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The Patriot Act and Your Data: Should You Ask Cloud Providers About Protection?

Does the USA Patriot Act give the U.S. government too much access to data stored on the cloud servers of American providers regardless of where those servers are located? That's the concern among European IT leaders. Full Story »
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Backers of SOPA and PIPA Hopeful Revised Bills Can Move

With controversial DNS blocking provisions gone and an equivocal statement from the Obama administration, content industry lobbies press for passage of anti-piracy legislation. However, thousands of destinations websites such as still Wikipedia plan to go dark in protest of the SOPA bill.

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SOPA, PIPA Opponents Prepare for Capitol Hill Piracy Showdown

Competing visions for how to address overseas copyright infringement will take center stage in Washington.

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U.S. CIO: Changing the Culture of Federal IT

U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel hopes cloud computing, Web services and a new IT culture of sharing can reap huge savings and prop up Uncle Sam.

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Offshoring: 7 Tips To Prepare for India's Proposed Privacy Rules

India's proposed data privacy regulations could create serious logistical problems for offshoring customers if passed. Offshore outsourcing attorneys and analysts explain how the data protection rules will impact customers.

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Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard Rates Climate-Change Leaders and Laggards

Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu earn top honors for their efforts in climate solutions, remote collaboration and telecommuting offerings.

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Contrarian Says U.S. Needs More H-1B Workers

Is the United states wasting its time and playing to the fears of "nativists" with its current H-1B visa policies? Some libertarians say yes--and argue that the U.S. needs to abolish H-1B restrictions.

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How to Save U.S. IT Jobs

Most of the government activity related to creating or securing U.S. IT jobs, curbing offshore outsourcing, restoring America's IT competitiveness, and limiting temporary visas for foreign tech workers has been more grandstanding than grand plans. Here, 10 outsourcing experts offer their proposals for restoring America's IT labor force.

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The Problem with Schumer's Plan to Tax Offshore Call Center Use

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer says he plans to propose a bill to curb the use of foreign call centers and bring call center jobs back to American shores, but the legislation could prove more costly to the government than to companies that outsource overseas.

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Displaced IT Workers Apply for Federal Help

A state that was a leader in the legislative battle over outsourcing, Connecticut, is now reporting the impact of the offshore shift, although indirectly.

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H-1B Visa Holders Earn More Than U.S.-Born IT Professionals, Study Claims

Findings from a new IT salary study conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland challenge the notion that H-1B visa workers depress the wages of American-born citizens and that American corporations only hire H-1B visa workers for cheap labor.

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Senate Dems Aim to Staple Green Cards to Tech Diplomas

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday released a framework for discussion of comprehensive immigration reform in Congress. The framework didn't include a timetable.

Advice & Opinion

It Can Take a Crisis to Change a Policy

This is a story about how budget cuts take a toll on security, but it's also a tale about how security setbacks can be opportunities to introduce much-needed measures.

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The Truth About the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2009

Will the proposed legislation address the problems some American IT workers have with the H-1B visa program? Will it damage business relations between the U.S. and India? What are the odds of the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2009 passing? CIO.com has the answers.

Advice & Opinion

Opinion: it May Be Social, but it's Still Media

Your company needs a social media policy. Why? Because a company that engages in the public forums that constitute social media has entered the world of publishing.

 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.

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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.
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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.
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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