4 Personas of the Next-Generation CIO

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	4 Personas of the Next-Generation CIO A new breed of CIOs is emerging. Here's a look at four roles that CIOs will be asked to play, ranging from Chief Integration Officer to Chief Innovation Officer -- plus details on the required skills. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Is Virtualization Safe for Business Critical Applications? Consolidate all your x86 servers and minimize infrastructure costs while building a flexible cloud computing infrastructure delivering business-critical applications as dynamic, cost-efficient, and reliable IT services. Learn More >> In this Issue Cloud Tools Organize Your Messy Digital Life Killing E-Mail Softly: How One Company Is Planning Its Demise CIOs: 5 Issues to Win Your CEO's Attention When the CIO is Also the CFO Outsourcing: Why CIOs Hate How You Sell IT Services 5 Reasons Why CIOs Can't Ignore Consumerization of IT IE9: Five Changes CIOs Should Care About iPad 2 Teardown: Q&A With iFixit on What's Inside, What's Next Verizon HTC Thunderbolt: Eight Key Features and Facts iPad 2 v BlackBerry PlayBook: 7 Enterprise Considerations How to Prepare Your Enterprise for iPad 2: Expert Tips [Registration required] Do iPad 2, iOS 4.3 Make Enough Gains for Enterprise? AT&T iPhone vs. Verizon iPhone: Which Performs Better? LinkedIn Search: 3 Ways to Maximize Your Social Networking Success [Registration required] 4 Virtualization Security Basics to Watch 5 Questions to Help Recenter IT Design on the Business Need to Get off That Cloud? A Virtual Moving Van How SaaS Will Impact 6 Key Software Categories Tech Titans Talk: The IDG Enterprise CEO Interviews WHITE PAPER: CyberSource Successful Enterprise Payment Security Learn how to reduce cost, complexity, and time, and better secure your payment process while remaining within PCI-DSS standards. Read more Cloud Tools Organize Your Messy Digital Life You've got e-mail, Gmail, online bank accounts, online bill paying, online backups, online photo albums and online docs. Wasn't technology supposed to make your life easier? New tools clean up the mess. Read More Killing E-Mail Softly: How One Company Is Planning Its Demise As fewer people rely on e-mail, one IT services company plans to eradicate e-mail over three years, in favor of social business tools. Read More CIOs: 5 Issues to Win Your CEO's Attention Some CIOs complain that IT department performance and project status dominate discussions with the CEO. If you want to change the conversation to IT's role in innovation and strategy, consider these five issues, advises Chris Curran. Read More When the CIO is Also the CFO IT exec Jeremy Hopkins has a bit more on his plate these days than some of his colleagues in high tech. Hopkins is the CIO at World Telecom Group in Malibu, Calif., a job that keeps him hopping. Read More Outsourcing: Why CIOs Hate How You Sell IT Services IT vendors spend $25 billion a year on lead generation, while CIOs have become skilled at the art of evasion. The technology marketplace is inefficient and often acrimonious. CIO.com talked to xPeerient CEO Mark Hall about why the IT marketplace is broken and what he thinks could fix it. Read More 5 Reasons Why CIOs Can't Ignore Consumerization of IT Social media's emergence as a key business app is just one of the trends that have led to a point of no return on consumer IT. Dell's Paul D'Arcy explains -- and shares how CIOs can plan for and benefit from the consumerization of IT. Read More WEBCAST: 1E Unlocking the Potential of IT Efficiency Date/Time: Tuesday December 14, 2010 – 11:30am EST Discover how to unlock the potential of IT efficiency in your organization with Forrester Research Analyst, Doug Washburn and 1E customer, Dell Inc. in this live interactive webinar and Q&A session. Learn More IE9: Five Changes CIOs Should Care About What does the new version of Internet Explorer have in store for enterprise IT? More speed, security features and broader support for Web standards should entice CIOs to take a look at IE9. Read More iPad 2 Teardown: Q&A With iFixit on What's Inside, What's Next What did uber-geek Kyle Wiens of iFixit find when he pried off the iPad 2's glass? "We've never seen so much glue inside of something before. " Wiens shares insights and predictions with CIO.com. Read More Verizon HTC Thunderbolt: Eight Key Features and Facts Verizon Wireless this week releases the long-awaited Android-powered Thunderbolt smartphone from HTC. Here are eight facts and features you need to know about Verizon's first LTE handheld before you buy. Read More iPad 2 v BlackBerry PlayBook: 7 Enterprise Considerations Which tablet is best for your enterprise? CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco explains seven key factors, from security to connectivity options, that enterprises must consider before choosing between the Apple iPad 2 and RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook. Read More How to Prepare Your Enterprise for iPad 2: Expert Tips [Registration required] Like it or not, business users will walk into your enterprise with iPad 2 tablets next week. Here are some key issues to help IT get ready for new provisioning, security and bandwidth challenges. Read More Do iPad 2, iOS 4.3 Make Enough Gains for Enterprise? Enterprises applaud the upcoming Apple iPad 2's videoconferencing, HDMI and tethering capabilities, but Apple could have gone further by slashing original iPad prices and extending Home Sharing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Why SMBs Should Move to Windows 7 Now Lower IT management costs and increased user productivity are just two of the many benefits SMBs gain with Windows 7. Read Now AT&T iPhone vs. Verizon iPhone: Which Performs Better? AT&T iPhone boasts faster data download and upload speeds, says a new study. But the Verizon iPhone is more reliable -- only when held perfectly still. Read More LinkedIn Search: 3 Ways to Maximize Your Social Networking Success [Registration required] For everything from finding connections at specific companies to applying for a job that meets all your criteria, here's how you can get the most form LinkedIn's people, company and job search capabilities. Read More 4 Virtualization Security Basics to Watch Virtualization security remains a moving target right now, as experts debate approaches and new technologies try to fill gaps. Here are 4 basics that remain important for IT. Read More 5 Questions to Help Recenter IT Design on the Business Stop designing IT architecture around applications and start designing for business outcomes, says Forrester's Randy Heffner. He shares five key questions to get you started. Read More Need to Get off That Cloud? A Virtual Moving Van Moving data and applications between cloud providers is a sticky problem that the industry will likely take years to solve. But a new tool from Racemi can ease some of the pain. Read More How SaaS Will Impact 6 Key Software Categories SaaS will steal the show in certain categories but remain a bit player in others, Forrester research shows. Here's a look at how SaaS will affect IT management tools, ERP applications and more, for the next two years. Read More Tech Titans Talk: The IDG Enterprise CEO Interviews In the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, you'll hear from technology CEOs on today's burgeoning trends, ongoing headaches and upcoming product plans. Check out this informative series from IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and his team of editors. Read More
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