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	Steve Ballmer's Departure From Microsoft Isn't News, But Timing Is Microsoft observers knew CEO Steve Ballmer was due to step down soon, but announcing his impending retirement weeks after an executive reorganization seems odd. With that in mind, CIO.com contributor Jonathan Hassell examines the triumphs and missteps of Ballmer's 13-year tenure in Microsoft's corner office. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW CRM Best Practices As we move further into an era when the manipulation and assessment of data and consumer information represents a primary competitive advantage, having a strategic plan for customer relationship management (CRM) is essential. Read Now In this Issue Google's Invasions of Privacy, Free But Flawed Products Show Its Arrogance Who Are the Real Winners in the Microsoft-Oracle Deal? 5 Reasons You Can Finally Ditch BlackBerry HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists 8 Things You Need to Know About SEO Now 10 Software Defined Networking Startups to Watch INSIDER How Analytics Tools Measure a Corporate Turnaround Healthcare IT Struggles to Keep Up With Mobile Health Demands Desktop Virtualization Cures Paper Problem for Healthcare Provider WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology NPM Delivers Improved Network Visibility to IT Operations NPM tools provide performance and availability monitoring solutions for the applications traversing the data communication network (including network devices themselves and the network traffic they are passing). Read Report Now Google's Invasions of Privacy, Free But Flawed Products Show Its Arrogance Google is now admitting that its users shouldn't expect privacy when using Gmail. Meanwhile, a PC OEM says the free Android OS costs more, and causes more headaches, than Windows. Put this together, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle says, and you have a company that very well may be too arrogant to survive. Read More Who Are the Real Winners in the Microsoft-Oracle Deal? The new Microsoft-Oracle partnership benefits both companies, as Oracle gets access to Azure and Microsoft can finally license Java. Will the deal have any effect on either company's enterprise customers? Read More 5 Reasons You Can Finally Ditch BlackBerry BlackBerry 10 smartphone sales have been disappointing, and last week the company announced that it's essentially up for sale. Bad news aside, five key industry trends suggest that BlackBerry's purported advantages no longer matter. Read More WEBCAST: Verisign Inc. The Expanding DDoS Attack Surface In this webcast, hear two technology experts discuss a new approach to defending against these attacks that ensures operational effectiveness and scalable protection to ultimately drive availability of your critical web systems. Date: Thursday, August 22, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT Learn More HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists As leading HR departments turn to 'talent analytics' for a wide range of staffing issues, CIOs are at the center of this data-driven transformation Read More 8 Things You Need to Know About SEO Now Google has been busy making big algorithm changes for the past year and a half. Here are eight things SEO experts say you should be doing now to keep your content high in search result rankings. Read More 10 Software Defined Networking Startups to Watch As the software-defined data center evolves from dream to reality, many Software Defined Networking (SDN) startups are being snatched up by established networking vendors. Here are nine SDN startups (and an important new standards body) that intend to push SDN into the mainstream. Read More WEBCAST: Microsoft Corporation Turn Emergencies into Knowledge: From 911 to 411 Big Data- It's one of today's hottest business trends, and IT is expected to lead the charge. In this webcast from Microsoft, you'll hear from a pair of experts how IT is giving people the tools and technology to turn that data into action. View Now INSIDER How Analytics Tools Measure a Corporate Turnaround SAP's HANA database and other tools power an executive dashboard at struggling medical device maker Boston Scientific Read More Healthcare IT Struggles to Keep Up With Mobile Health Demands Healthcare, like most industries, finds its hard to meet the mobility desires of employees (caregivers) and customers (patients). But while healthcare struggles with unique legal and regulatory impediments that other fields don't face, it's also poised to gain much more from what some call a 'mobile revolution.' Read More Desktop Virtualization Cures Paper Problem for Healthcare Provider With thin clients and electronic medical records, one healthcare provider keeps more accurate patient records. Read More
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