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• Cisco, Citrix team on desktop virtualization package

  Hoping to ease a typically arduous deployment process, Citrix and Cisco Systems are jointly offering a package for running a large number of virtual desktops across an organization.

• Blue Coat brings in new CEO

  Blue Coat Systems has brought in a new CEO, spinning the change as a way to free up outgoing boss Brian Nesmith from the daily grind of managing the company to instead work on product strategy.

• VMware vCloud Director gets Zenoss monitoring app

  After setting up a cloud infrastructure, an organization needs tools to monitor that it is running as smoothly as planned.

• HP acquires automation vendor Stratavia

  HP has acquired Stratavia, which makes <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100307-stratavia-data-center-automation.html">database and application automation software</a>, for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced today.

• Google Australia chief promoted to US

  Two and a half years after he left Fairfax Media to lead Google down under, the search giant's Australian chief, Karim Temsamani, has been promoted to be Google's head of Global Mobile Sales in its Mountain View headquarters in the US.

• Roberto Cavalli follows the cloud trend with Google

  Designer fashion house Roberto Cavalli has decided to standardises its email systems by moving to the Google cloud.

• Corporate Governance

  The CFO plays a central role in good corporate governance

• Java supplants IT security as most sought-after tech skill set, survey finds

  Java development has supplanted IT security as the most difficult skill set for hiring managers to locate.

• Project management: 4 steps to getting things on track

  Now is a perfect time of year to reflect on the current state of all the key projects that were approved in January. At this stage, you and your management team should have enough data to know if each initiative will successfully meet its objectives. You may already know there are projects in your organization that are not positioned to succeed, yet they still receive funding and staff.

• Why Is the CFO Still Boss of IT?

  What makes a CFO uniquely qualified to be heading up IT?

• CFOs to CIOs: You Work for Me Now

  Who's the top IT decision-maker inside companies today: The CIO, right? Ahhh, no. The CEO? Guess again. The CTO? Nope.

• Oracle engineer reveals latency mysteries with heat maps

  While data-center managers have long used heat maps to help determine where to best position racks of servers and cooling units, this mode of visualization can also be handy for better understanding system latency, argues an Oracle engineer in the July issue of Communications of the ACM.

• Give Slackers a Kick in the Pants

  Always select one important professional development skill or competence that your staff member needs to develop or improve.

• LinkedIn communications at center of unprecedented lawsuit

  In a first-of-its kind lawsuit, an IT staffing firm has accused one of its former employees of violating the terms of her non-compete agreements through her conduct on LinkedIn.

• Don't micromanage

  Eric P. Bloom, president and founder of Manager Mechanics talks about "letting go"