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Embedded Device Security Is Easy to Overlook
In the enterprise there are business-class routers, perimeter security devices, and network attached storage. Specialized industrial control systems can manage everything from building climate control...
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What One CIO Was Thinking... When He Made a Big Hire
Ever go on a job interview, and wonder what really mattered to the hiring manager? Here's one clue. CIO Michael Hugos was ready to hire a director of IT operations. "I decided to take a different...
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India Aspires for IPv6 Conversion by 2017
Most countries are just getting started, with IPv6 accounting for just 0.19% or 3.9 million of the total 2 billion Internet population as of October 2012. India is no exception; Google statistics show...
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Trust, But Validate
Digital certificates are, at their heart, all about trust. A certificate, issued by a trusted authority provides assurance that a particular website belongs to the organization claimed on the logo. If...
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With Users Like These, Who Needs Hackers?
There is a fine line between innocent mistake and reckless behavior, and, writes Andy Patrizio, a distressing number of employees are pole vaulting over that line.
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Microsoft's shutting down TechNet. Here's a few alternatives worth considering.
Microsoft is winding down it popular TechNet subscription service, which makes some Windows sysadmins feel as if the company is abandoning them -- or at least trying to gouge them. But in reality,...
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Document Databases Relying on NoSQL Find an Enterprise Home
There's a revolution under way in the way documents are managed, reports Mike Vizard. Open-source platforms are rapidly replacing a host of proprietary systems as part of the rise of NoSQL databases in...
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Who Really Needs Developers, Anyway?
Do you need a large, dedicated, in-house development team? Or do you need to ax your development team entirely? There are good arguments to be made for both choices, and the correct answer really...
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New Storage Technology Will Likely Change the Way We View Tiers
Data storage is undergoing a massive transition. Old ideas are being challenged and replaced and the implications change more than storage.
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Two Sides to the Datacenter Power Issue
Data centers use a lot of power, maybe too much, but at the same time they've made great efficiency gains. "The mushrooming data center industry in America is being painted as a villain in power...
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Fixing IT's Gender & Race Problem
We've got a problem in IT, writes David Wagner: We don't have enough women or people of color in engineering. The reason is that CIOs and business leaders aren't taking it seriously enough, and they're...
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Comic: The Iterative Process
Perhaps this gives a new meaning to putting out fires at work...
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How I Became a CIO: Anne Agee, University of Massachusetts
Most recently Anne Agee was CIO of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she led a major rip-and-replace of nearly the entire university's IT infrastructure -- including knocking down the old...
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US Open Tennis Tournament: Behind the IT Curtain
While Serena Williams stretches her hamstrings, the network at the US Tennis Association (USTA) stretches its bandwidth. The US Open, one of the biggest tennis competitions of the year -- and two of...
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The Pain of Performance Reviews
We all hate employee performance reviews, but some are worse than others. Here's a walk through some of the most common performance review concepts and how they compare to each other. It isn't a...
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American Cloud Providers Need Bigger European Infrastructure
NSA spying is hurting American cloud providers abroad, argues Pablo Valerio.
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CIO Lessons From Power Tools
Controlling a rotary hammer involves skill, practice, balance, and very strong thumbs. Oddly enough, realized Curtis Franklin, being a successful CIO has exactly the same requirements.
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7 Things CIOs Need to Know About Microsoft's Nokia Buy
A lot has been going on in Redmond. David Wagner summarizes the things you need to know about how the changes will affect your enterprise. You can only hope that the CIO groks this stuff.
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Science! A plastic that could mean unbreakable phones
Researchers affiliated with Duke University have created a new type of plastic that becomes stronger when torn, stretched, or otherwise abused. They hope to use this new material for all sorts of cool...
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Google Chrome Lets Users Toss Their Cookies
Google's anonymous identifier for advertising (adID) will replace first- and third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. That's good news for privacy.
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The future of sick days
We like to think that the Internet of Things will improve our quality of life. That is, until we want to take a sanity-break day….
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Data Explosion Won't Trouble European Wi-Fi
The European Commission is asking member states to release more spectrum for Wi-Fi to reduce costs of high-speed Internet for mobile users and to make WiFi more accessible and more affordable to...
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Windows 8.1 Boot to Desktop: What sysadmins should know
One new capability in Windows 8.1, built into the operating system, is a native mechanism to allow Windows to be booted directly into desktop mode. Brien Posey looks into its practicalities.
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FDA Advances Smartphone Apps to Be Regulated as Medical Devices
The FDA has set the ground work that will ultimately lead to an avalanche of new healthcare apps. Although there are thousands of mobile healthcare apps, most are information-based only. This change...
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Beating the Budget Blues
CIOs often whine about how they are under a budget squeeze. But the way IT execs think about budgets and how they manage them and work with their teams to address budgetary issues goes a long way...
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