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COVER STORY
Get Into the M&A Game
16 Don’t get left out of corporate merger-and-acquisition discussions. CIos can get involved by
putting together playbooks that help ensure that deals produce the intended benefits.
Redistricting
For the Masses
21 Why should politicians have all the
gerrymandering fun? lA County’s cloud service
lets voters participate.
Grand Opening
For App Stores
24 The arrival of tablets gives enterprise I T
an opportunity to set up in-house app stores —
for convenience and control.
HEADS UP | 2 Analytics
help focus safety programs
on high risks. | The Fortune
1000 are avoiding public
cloudstorage. | 4 3Dchips
could move Intel into mobile. |
Capacity concerns push data
centers toward outsourcing.
its I T toolbox. | 8 Microsoft’s
antitrust case comes to a close.
take care in choosing words to
describe our relationships with
project sponsors.
NEWS ANALYSIS
6 Google adds a netbook to
OPINIONS | 14 Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols thinks the
Windows business desktop is
dying. | 30 John D. Halamka
has advice on dealing with
VUCA — volatility, uncertainty,
complexity and ambiguity. |
36 Paul Glen says we should
DEPARTMENTS
10 The Grill: Andy pratt
of The lowell Whiteman
School | 28 Security
Manager’s Journal: Tracking
the RoI on SIEM | 32 Career
Watch | 34 Shark Tank
