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• How to Be a Better Leader in a Disaster

  Linda Goodspeed, vice president of IT at Nissan North America, was attending a global IT meeting at her company's head office in Japan on March 11 and was caught in the magnitude 9.0 earthquake. The quake was among the top seven most powerful ever recorded and the strongest ever to hit the country. "People were diving under desks. Women were crying. We could see fire outside," she says. "Window blinds were moving three feet to the left and to the right. I thought the building would fall apart."

• VW's 'Rolling Computers' Need Fresh IT Insight

  Volkswagen is on the road to building cars infused with intelligence, connectivity and many new and creative capabilities.

• Google Adds Netbook to IT Toolbox

  Google moved to push further into corporate IT shops when it unveiled the Chromebook netbook computer at its Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco earlier this month.

• Guide to transforming your data center for cloud computing

  Cloud computing and virtualization are forcing dramatic changes in the way data centers must be designed and run, from the servers to the storage to the network infrastructure.

• Microsoft's cloud licensing changes: what you need to know

  Starting July 1, Microsoft customers will be able to use their current license agreements to move server applications from internal data centers to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc3/051809-cloud-faq.html">cloud computing</a> services, and contracts signed after that date will offer the same benefit.

• Google Apps Tops Exchange at Cinram

  Cinram International is on the verge of completing a nearly yearlong migration from Microsoft Exchange to <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215736/Google_denies_lying_about_Apps_certification">Google Apps</a> , a move that an IT executive at the maker of DVDs, Blu-ray discs and other media called a "no-brainer."

• Why You Should Stop Worrying and Let End Users Have iPads

  About 15 years ago, there was a movement in IT to reduce platforms. CIOs wanted to simplify environments that included the odd minicomputer from the 1980s, Unix and Windows servers, PC and Mac desktops and a raft of applications of mixed vintage.

• Virtualization leaps to apps, mobile devices and databases

  Here, there and -- yes -- everywhere, <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/210/Virtualization">virtualization</a> is headed toward ubiquity.

• Oracle's Itanium Move Shakes Up IT Agendas

  Technology executives at companies running Oracle databases and applications on Hewlett-Packard servers say that Oracle's decision to <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214958/Oracle_stops_developing_software_for_Intel_s_Itanium_chips">stop supporting Intel's Itanium chips</a> could force them to undertake expensive hardware and software upgrades.

• IT Looks for New Tools to Exploit 'Big Data'

  As tools for real-time and batch analysis of so-called <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215033/Big_data_to_drive_a_surveillance_society">big data</a> emerge, IT operations are gaining the ability to track the activities, habits and movements of customers with great precision.

• iPad 2 Provokes Anxiety in IT

  As consumers and business users <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214239/iPad_2_opens_to_big_lines">flocked to buy the new iPad 2</a> earlier this month, some IT executives were cringing.

• SSD Security Issues Surprise Experts

  Until the results of a study emerged late last month, few storage experts suspected that it would be more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives than it would be to erase data from <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9134468/Review_Hard_disk_vs._solid_state_drive_is_an_SSD_worth_the_money_">hard disk drives</a> .

• Four Ways to Mitigate Mobile and Cloud Data Leaks

  CIOs push data into the cloud. Employees post ever more personal and professional information on social-networking sites. And as the WikiLeaks organization talks about releasing secret information about Swiss bank accounts-on top of rumors that it may disclose documents from a large bank in the United States-CIOs find themselves reviewing internal policies and answering questions about security from their CEOs.

• Chevron, TD Bank Hope to Tap Tablets' Potential

  Information technology executives at Chevron Corp. and TD Bank NA are hoping that tablets like Apple Inc.'s iPad and the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209323/RIM_to_launch_LTE_HSPA_PlayBook_tablets_by_year_end">upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook</a> from Research In Motion Ltd. can significantly improve their companies' work and decision-making processes.

• Will cloud backup services put tape backups in trash can?

  Tape backup is dead. Long live tape backup.