The essential strategy guide on the consumerization of IT

	Big data creating big career opportunities for IT pros | SAP rolling out cloud-savvy version of Business One
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	The essential strategy guide on the consumerization of IT There may be someone in a dark corner of IT who hasn't heard about the consumerization of IT, that growing trend toward active user involvement and even control over aspects of the business's technology portfolio. By now, most of IT is aware -- sometimes painfully so. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Why Run Windows Server Apps on AWS? Top 5 Reasons: 1. No New Hardware, 2. Get Started in Minutes, 3. Use Your .NET Skills in the AWS Cloud, 4. On-Demand Test Environments, and 5. Use your Existing Microsoft Licenses. Learn more with on-demand webinar. Watch now! In this Issue Big data creating big career opportunities for IT pros SAP rolling out cloud-savvy version of Business One File-sharing services maintain their popularity -- at work Companies can use gamification as doorway to innovation RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Leadership CIO Leadership Announces Keynote EVP & CIO Alan Matula Don't miss EVP and CIO Alan Matula share his perspectives on how a multi-sourcing IT strategy can effectively drive cost efficiencies and innovations that support Shell's business strategies worldwide at The CIO Leadership Event, April 29 - May 1, 2012 at The Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort in Florida - Register Today! Click to continue Big data creating big career opportunities for IT pros New job opportunities are emerging for IT professionals in the field of "big data," the term used to describe how corporations gather vast amounts of real-time data about their customers and analyze that data to drive decision making and increase profitability. A new job title -- data scientist -- is all the rage. A data scientist typically has a background in computer science or mathematics as well as the analytical skills necessary to find the proverbial needle in a haystack of data gathered by the corporation. Read More SAP rolling out cloud-savvy version of Business One SAP has created a multi-tenant version of its Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite, which will be sold exclusively through partners as Business One OnDemand. Multi-tenancy is a software architecture commonly used by SaaS (software as a service) vendors, wherein multiple customers share the same instance of an application, but with their corporate data locked away from each other. This allows for operational cost savings over traditional hosting, and provides the ability to apply general product upgrades to many customers at once. Read More File-sharing services maintain their popularity -- at work When technicians from Palo Alto Networks installed one of the company's firewalls in a Fortune 100 company, they were surprised when the device began examining a massive data stream in and out of the network. A server within the company was exchanging up to 300 GB per day of data from one of the major browser-based file-sharing networks, one of dozens of websites on the Internet where content such as movies and music are offered and shared without the permission of the copyright holder. Read More Companies can use gamification as doorway to innovation Gamification, or the use of game mechanics in applications to engage users and solve problems, is something humans today are wired to love. And video games are creating a generation of multitasking young adults who are not only smarter than past generations but are better problem solvers and innovators. That innate ability to solve problems, which comes with the promise of a gaming-style reward of greater social status, will become a standard for solving complex problems that even the most supercomputers could not hope to achieve. Read More
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