New Architect level certifications focus on virtual and converged environments

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	New Architect level certifications focus on virtual and converged environments Organizations of every size and description are rapidly adopting new data center technologies, including virtualization and cloud computing. Truly transforming a data center, however, requires more than setting up a few virtual machines. When companies need to radically redesign their data centers using the new converged infrastructure platforms and cloud computing models, they need experienced people to guide this process. New architect level certifications from EMC and HP help companies select the appropriate people to guide the transformation process. 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 Symantec unveils backup and storage appliances IBM will not be a networking company IBM supercomputer wins first Jeopardy dust up Gartner's Magic Quadrant disses Amazon cloud From the abacus to the iPod: Computer museum opens $19M exhibition WEBCAST: Dell Webcast: Is Virtualization Right for SMBs? You've heard that large companies embrace virtualization to consolidate their data centers, reduce costs, and improve operating efficiency and IT service levels. However, your data center only has tens of servers, not hundreds or thousands. Should you consider virtualization as well? View this webcast to learn more. Register now! Symantec unveils backup and storage appliances Symantec today introduced its NetBackup and FileStore appliances with an eye toward offering customers choices in whether they want to mix and match software- and hardware-based backup and storage products according to business needs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Long-Term Data Protection and Retention IT organizations of all sizes contend with a growing data footprint with more data to manage, protect and preserve for longer periods of time. Read Now IBM will not be a networking company One of the topics that we frequently wrote about in 2010 was the ongoing coalescence of the IT industry around a few key players. We are going to use this newsletter to provide more insight into how one of the players, IBM, is likely to leverage its acquisitions to position itself in the IT market. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Storage Virtualization isn't About Storage With real storage virtualization, according to the report, you can improve operational efficiency and drive down costs. And you can do this without sacrificing – or while even improving flexibility – giving you the ability to "continuously migrate" applications as a part of normal business operations. Read Now IBM supercomputer wins first Jeopardy dust up IBM Friday is set to pit its Watson supercomputer against past champions in the game of Jeopardy to be help at the company's research center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Read More Gartner's Magic Quadrant disses Amazon cloud Gartner's Magic Quadrant calls Amazon's cloud computing service 'visionary' but 'unproven.' Read More From the abacus to the iPod: Computer museum opens $19M exhibition The Computer History Museum this week opens a $19 million, 25,000-square-foot building expansion and exhibition titled: "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing." Read More
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