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	BMC touts success with self-service workload automation tool At Morneu Sheppell, a Toronto-based firm providing human resource consulting and outsourcing services, the ability to automate workloads has been critical to the company's ability to support continued growth. 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WHITE PAPER: Oracle A Technical Overview of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Discover how to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable, incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection with this unique commercial solution. Learn more. 5 top social media security threats Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn increasingly are being used by enterprises to engage with customers, build their brands and communicate information to the rest of the world. Read More Getting a handle on chaos and complexity There's a lot of interest these days in the notion of "controlling complexity," particularly when it comes to networks. It's obvious why: Complexity can translate directly to increased operational costs and decreased reliability. This perspective is summed up perfectly by some of the IT professionals I work with, who say things like, "I have no idea what's actually in my network anymore." Read More The hubris of years: IT prowess can't be measured only by time on the job I've been doing quite a bit of interviewing lately (again) and there's one thing that really smacks me in the face whenever I do this. And that is how much everyone seems to prize how long they've been doing something over how well they do it.  And in fact, when I'm giving my tech screenings, the number of times I ask someone a fairly easy question that they can't answer is staggering. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Read More Today! Worst hackers ever? We always hear about the big data breaches, the most devastating viruses, and the most denying of the denial-of-service attacks. But for every hacker with that level of deviousness, there are a thousand wannabes out there. Some get ridiculed, some get arrested. Read More 10 things we like and don't like about Check Point's R80 endpoint security product Check Point's Unified Endpoint Security Management tool offers powerful single client for comprehensive endpoint security. Read More Preparing for World IPv6 Day World IPv6 Day (June 8, 2011) is approaching in about a week. This will be a landmark day for IPv6 Internet connectivity and IPv6-capable content providers. You will want to be prepared for this historic day in networking. This article will give you the background on what is happening on that day and how to help your organization be ready for the fun. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation Best Practices for Data Performance on Storage Area Networks Because SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating system's file system, SAN is unaware of file fragmentation and uable to solve this issue. Performance suffers. This white paper details in clear terms how, where and why Diskeeper data performance technology should be used to ensure maximum SAN performance and optimum data response time. Read more. To be breached is human Recent surveys hint at why it is so hard to protect networks and IT systems from attack: Our IT systems are designed, built, managed and used by us. Read More New malware scanner finds 5% of Windows PCs infected One in every 20 Windows PCs whose users turned to Microsoft for cleanup help were infected with malware, Microsoft says. Read More Cloud CIO: The two biggest lies about cloud security Survey after survey note that security is the biggest concern potential users have with respect to public cloud computing. Here, for example, is a survey from April 2010, indicating that 45% of respondents felt the risks of cloud computing outweigh its benefits. CA and the Ponemon Institute conducted a survey and found similar concerns. But they also found that deployment had occurred despite these worries. Read More Can you have too much security? Is there such a thing as too much security? Read More
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