Friday, April 22, 2011

Functional Teams In A Cloudy World | Federal Telework Guidelines

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Friday, April 22, 2011

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TOP STORY
- Creating Functional Teams In A Cloudy, Virtualized World

ALSO SEE
- Federal Telework Guidelines Released

ANALYTIC REPORTS
- Going All In On Virtualization a Smart Bet

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- Cloud Computing: Why Managing Performance Matters

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
- RIM BlackBerry PlayBook Teardown

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG
- No Happy Ending To The Fable Of 'Zodiac Island' And The Cloud Storage Provider

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- Private Clouds For Development: Exposing and Solving the Self Service Gap

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- Creating Functional Teams In A Cloudy, Virtualized World
CIOs need to help their staff understand that they're no longer infrastructure managers. They're service managers. We'll explore that topic at the InformationWeek Analytics Live track at Interop.
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- Federal Telework Guidelines Released
The Office of Personnel Management has set up policies and instructed several agencies to collaborate on security policies around teleworking.
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- North Carolina Urged To Outsource Tech Ops
State-sponsored IT review finds that $76 million could be saved by handing off key services to private contractors and centralizing others.
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The Best of Interop Awards recognize exhibitors that have made significant technological advancements in specific category areas. The winners in each category represent the products that the judges believe have the most significant technical impact on their segment, and are helping to move business technology forward. This year, more than 100 candidates were under consideration for Best of Interop and here we present the 2011 finalists in each category.
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- IPv4 Depletion Not Boosting IPv6 Adoption
Slow rate of adoption is caused by technical and design hurdles, lack of economic incentives, and a lack of IPv6 content, found Arbor Networks study.
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- Dell Refreshes SMB Servers, Storage
Manufacturer adds Intel's Sandy Bridge processors to its entry-level and midmarket servers, while rolling out two storage devices aimed at firms dealing with massive data growth.
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- Going All In On Virtualization a Smart Bet
We discuss how IT can manage users, security, and availability; calculate TCO; and decide on an outsourced vs. in-house implementation.
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- RIM BlackBerry PlayBook Teardown
UBM TechInsights takes a look under the hood at yet another tablet. Inside RIM's new BlackBerry tablet is the TI OMAP 4 processor, a six-axis gyro and some other fun hardware goodies.
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Collaboration is one of today's strongest business trends, fueled in part by advances in (and employees' experiences with) social media. The ability to exchange ideas and communicate about activities has proven wildly popular in the social sphere -- why not in the business one as well? And recognizing this demand, vendors are making tools available that enable teams to keep track of each others' progress on a group project, exchange information about tasks and contacts, and otherwise work together more smoothly and conveniently. At the same time, though, the trend toward worker mobility continues to grow. More and more workers find themselves working out of the office, on the road or telecommuting, and keeping in touch via their smartphone. These 10 mobile apps will keep the collaborative momentum going no matter where you are.
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FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG
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- No Happy Ending To The Fable Of 'Zodiac Island' And The Cloud Storage Provider
By Howard Marks
Alas, the tales spun by vendors, analysts and other cloud computing cheerleaders that paint the cloud as an infinitely expandable, reliable and affordable kingdom--where "The winter is forbidden till December/And exits March the second on the dot"--are as fantastical as Camelot itself. WeR1 Production, which produces the syndicated children's show "Zodiac Island," is learning this lesson after Binky the sheep and Sonny the tiger went to the bit bucket.
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- BufferBloat And The Collapse Of The Internet
By David Greenfield
It seems that every few years there's yet another prognosticator that the Internet is about to collapse. Once it was the stellar growth in bandwidth demand driven by the phenomenal increase in Internet-connected devices. At other times, it was the lack of Net neutrality (see this video). Still other times, it was sinister attacks on BGP or the fact that we've run out of IPv4 addresses.
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- Aruba Networks Brings Layer 3 To Wireless Mesh Networks
By Lee H. Badman
Wireless mesh networks have always been big on promise, but often disappointing on performance. It's no secret that the marketing folks for wireless vendors can be a bit adventurous with range and throughput claims, and that many wireless mesh products just don't live up to the hype. Part of the problem has been the traditional repeater-style "lose half your throughput with every hop" principle, which can be exacerbated by poor network design. Aruba Networks addresses pretty much all of the potential mesh wireless pain points with its recently introduced AirMesh product line, and even non-Aruba customers should take note.
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WEBCASTS
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- Private Clouds For Development: Exposing and Solving the Self Service Gap
This webinar will present a blueprint for creating private development clouds that enables IT to provide infrastructure as a service to developers. With an emphasis on build-test-deploy tasks, we will show how task and workflow automation, resource management, and tool integrations allow development teams to effectively use a private cloud infrastructure and run these tasks in a shared environment.

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