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Last month Microsoft unveiled its broad vision for the Future of SharePoint, and has now announced that modern document libraries are rolling out to all Office 365 commercial customers worldwide. You can learn more about how to use modern libraries in this article, “What is a document library?“

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SQL Server has been the enterprise database with the fewest security vulnerabilities six years running.
Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2016 is a critical edition to your data security strategy so you can be sure that your sensitive data stays safe.

Click here to learn more about Always Encrypted from Microsoft.

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What challenges are CIOs facing today? ‘The Harvey Nash / KPMG CIO Study 2016’ is the largest global IT leadership survey and it set out to find answers to this question.

One of the study’s findings is that CEOs are more likely to advocate CIOs spending more time on projects that make money versus those that save money.

Other findings include:

• “More CIOs report directly to the CEO (34 percent) than at any time in the past decade, rising 10 percent over last year.”
• “CIOs with a direct report to the CEO are also the happiest (87 percent report job fulfilment).”
• “Women in senior IT leadership roles has risen by a third.”
• “One in five companies now employs a Chief Digital Officer, almost tripling the number since 2014.”

This research offers important advice for CIOs and IT leaders and you can request a copy from the survey’s official website here. Alternatively zdnet.com provides a comprehensive summary of the findings here.

Source: hnkpmgciosurvey.com and zdnet.com

SQL Server 2016 is now generally available.

“SQL Server 2016 is the biggest leap forward in Microsoft data platform history with features that increase performance, simplify management, and transform your data into actionable insights—all on a database that has the least vulnerabilities of any major platform,” says Microsoft.

Learn more about it here in the official release announcement from Microsoft.

Source: Microsoft SQL Server Blog