Leadership Lessons from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

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	Leadership Lessons from Apple CEO Steve Jobs Great leaders like Apple CEO Steve Jobs are supreme visionaries and marketing geniuses, says executive leadership expert Paul David Walker, author of Unleashing Genius (Morgan James Publishing, 2008). In order to be better leaders, CIOs need to become more like them. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: China Telecom Americas Five of a Kind in Mainland China? You Win! Five or more sites in Mainland China? Reach out to Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada or the U.S. for less! Deal yourself a winning hand with all your voice, video, and data traffic on a global Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Network from China Telecom Americas. Click to continue In this Issue H&R Block Shifts from PCs to Virtualized Thin Clients RIM Unveils New BlackBerrys: 5 Facts You Need to Know How Cloud Computing Will Change IT: 6 New Predictions Creating a cloud SLA from diagnostic data Aligning business and IT Enterprise knowledge sharing in a Web 2.0 world WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies CIOs Feel the Pressure to Optimize the Online Experience In this exclusive survey, CIOs weigh in on the business impact of application performance. This white paper presents the survey results and offers guidance on building a business case to optimize the customer experience with consistently excellent application performance. Learn More H&R Block Shifts from PCs to Virtualized Thin Clients H&R Block's (HRB) virtualization project--a CIO 100 Award winner this year--is putting thin clients in the tax preparer's thousands of retail stores in an effort to simplify its operating environment and cut expenses. The change should also help it to better compete with chains such as Jackson Hewitt, as well as with independent tax preparers and software-only rivals such as TurboTax and Intuit (INTU). Read More RIM Unveils New BlackBerrys: 5 Facts You Need to Know CIO.com's BlackBerry black belt Al Sacco breaks down RIM's latest BlackBerry smartphones, three of which were made official today--the BlackBerry Torch 9810, Torch 9850 and Torch 9860--and offers up notable features and facts about each of the five known devices in RIM's upcoming 2011 BlackBerry lineup. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Application-Aware Network Performance Management Riverbed® Cascade© stacks up extremely well against the competition. How well? In particular, Cascade outperforms other application-aware network performance management solutions in such important areas as product strength and cost efficiency. Read Now. How Cloud Computing Will Change IT: 6 New Predictions CIO.com's Virtualization and Cloud blogger Bernard Golden presents a clear picture of what the IT world will look like when cloud computing becomes the status quo. The future of IT has never looked more promising. Read More Creating a cloud SLA from diagnostic data As a CSO and CIO you may be wondering why I crafted a diagnostic related to understanding your most critical web products. The original purpose of the diagnostic was to discern which applications and how applications are ported successfully to a service provider's cloud. The diagnostic determines which cloud IaaS products (storage components, network components, and virtualization machines) are needed for an application. It addresses the platform components (server/operating system and web server) in the PaaS layer. Lastly, it focuses on the SaaS software application. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Wide Area Application Architecture and Exchange 2010 Massive consolidation can lead to single points of failure which could interrupt service of critical applications. ESG believes that this risk should be addressed by building applications on a Wide Area Application Architecture (WAAA) foundation, spreading applications across multiple data centers. Learn More! Aligning business and IT Jose Ruiz, CIO and director of programs at Northrop Gruman, gives the keynote address at IT Roadmap Denver. Read More Enterprise knowledge sharing in a Web 2.0 world How blogs, Del.icio.us, RSS feeds, e-mail, intranets and other Web 2.0 assets can be tied together to share corporate knowledge. Read More
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