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• 8 classic IT hiring mistakes and how to avoid them

  From writing dated, irrelevant job descriptions to accepting a less-than-ideal candidate because the work is piling up, classic hiring mistakes are just waiting to trip up managers.

• The year in tech: It's all about the cloud and SDNs

  2012 has been a year of re-invention among the tech industry’s biggest players, with Microsoft overhauling many of its key product lines, most notably Windows, while also boldly entering the hardware market with Surface tablets. HP slashed its workforce as CEO Meg Whitman reshaped an industry icon that has gone through many shifts in recent years. The transformation to the cloud continued practically unabated (save for those pesky outages!) and suddenly every company seemed to be a software defined something or other, or was snapping up an SDN company.

• CIOs Need to Learn New Ways of Thinking

  In 2013, IT leaders should tap into the latest research about business transformation, collaboration and innovation, say columnists Madeline Weiss and June Drewry.

• Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway?

  Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing.

• Juniper CEO Johnson talks software, the company's recent challenges and key future directions

  Juniper Networks had a challenging 2012 as new product cycles were slow to take hold and global economic conditions took a toll on sales. The company also undertook a restructuring that saw 500 positions cut and the departure of four executive vice presidents. As the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company looks to re-energize its business, particularly with an eye towards enterprises and data centers, CEO Kevin Johnson shared his lessons learned in leading Juniper since 2008, as well as what's ahead for the company in a discussion with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Johnson also shared his thoughts on the hot topic of software-defined networks (SDN), Juniper's role in enabling cloud and competing against the industry's 800-pound gorilla, Cisco.

• Fave-reads: 5 must-read books for IT career growth

  Let's face it -- when it comes to IT professional development, books might be the last place people turn. With webinars, online forums, blogs, Web sites, bootcamps and social media, books would seem like a last resort.

• How IT can become a driver of business growth

  IT departments don't live up to business-driving potential.

• Get ahead of the BYOD wave

  Why fight employees' constant barrage of bringing in their own devices. We are far past that point, it is time to accept it and find a way to make it BYOD work within the confines of your network.

• Game on: Enterprise apps gain gaming features to boost usage

  Adding a competitive component to enterprise software improves adoption and real-time decision-making, gamification advocates say.

• 3 Ways CIOs Work With Sales to Create Innovative Solutions

  How IT leaders are recruiting ideas, building trust and embracing lessons learned when building tools sales teams want to use.

• How CIOs Are Making Security an Enterprise Necessity

  Information security is often seen as more trouble and cost than it's worth. Until it fails. How can CIOs truly make it part of enterprise risk management?

• How IT Hiring Managers Can Avoid the Holiday Rush

  Kristen Lamoreaux says it's better to stock your talent pool throughout the year than to make a hasty hire in the frenetic days of December

• Tech job market on the upswing

  To see the state of the job market for tech workers, just look at the headlines over the past few months:

• BYOD: Where the costs are

  Few technology trends have inspired as many misgivings -- and as much misinformation - as BYOD, or "bring your own device." Is the idea of allowing employees to purchase and use their own laptops and mobile devices a security nightmare? A productivity boon? A drain on the service desk? And perhaps the biggest question of all, a cost-savings nirvana?

• CIOs Must Exploit Smartphones, Tablets and Cloud Services

  IT departments were slow to adopt the PC. Adam Hartung says CIOs need to learn from that mistake and be bold about adopting cloud services and mobile computing.