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	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 WHITE PAPER: HP HP's Prescription for Next-generation Data Center Networks Healthcare organizations of all sizes are expected to expand the amount and types of services they offer without driving up their budgets or jeopardizing data protection.In this paper, we'll lay out the challenges healthcare organizations are facing and how HP is the right partner to help solve them. Read now In this Issue Cloud Computing: A Sustaining or Disruptive Innovation? iPad 2 in the Enterprise: One Company's Upgrade Strategy Moving to Cloud to Gain Agility: 5 Lessons Google Apps: How We Convinced the C-Suite Future of CIO Role: Drive the Business or Face Career Stall Switching Outsourcing Providers: 10 Tips Remote-Controlled Nanoparticles Target Cancer Robots Swim Through Eyes to Give Treatment WHITE PAPER: Netuitive Get Proactive About Virtualization Performance Is the reality of virtualization proving more challenging than expected? Virtualization, by nature, is comprised of many interrelated systems—storage, network, server. Poor performance of one impacts the others; and that ultimately affects users. Read Now Cloud Computing: A Sustaining or Disruptive Innovation? Is cloud computing a disruptive innovation, as defined by Clayton Christensen? CIO.com's Bernard Golden explores whether internal data centers will go the way of companies that are innovated out of business. Read More iPad 2 in the Enterprise: One Company's Upgrade Strategy Execs demanding Apple's new iPad 2 teach IT one thing fast: This is no PC refresh cycle. Here's how one manufacturing company is handling the upgrade. Hint: Think hand-me-downs. Read More Moving to Cloud to Gain Agility: 5 Lessons Drug-maker Biogen Idec's IT team used cloud infrastructure to give the company's research scientists new flexibility. Consider these key lessons learned as they adopted CloudSwitch and Amazon technology. Read More Google Apps: How We Convinced the C-Suite Dominion Enterprises CIO Joe Fuller faced the challenge of converting 280 magazine brands to one collaboration suite and persuading execs that the cloud was right. He shares advice, including how he won over skeptics on privacy and compliance worries. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin™ Compared This ebook will provide the fundamental differences between the Netezza TwinFin® and Oracle Exadata solutions from the perspectives of query performance, simplicity of operation and value. The ebook will help you determine which solutions best meet your business needs and how to achieve optimal results from your data. Read now Future of CIO Role: Drive the Business or Face Career Stall IT leaders are at a crossroads. Read More Switching Outsourcing Providers: 10 Tips IT leaders are doing as much re-sourcing--bringing work back in-house or transferring it to a new provider--as they are signing new outsourcing deals. But "recompeting" an IT services deal isn't simple: Consider this expert advice before switching outsourcing providers. Read More Remote-Controlled Nanoparticles Target Cancer Researchers at a Canadian university are using nanotechnology and a tiny remote-controlled magnetic sphere to deliver cancer-fighting drugs directly to where they need to go. Read More Robots Swim Through Eyes to Give Treatment The latest in eye treatment is just around the corner. A new tiny robot capable of being steered through your eye can deliver drugs or maybe even do micro-surgery. Thanks to Michael Kummer and his team at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), this tech may be available to the public in a short time. Read More
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