Books, blogs and research about IT, management and leadership

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What We’re Reading from the Nov. 1, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

Fri, October 28, 2011 - Books, blogs and research about IT, management and leadership

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10 Tech-Centric MBA Programs

Wed, October 26, 2011 - See what kinds of IT classes MBA students can take to earn an IS concentration.

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What We’re Reading from the Oct. 15, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

Wed, September 28, 2011 - Books and blogs about innovation and leadership success

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What We’re Reading from the Sept. 15, 2011 Issue for CIO Magazine

Wed, August 31, 2011 - Books, blogs and research about IT, management and leadership

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What We’re Reading from the Sept. 1, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

Mon, August 29, 2011 - Books, blogs and research about technology and leadership

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What We’re Reading From the Aug. 1, 2011 Issue of CIO Magazine

Wed, July 20, 2011 - Books, blogs and research about IT, management and leadership

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Indian Programmers vs. American Programmers: Whose Code Is Best?

Wed, July 06, 2011 - Online career development community Gild recently compared Indian programmers' math, logic, software development and communication skills with those of American programmers.

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What We’re Reading from the July 1, 2011 Issue of CIO Magazine

Wed, June 29, 2011 - Books, blogs and research about IT, management and leadership

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What We’re Reading from the June 1, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

Thu, May 26, 2011 - Books, blogs and research on IT, management and leadership

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What We’re Reading from the May 15, 2011 Issue of CIO Magazine

Thu, May 12, 2011 - Books and blogs on leadership, management and IT

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What We’re Reading from the May 1, 2011 Issue of CIO Magazine

Wed, April 27, 2011 - Books, blogs and research about IT, management and leadership.

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What We’re Reading from the April 1, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

Fri, March 25, 2011 - Books, blogs and research about IT, management and research

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Custom malware frequently goes undetected. According to Forrester Research, the best way to reduce risk of breach is to deploy file integrity monitoring (FIM) tools that provide immediate alerts. This white paper has been brought to you by NetIQ, the leader in solving complex IT challenges.

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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