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	Cisco bets state-of-the-art data center on UCS Cisco bet big on its UCS products for data centers – and now it's going "all in" with a massive, resilient and green data center built on that integrated blade architecture. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Cisco VP talks of data center strategy Can HP change its culture? ERP woes blamed for lumber company's bad quarter Back Up and Restore Outlook Will Oracle acquire a networking company? U.S. bans printer cartridges from in-bound flights WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG How Desktop Virtualization Changes the Game for IT Virtualization has busted out of the data center and overspread the desktop and application worlds. Citrix has emerged as a major innovator in virtualization solutions. Click here to read an Executive Viewpoint featuring Citrix CEO Mark Templeton. Click to continue Cisco VP talks of data center strategy Cisco Vice President of IT John Manville discusses the company's data center makeover strategy, the migration to the company's own Unified Computing System, the benefits of cloud and the new IT organizational structure with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix. Read More Can HP change its culture? In the last couple of newsletters we looked at how Cisco and Oracle are positioning themselves to be at the center of what they believe to be the integrated approach to how enterprise IT is provided in the future. In this newsletter we will look at HP. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint Achieving Unified Communications Network options are critical to ensuring a converged network. This podcast outlines the critical components to achieve unified communications and provide users with an advanced mobile experience. Read Now ERP woes blamed for lumber company's bad quarter Lumber Liquidators is attributing a weak third quarter to a complex SAP implementation, saying the project imposed a significant drain on worker productivity. But the problems appear to be largely related to employees having trouble acclimating to the new system, versus malfunctions in the software itself. Read More Back Up and Restore Outlook Tomaladaca asked the Windows forum for the best way to backup and then restore all of the information in Outlook. Read More WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Online Server Backup Checklist View this Webcast today and learn how SMBs can save money, time and IT resources by backing up critical data to the cloud. This online server backup checklist for SMBs outlines how cloud adoption is quick, secure and affordable, scaling with business growth and eliminating daily backup hassles. Learn more! Will Oracle acquire a networking company? There is a lot of momentum behind the belief that the future of IT is based on tightly integrating the key components of IT such as networking, servers and storage. In our last newsletter we discussed Oracle's rumored acquisition of EMC.  We are going to use the next three newsletters to continue the discussion of Oracle's possible acquisition of EMC and look at what some of the other industry giants are doing. Read More U.S. bans printer cartridges from in-bound flights Ink, toner cartridges over 16 ounces prohibited in wake of bombing attemptsThis one wasn't difficult to see coming. The Transportation Safety Administration has just announced a ban on ink and toner cartridges holding more than 16 ounces on flights bound for the U.S. in response to the attempted bombings Oct. 29 that utilized such containers. A statement from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano reads: Read More
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