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	File transfer solutions take pressure off email How often does this happen to you? You attach a file to an email and hit Send. Then the dreaded message shows up. Either your or the recipient's email system can't handle the file because it's too large. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: China Telecom Americas Faster Data Traffic to China FOR LESS Shift to dedicated access to China's Internet — and its customers — with faster, special-rate IP network connections from China Telecom Americas. If you're a North American company with at least 15% of your total data traffic moving to and from China, call 1-866-692-8872 for details. Offer expires July 20, 2011 Click to continue In this Issue A debate: Apple iPad or BlackBerry Playbook? Calculating Virtualization, Cloud Costs: 4 Approaches Top 5 things to do before buying more security technology Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Why BMC is the ITSM Market Leader Some vendors may force you to make difficult upgrades. Not us. BMC offers Rapid Results implementation services and BMC Remedy OnDemand, a SaaS version of the industry-leading IT Service Management suite. Read more to learn the top reasons why BMC Remedy offers true ITSM with out-of-the-box ease. Read More Today! A debate: Apple iPad or BlackBerry Playbook? The iPad has taken the world by storm, but RIM hopes to parlay its dominant Blackberry presence into a meaningful tablet advantage with the new PlayBook. Which tablet wins? Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Gartner Reviews IT Service Desk Vendors Gartner's 2010 Magic Quadrant report found IT organizations struggle to align service support and business needs – despite a competitive vendor market. Read Gartner's analysis to see why BMC is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for the IT Service Desk. Read More Today! Calculating Virtualization, Cloud Costs: 4 Approaches For IT departments wanting to do chargebacks or cost-justification, figuring virtualization and cloud services ROI is tricky, at best. Experts outline four methods you can use to break down costs and returns. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Mythbuster on Deploying Virtualization Technology When it comes to creating a private cloud, server virtualization is only one piece in the puzzle. Discover the missing pieces and assess your readiness to delivering cloud computing in a new whitepaper. This paper, from Forrester and Brocade, reveals where to invest your IT budget in order to achieve a private cloud. Learn more! Top 5 things to do before buying more security technology Las Vegas --Throwing more technology at security threats as they crop up is not the best way to go if the goal is to protect the most valuable data at the best price, attendees at Interop were told this week. Read More Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps How did Microsoft win over the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina for an Office 365 migration? Better license packaging on a bigger ecosystem of apps at an affordable price - an advantage Microsoft can often wield over cloud rival Google. Read More
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