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  Career Watch: A little less stress for IT workers?

  A survey finds that stress remains high, but it's down significantly from last year.

  By Jamie Eckle | 06 May, 2013 10:08

  Tags: Networking, education, training, IT careers, GFI Software, IT management, industry verticals, CIO, Education/Training, management

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  BYOD, or else! Companies will soon require workers use their own smartphone

  A Gartner study released today predicts that by 2017, half of all companies will require employees to bring their own smartphones for work purposes.

  By Lucas Mearian | 01 May, 2013 20:13

  Tags: smb, Mobile/Wireless, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), small business, Networking, wireless, mobile, CIO, management, Gartner

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  Enterprise mobility demands an innovative approach to IT organization

  Perhaps nowhere else in IT is the opportunity to innovate as rich as it is with enterprise mobility. Smartphones and tablets offer the chance to improve everything from employee productivity to how you interact with customers and achieve competitive advantage. But most enterprises are trying to implement modern mobility strategies using existing IT organizational structures.

  By Jon Kuhn, director of product management, Enterprise Mobility Group, Symantec | 25 April, 2013 18:26

  Tags: enterprise mobility, Networking, wireless, chief mobility officer, chief mobile officer, mobile, IT management, CIO, consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobile application management, consumer electronics, Mobile device management, smartphones

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  CIO at hospital caring for Boston Marathon bombing victims and suspect shares lessons learned

  Dr. John Halamka, CIO at the hospital where Boston Marathon bombing patients and suspects have been treated over the past week, has shared in a blog post Tuesday lessons learned from an IT and security management perspective.

  By Bob Brown | 23 April, 2013 19:21

  Tags: reddit, remote secure access, risk management, Networking, John Halamka, infrastructure management, Boston Marathon bombing, DMC, Beth Israel bombing, business management, CIO, management

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  Viewpoint: When it comes to enterprise security, is it better to focus on compliance or risk?

  A CIO once quipped, "Security isn't hard, compliance is." And in fact many companies focus their security efforts on meeting compliance requirements. But if you are audit compliant, have you in fact addressed all of your risks, or are you just kidding yourself? Is it better to focus on the risks presuming that doing so will cover you off on the compliance side? Network World Editor in Chief put the question to two practitioners, both of whom come down on the side of risk.

  By Christian Anschuetz and Dan Abdul | 22 April, 2013 10:56

  Tags: compliance, security, Wide Area Network, CIO, data protection

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  The Grill: NFL CIO uses analytics to improve player safety

  Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO for the National Football League, is driving innovation with analytics, using sensors to track players on the field and monitoring player health and safety with lab analysis of helmets.

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  Tags: National Football League, Networking, CIO role, IT Leadership, IT management, intel, CIO, IT transformation, Blackberry, management

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  Sizing up open source: Not so simple

  Choosing open-source software is more complicated than picking traditional software. Is your IT department prepared to contribute code fixes to the community?

  By Stacy Collett | 06 May, 2013 10:09

  Tags: open source, App Development, applications, software, CIO

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  The Grill: James Turnbull driving change in healthcare IT

  Jim Turnbull, CIO at University of Utah Health Care, says mobile technology as the next big opportunity for getting patients more involved in managing their healthcare.

  By Mary K. Pratt | 06 May, 2013 10:08

  Tags: management, Networking, CIO role, healthcare IT, IT Leadership, IT management, CIO

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  How to nab a data scientist job

  How exactly do you make it to the data scientist big leagues? As it turns out, there is no one right path. Instead, it's largely a scramble out there on the big data field. Insider (registration required)

  By Julia King | 06 May, 2013 10:08

  Tags: Networking, education, training, IT careers, IT management, North Carolina State University, industry verticals, CIO, McKinsey, Education/Training, management

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  Supply chain 2013: Stop playing whack-a-mole with security threats

  IT can never take all the risk out of a supply chain, but it can help organizations minimize their vulnerability in a world of new threats.

  By Howard Baldwin | 30 April, 2013 10:45

  Tags: Gov't Legislation/Regulation, Emerging Technologies, regulation, security, hardware systems, government, CIO

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