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Remembering Microsoft’s other co-founder: How Paul Allen’s vision sparked a software revolution

GeekWire

At Microsoft, we tried to balance simplicity with power, Allen wrote in his 2011 memoir, Idea Man. I considered the trade-off worthwhile if an extra feature made a program or device more functional. Paul Allen speaks with GeekWire’s Todd Bishop about his book, Idea Man , at Seattle’s Town Hall in 2011.

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Celonis sues SAP for anti-competitive data access practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Celonis was launched in 2011. The following year, the Munich-based company participated in SAPs Startup Focus program the starting point of a long-term business relationship between SAP and Celonis.

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Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs

GeekWire

As a new commercial-centric era dawns for the International Space Station, Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space station program — and for the program that’s working to send Starliner capsules there and back. Vollmer previously served as chief engineer on the space station program. NASA awarded Boeing a $4.2

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CIO Blogs for July 2011

A CIO's Voice

How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 by Isaac Sacolick. Reinvent Your Training Methods by Chris Curran. Available does not equal best by Eric D. Transitioning IT from a technical focus to a business focus by IT BS Watch. Free Answers From Google On How CIOs Can Be Better Managers by Jim Anderson.

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Enhance Your Security Posture: Doing Four Things Can Reduce Unauthorized Penetrations by 85%

CTOvision

In October 2011, the SANS Institute announced that the U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for 2011 went to the Australian Defence Signals Directorate (that’s right, the U.S. Washington DC, October 24, 2011. The SANS Institute announced today that the Australian Defence Signals Directorate has won the 2011 U.S.

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies have been responding of late by offering volunteer time off and by partnering with organizations that could benefit greatly from the added help of programs and staff time. Since then, LinkedIn has “grown into one of the major enterprise partners for Year Up,” says Audrey Rhodes Market, the Year Up program manager at LinkedIn.

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At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

.” “Cloud alone hasn’t caused these impressive numbers, though that is absolutely part of it; top-performing partners were visionaries that took on cloud technologies before their peers,” said Darren Bibby, program vice president of Channels and Alliances Research, IDC. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142).