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• 5 reasons IT pros should be paranoid

  IT organizations have a lot on their plates, and keeping the data center humming is only part of the equation. Factor in the threats coming at IT from every direction, and you can see why IT pros have ample reason to be paranoid. The invasion of consumer devices into the workplace, the rush toward cloud computing, the constant vigilance to prevent data spills, all while managing a meager budget in an era when your career can be cut short at any time can cause even the most level-headed IT pro to start looking over his shoulder.

• How to roll out full disk encryption on your PCs and laptops

  Hardly a week goes by when some organization or another doesn't lose some laptops and face a litany of IT security questions. One that always comes up: Were the systems' disks fully encrypted?

• A CIO's journey to proactive IT

  <strong>A client relationship management culture for IT? Why bother?</strong>

• Career advice: Training on the cheap

  P&amp;G's Jim Fortner Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader Jim Fortner

• Stupid data center tricks

  A university network brought to its knees when someone inadvertently plugged two network cables into the wrong hub. An employee injured after an ill-timed entry into a data center. Overheated systems shut down after a worker changes a data center thermostat setting from Fahrenheit to Celsius.

• The short list for HP's next CEO could be long

  Analysts are developing a short list of possible candidates to replace former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned Friday. But it's worth noting that Hurd's name didn't come up often, if at all, as a contender in 2005, when he was tapped for the HP job.

• Forrester: Open-source BI has pros and cons

  A new Forrester Research report finds that while a number of open-source BI (business intelligence) offerings are providing many of the capabilities enterprises require, certain shortcomings remain.

• HP could make mark in mobile technologies with next CEO

  With Mark Hurd's sudden resignation, Hewlett-Packard Co. has a golden opportunity to hire a CEO with business savvy in mobile, wireless and smartphone areas, helping give the mature technology behemoth a needed and vital strategic direction.

• The lions of IT, the mainframe pros, learn new post-recession approaches

  BOSTON - Gray-haired system administrators dominate the hallways and meeting rooms at the IBM Share conference, and not always by choice. Businesses haven't been hiring a lot of new IT workers and, in some cases, employees have put off retirements as a result of the downturn.

• IT hiring continues to improve, according to surveys

  Hiring for IT jobs continues on the upswing in the U.S. and Canada as recessionary gloom gives way to cautious optimism, according to various recent polls of employers, who cite networking, security, virtualization and database skills as among the most sought-after.

• Are biases keeping you from hiring the best job candidate?

  Even in a recession, Bobbie Wilbur is always trolling for good people to fill IT positions at her tech services firm in Oakland, Calif.

• Job ads up in second quarter of 2010: Asia Job Index

  Job advertisements in Asia recovered in the second quarter of 2010 with some sectors regaining the levels attained during the pre-financial crisis period.

• Creative excuses for tardiness: Online survey

  Career Watch: Creative excuses for tardiness

• IT innovation: How to avoid being a one-hit wonder

  There were no big brainstorming sessions, rah-rah team meetings or executive committees convened to devise a plan to drive FiOS TV customers away from using call centers in favor of self-service ordering, the more cost-effective option.

• IDC: SaaS momentum skyrocketing

  Interest in the SaaS (software as a service) delivery model is growing to the point that by 2012, almost 85 per cent of new vendors will be focused on SaaS services, according to new research from analyst firm IDC.