3 Lessons CMOs Take Away From IT's Flawed Approach to Big Data

	IT Job Search Tips for Baby Boomers | Offshoring Will Kill 1.5 Million IT Jobs by 2017
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	3 Lessons CMOs Take Away From IT's Flawed Approach to Big Data There's no question that data analytics are playing an increasingly important role for marketing departments, but many marketers aren't getting what they need from the CIO. If IT can't deliver, CIOs should expect CMOs to go around them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology ESG - Evolving APM Big Data Approach This latest release facilitates bi-directional workflows between operations and application development to expedite problem resolution. Register to read report. Read more>> In this Issue IT Job Search Tips for Baby Boomers Offshoring Will Kill 1.5 Million IT Jobs by 2017 10 Hard-Earned Lessons of a Lifetime in IT Confidential Data Is Leaving on Workers' Mobile Devices Tech's Cash Kings Are Sitting on Billions Microsoft Explains the Nokia Deal: The Phone is Key to Everything CIOs Say Mentoring Works, Classes Don’t How Social Analytics Can Improve Enterprise IT Efficiency Why Microsoft's Next CEO Will Fail What to Look for When Evaluating Password Manager Software People and Processes: Keys to IT as a Service Success WHITE PAPER: K2 Goodbye Enterprise Software. Hello Business Apps. Enterprise software has expanded its footprint at a staggering clip, but it has created silos of business systems and data. Read Now IT Job Search Tips for Baby Boomers Is your extensive IT experience and your age making it harder to find a new positions? Learn how to limit the effects of age discrimination and land that interview. Read More Offshoring Will Kill 1.5 Million IT Jobs by 2017 Approximately 1.5 million IT jobs will be eliminated by offshoring and productivity improvements, according to the Hackett Group. And those jobs are not coming back. Read More WEBCAST: Dimension Data Disaster Recovery and the Cloud Join us for this special webcast featuring Keao Caindec, Chief Marketing Officer in the Cloud Business Unit at Dimension Data, who will discuss leveraging the full power of the cloud for DR. Learn More. 10 Hard-Earned Lessons of a Lifetime in IT Hotshot young techies take heed: Here are 10 things I wish I knew before starting my career in IT. Read More Confidential Data Is Leaving on Workers' Mobile Devices Are confidential corporate documents finding their way onto employees' personal phones, laptops and tablets? You bet. Even worse, the next-generation workforce doesn't care. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware Capitalizing on Desktop Virtualization As more than half of those surveyed by IDG move to virtual desktop infrastructure, mastering its complexities has never been more important. With the right best practices and trusted partners, you can do just that--thus accelerating time to value, simplifying deployment and management, and creating organizational agility. View Now Tech's Cash Kings Are Sitting on Billions Tech companies are hanging on to record amounts of cash when they could be using it to do more acquisitions, repurchase stock, pay down debt, and pay out dividends. Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Apple and Oracle are among the biggest hoarders. Combined, these five tech companies held $245 billion in cash at the end of March. Read More Microsoft Explains the Nokia Deal: The Phone is Key to Everything In a Tuesday morning conference call to investors, Microsoft will justify why it acquired Nokia's hardware business for a tad over $7 billion: It all starts with the phone. 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 CIOs Say Mentoring Works, Classes Don’t A survey of 200 CIOs finds that most well-meaning efforts at IT leadership development aren’t very successful. Read More How Social Analytics Can Improve Enterprise IT Efficiency VoloMetrix's enterprise analytics technology uses social engineering to let CIOs quickly identify bottlenecks and pain points in their organization. Using that data, they can better allocate time, energy and resources. The only catch is they have to mine employees email to get that data. Read More Why Microsoft's Next CEO Will Fail Steve Ballmer isn't necessarily a bad CEO. After all, Microsoft's on strong financial footing. But Ballmer made enough bad product decisions--Zune, Kin, Vista and perhaps Surface--to suggest that Microsoft employees, swayed by a forced-ranking employee rating system, told him what he wanted to hear, not what he needed to hear. If that culture doesn't change, Ballmer's replacement will fare even worse than he did. Read More What to Look for When Evaluating Password Manager Software Here are the significant issues that can distinguish one password manager product from another. You'll probably make a similar list of requirements as you do your own research for password managers. Read More People and Processes: Keys to IT as a Service Success IT as a service (ITaaS) provides a unique opportunity for IT and line-of-business leaders to realign to transform business. Over the past decade, IT organizations have worked hard to reduce delivery time and costs through automation and commoditization. At the same time, line-of-business owners have demanded more and unique offerings to drive agility and competitive advantage. More recently, the result has been business owners working outside of IT to meet their needs. Now, enabled by cloud computing, ITaaS is catalyzing profound change in IT organizations and the processes companies follow to achieve business goals. Read More
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