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	The Tech CIOs Are Paying For CIO's latest tech priorities survey suggests cloud and mobile continue to be in high demand Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver - April 28, 2011 IT Roadmap Denver returns April 28 to the Colorado Convention Center! Through executive keynotes, ROI workshops, technical tutorials, strategy sessions, networking opportunities and a private IT expo, attendees will gain insights into the latest IT issues, trends, challenges and solutions from top IT analysts and practitioners. Register now to attend! In this Issue How to Network: More Tips for Shy People Inside The Next Generation Vendor Management Office Server Virtualization: 6 Management Myths Cloud Computing: Advice for Application Control Freaks Facebook Questions: 4 Warnings Before You Start Integrating Social Media Is Hard to Do Avoid 3 Cloud App Development Sand-Traps Google Apps: How We Convinced the C-Suite Enterprise Collaboration Tools: 4 Ways to Achieve More Value Cloud CIO: 3 Private Cloud Use Case Scenarios 5 Things Accenture's CIO Has Learned About Cloud Computing Cloud Computing: A Sustaining or Disruptive Innovation? Switching Outsourcing Providers: 10 Tips CRM: Avoid 3 User Identity Mistakes iPad 2 in the Enterprise: One Company's Upgrade Strategy BlackBerry PlayBook to Run Android Apps: What It Means to You Amazon Appstore for Android: 5 Reasons to Love It--And 4 to Hate It Firefox 4: 3 Ways It Beats IE and Chrome Browsers 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 How to Network: More Tips for Shy People Introverts are often better at networking than most people think. In fact, their perceived weaknesses may actually be great strengths when it comes to forging new and lasting professional connections. Read More Inside The Next Generation Vendor Management Office How will your vendor management group do more for the business in the next few years? Consider this expert advice from Forrester Research. Read More Server Virtualization: 6 Management Myths Hint: You don't really know what hypervisors you're running, or what it all costs. Consider some expert advice on 6 common management mistakes. Read More Cloud Computing: Advice for Application Control Freaks The whole point of cloud computing is to easily leverage services you don't have to build and operate yourself. How do you make sure that the things you depend on will really be there over time? Read More Facebook Questions: 4 Warnings Before You Start Facebook started rolling out the updated Questions platform to all users yesterday. But before you try it, consider some privacy, search and online reputation issues. Read More Integrating Social Media Is Hard to Do CIOs want to integrate social media updates with enterprise CRM systems, but the tools to do so are still emerging Read More WEBCAST: Dell The Secret Sauce for a Seamless Windows 7 Upgrade Join award-winning technology editor Stan Gibson and guests from Dell and Microsoft who will explain why, at last, there's no need to delay any longer your upgrade to the next generation of Windows. Register Now! Avoid 3 Cloud App Development Sand-Traps Done wrong, cloud software projects can subject you to all the pitfalls of traditional software projects. Consider these three no-no's carefully. 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 Enterprise Collaboration Tools: 4 Ways to Achieve More Value Two-thirds of businesses don't reap the desired range of benefits from enterprise collaboration tools, according to a Forrester Research report. Here are four pieces of expert advice on how to drive adoption and capture greater results. Read More Cloud CIO: 3 Private Cloud Use Case Scenarios Organizations looking to deploy private clouds must understand where they're headed. A development cloud is an appropriate start, but consider these three scenarios for how use of your cloud will evolve -- for better or for worse, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Read More 5 Things Accenture's CIO Has Learned About Cloud Computing Cloud has already taken Accenture IT beyond better, faster and cheaper, says CIO Frank Modruson. As he prepares to move further into IaaS plans, he shares 5 cloud computing lessons learned. Read More 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 WEBCAST: Dell Best Practices for Virtualizing Your IT Environment In this Webcast you will learn how to give your business a strategic advantage through virtualization and how Microsoft Server 2008 Release 2 with Hyper V and Microsoft System Center, combined with Dell server and storage hardware can make your business both more efficient and more agile. View Now! 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 CRM: Avoid 3 User Identity Mistakes Putting customers aside for once, let's talk about your users who log in and work with CRM systems daily. Are you making any of these three big mistakes while managing user identities? 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 BlackBerry PlayBook to Run Android Apps: What It Means to You RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will support certain Google Android applications, but performance could be an issue. Here's expert analysis on what this news means to you--as a PlayBook owner, software developer or IT administrator--from CIO.com's Al Sacco. Read More Amazon Appstore for Android: 5 Reasons to Love It--And 4 to Hate It Trying to decide whether to download Amazon's new Appstore for Android mobile devices? Check out these five reasons to install the software now--and four reasons why you might want to pass, as CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco sees it. Read More Firefox 4: 3 Ways It Beats IE and Chrome Browsers The browser wars are back with a vengeance, which means your choices keep on coming: Firefox 4 hits this week. CIO.com's Bill Snyder breaks down several features that will wow you. Read More
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