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	Infoblox releases enhanced network automation features Asked where they'll start their cloud use, many IT organizations say internally. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Discover the Mishaps of Digital Channels Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels - Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other smart touches - has often occurred in a piecemeal way. Read More In this Issue IBM at 100: How Big Blue helped redefine corporate architecture What CFOs care about besides your IT budget 15 ways iPad goes to work Cloud CIO: In defense of corporate IT Research tackles powering the virtual data center 9 ways to stop your outsourcing deal from leaking money 4 tips for using Facebook legally to conduct background checks Viridity calculates energy cost of applications BMC buys software from vendor that lost IBM legal battle Corero (Top Layer) enhances DDoS defense to stop new types of attacks WHITE PAPER: AirMagnet, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Enterasys Networks, HP, and Motorola The 2011 Wi-Fi "Cheat Sheet" Achieving Ethernet parity with Wi-Fi is no small task. Learn how leading vendors are building tool and tweaking architectures to: • Add capacity to APs • Avoid traffic bottlenecks • Identify and eradicate interference and its sources • Enable converged management and policy setting across Wi-Fi and wired environments Read now! IBM at 100: How Big Blue helped redefine corporate architecture Initiated by IBM President Thomas Watson Jr., Big Blue's building boom cemented the company's role as a leading patron of modern design and architecture, beginning in postwar America and continuing into the 1980s. Read More What CFOs care about besides your IT budget CFOs need to understand more than the costs and financial benefits to adopting cloud and consumer technologies. They're also on the hook to protect against risk. Read More 15 ways iPad goes to work Apple's iconic iPad reports for work in all sorts of strange places, from archaeological digs in Pompei to movie sets in Hollywood to cockpits in the sky. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle BPM SOA and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck? The challenges faced by today's government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied. Fortunately for them, the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices—business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0—is providing a solution. Learn more. Cloud CIO: In defense of corporate IT The threat that cloud computing poses to CIOs and IT professionals' careers does not stem from cloud computing rendering corporate IT departments irrelevant. Rather, it comes from CIOs' and IT professionals' failure to face the revolution that cloud computing brings and to assume much more important positions inside their firms. Read More Research tackles powering the virtual data center Virtualization makes power management more complicated, but one researcher says he has the solution. Read More 9 ways to stop your outsourcing deal from leaking money Experts estimate that an outsourcing deal can lose up to 30% of its value each year due to poor governance. Here's how to plug the holes. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel Xeon Processors The HP Power Advisor Tool Reduce power consumption with ProLiant right-size power supplies. In HP's latest generation of ProLiant servers, power is both critical and flexible. With the new HP Power Advisor you can measure power usage as you configure servers and racks in a downloadable tool. Learn more! 4 tips for using Facebook legally to conduct background checks As more people create Facebook profiles (500 million and growing), and sign on to the many social media sites available today, hiring managers are finding they have new opportunities to get background information on job candidates. Read More Viridity calculates energy cost of applications Viridity has updated its data center infrastructure management software to let businesses keep track of how much electrical power is being consumed by individual applications and lines of business. Read More BMC buys software from vendor that lost IBM legal battle BMC Software has acquired a range of IMS (information management system) database software and related customers from Neon Enterprise Software, which recently lost a legal battle with IBM over a mainframe-related product called zPrime. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More Corero (Top Layer) enhances DDoS defense to stop new types of attacks In the IT world, security is a chess game. There's a constant back-and-forth volley between the IT defenders and the bad guys, with both sides using escalating efforts. Corero (Top Layer) puts DDoS attackers in check with an enhanced DDoS defense that is purpose-built to stop new kinds of attacks that would slip past most firewalls and IPS tools. Read More
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