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Scot Petersen, Editorial Director, SearchCIO-Midmarket
Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery. Make sure you know exactly where your applications are running, that your server controls are intact and that your service provider contract provisions are "virtualization- friendly." You want to enjoy all the benefits of a virtual data center, not worry about whether your compliance controls are adrift in the computing "cloud." Included in this e-book: - Capacity planning eases path to virtualization
- Consolidation via virtualization can offer quick ROI
- Four strategies for compliance in a virtualized data center
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| The 2008 Salary Survey Results |
Our exclusive look at salaries for midmarket CIOs. Find out what's rising, what's flat and what compensation really looks like for information technology executives in the midmarket. Included in this e-book:
- Cautious optimism pervades midmarket
- What if you want a bigger raise?
- Exit strategies
- Future plans: Headhunters' advice
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| Striking Data Gold |
The call for business intelligence grows louder as companies collect more and more data. We've drilled down to give you the latest strategies on using valuable business data that may already be sitting in storage. In this e-book:
- Defining the business advantage
- Rectifying data quality issues first
- Valuable data bubbles up at Korbel
- Data mining helps solve departmental problems
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| Data Breach! |
As data loss from careless employees or thieves becomes ever more common, every organization should have a plan to notify its constituents if personal information is lost. Here's the latest on data breach-related legislation, how to create a data security plan and whether you, the CIO, should be in the public eye if the undesirable happens:
- The art of fessing up
- Bills for a federal breach notification law languish in Congress
- CIOs under fire and in front of the camera
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| Mobile Matters |
From laptops to smartphones, virtual private networks (VPNs) to Short Message Service, every midmarket business must manage a growing number of mobile technologies, many of them creeping over from the consumer sphere. Here's our roundup of the hottest issues and how CIOs are grappling with them:
- When the personal meets the professional
- Laptop theft easily preventable while on the road
- Hardball tactics required to manage non-email messaging
- VPNs offer more than secure remote access
- Smartphone envy creates chaos for CIOs
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This was first published in October 2009