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	Microsoft puts Windows Server instances in the cloud Microsoft bolstered Windows Azure with several new capabilities today, including the ability to run Windows Server instances on Azure, theoretically making applications portable between the data center and Microsoft cloud platform. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Gartner Gartner Data Center Conference, December 6-9, Las Vegas, NV Gain unbiased advice, best practices, and sound management approaches for better managing your data centers' agility, optimizing costs, navigate critical next steps in emerging technologies like virtualization and cloud computing, and deliver world-class services. For details and to register now go to gartner.com/us/datacenter In this Issue IT graduates still find it hardest to get jobs, survey shows Oracle-SAP suit won't clear third-party support fog Intel, Toshiba, Samsung aim to halve chip circuitry size Microsoft buys chip company Canesta CA retools automation portfolio Train station photo tests your destination imagination 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 IT graduates still find it hardest to get jobs, survey shows IT graduates are most likely to struggle with finding a job, a new report has shown. Read More Oracle-SAP suit won't clear third-party support fog No matter the outcome of Oracle and SAP's sprawling intellectual-property dispute that goes to trial Monday, it will likely fail to clear up questions that have major financial implications for software vendors and customers around the globe. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NetApp Virtual Event on Shared IT Infrastructure Is your IT ready for the future? Join us for a virtual event to learn about new NetApp® technologies, products, and solutions that can make your IT ready for the future. With a shared infrastructure built on NetApp, IT can deliver unparalleled efficiency and flexibility to your organization. Register Now! Intel, Toshiba, Samsung aim to halve chip circuitry size Three big NAND flash competitors have formed an unlikely alliance to develop the smallest semiconductors in history -- NAND flash memory made with circuitry just 10 nanometers wide. Read More Microsoft buys chip company Canesta Microsoft is acquiring Canesta, a company that has developed chips that allow natural user interactions with machines, furthering Microsoft's goal of creating more natural user interfaces. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. Read now! CA retools automation portfolio CA Technologies unveiled its newly reorganized tools for automating the provisioning and management of physical, virtual and cloud-based IT resources. Modular implementation options let companies add capabilities at their own pace. Read More Train station photo tests your destination imagination Network World Test Alliance partner Joel Snyder posted this photo to his Facebook page over the weekend with the caption: "Seen at Rome Ostiense station ... From the destination, I'm guessing that this must be a private train." Read More
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