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• Lessons on leadership from a space aviator

  Chris Hadfield transposes lessons from his experiences as an astronaut and commander of the International Space Station, into the need to prepare and react to complex change.

• 12 tips to help SMBs select and manage vendors

  Small business owners and experts share their strategies on how to build a successful, lasting partnership with suppliers/vendors.

• What it’s like to be CIO for a not-for-profit

  Richard Parry of Stand Children’s Services Tu Maia Whanau taps disruptive technology to reduce IT ‘cost centres’

• More tech trends to disrupt data centres

  This week CIO is exploring the top tech trends expected to disrupt data centres in the future, as well as IT departments, business units and the c-suite, including shifting skillsets and business strategy.

• 5 tech trends that will impact data centres in the future

  At Gartner’s Infrastructure, Operations & Data Centre Summit in Sydney, research analyst, David Cappuccio, detailed new trends that are likely to impact IT operations and data centres of the future.

• John Holley: Leadership lessons from the frontline

  Back from his stint as planning officer for the UN Mission in South Sudan, John Holley shares how the Army’s approach to strategic planning and operations can apply to the business environment.

• Christchurch law firm adopts VDI after earthquake

  After catastrophic earthquakes in Christchurch toppled its New Zealand law office, Duncan Cotterill implemented desktop virtualization to provide stronger disaster resilience, according to the law firm’s CIO at the time.

• In pictures: CIO roundtable - data management and business continuity

  CIOs gathered in Brisbane recently to discuss data management, business continuity and backups.

• NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service

  Iron Mountain <a href="http://www.ironmountain.com/Company/Company-News/News-Categories/Press-Releases/2011/November/28.aspx">today announced</a> a secure cloud-based archive service for medical data based on NetApp's grid-architecture, object-based, storage software.

• Virtual Machine cloud replication and restoration to boom

  By 2014, almost one in three midsize businesses will be using a recovery-as-a-service (RaaS) with the ability to backup and restore virtual machines (VMs), according to Gartner.

• At Houston Bank, Disaster Recovery Goes Virtual

  The Project: Implement a hypervisor-based replication system to provide more streamlined business continuity and disaster recovery for Woodforest National Bank's virtualized data center.

• Duqu, Stuxnet link unclear

  A report by Dell SecureWorks on Wednesday debunked the idea that the newly discovered Duqu Trojan is related to last year's Stuxnet worm or was created by the same authors.

• Target.com's second site crash could become e-comm nightmare

  For the second time in six weeks, Target's Web site crashed Tuesday, and that is scary news for any major retailer heading into the holiday shopping season.

• Quantum offers $5K deduplication appliance for SMBs

  Quantum this week unveiled a backup appliance for $5,139 that offers smaller businesses 8TB of capacity and data deduplication capabilities typically reserved for its higher end hardware.

• Wash your hands: ATMs are germ havens

  Swab tests recently conducted of public surfaces in six major cities revealed that ATMs are among the worst carriers of illness-causing germs.