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IT Strategy Digest Content from TechTarget's global network for CIOs and IT Leaders | July 16, 2014 SALARY SURVEY Take the TechTarget IT Salary and Careers Survey Staff, SearchCIO Take our 2014/2015 survey to see what your peers are making now and expect to make in the coming year, what you should be paying your IT staff, and whether it might be time to tweak your career path.  (SearchCIO.com) Advertisement NEWS   Five common disaster planning and recovery pitfalls to avoid Testing the efficacy of your enterprise's disaster planning and recovery strategy is crucial to avoiding common pitfalls. In this slideshow, learn about five DR follies to avoid. (SearchCIO.com) Sound Off: How often does your organization test its disaster recovery processes?   REPLY TO THE AUTHOR     Silicon Valley goes back to high school for tech talent CIOs chasing top tech talent might want to look past age on a resume; plus millennials could automate their own demise and high-tech veggies in Searchlight. (SearchCIO.com) Sound Off: What traits do you look for when recruiting for talent?   REPLY TO THE AUTHOR     CIOs embrace hybrid computing, warts and all CIOs have come to see the value of a hybrid computing environment that manages some applications and systems in-house and relies on external public cloud services for managing other data. That doesn't mean there aren't challenges. (SearchCIO.com) Sound Off: What's your top challenge in moving to a hybrid computing environment?   REPLY TO THE AUTHOR     Apache Spark in-memory prowess ignites interest in big data circles Data scientists look to Apache Spark to ask the really big data questions and get answers faster. (SearchCIO.com) Sound Off: Is Spark the next MapReduce?   REPLY TO THE AUTHOR   EXPERT ADVICE   Hacker mindset a prereq for security engineers, says Markley CTO In this video, Markley Group CTO Patrick Gilmore talks about why today's ideal security engineer is someone who is paranoid, aggressive and really liked to hack stuff as a teenager. (SearchCIO.com)   Hopper: Crunching big data, making travel easier Startup Hopper has set its sights on disrupting the travel business, with a hefty assist from big data and an aggressively agile work environment. (SearchCIO.com)   Disaster prevention and mitigation strategies: Strike early and often Prepare for IT disasters of any kind with this Essential Guide, which offers CIOs advice on prevention, mitigation and business continuity. (SearchCIO.com)   CISOs need to help the business visualize IT security threats Security expert Richard Stiennon explains how CISOs get it wrong when explaining IT security threats to the C-suite and offers a tested visual approach. (SearchCompliance.com) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from IT Strategy Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget CIO and IT Management Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2014 TechTarget. All rights reserved.