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	Opscode serves up cloud infrastructure automation appliance By now many enterprise IT managers have come to this stark realization: If they don't become more like a cloud services provider internally, they'll lose critical application developers to the cloud. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Network Instruments VoIP issues? 10 Gb problems? VM troubles? App breakdowns? Get to the core of your network, applications, and infrastructure problems from the inside out. Download the free demo and three popular white papers now. Click to continue In this Issue The 6 hottest new jobs in IT 'The more the merrier' doesn't apply to management tools Smartphones and tablets create huge corporate security challenge Must-have data center utilities: Picks by IT pros 'Hold on -- my WLAN is tweeting me' Don't dismiss community college grads with degrees in information assurance Using enterprise data to fuel new business ideas Survey finds many disappointed in virtualization, cloud computing NetApp upgrades management software for cloud systems Getting started with document management 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. The 6 hottest new jobs in IT IT job seekers have real reason to hope. No fewer than 10,000 IT jobs were added to payrolls in May alone, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics, reflecting a steady month-over-month increase since January. And in a June survey by the IT jobs site Dice.com, 65 percent of hiring managers and recruiters said they will hire more tech professionals in the second half of 2011 than in the previous six months. Read More 'The more the merrier' doesn't apply to management tools You may be yearning to buy management tools from yet another vendor, but NetForecast's recent survey of performance management best practices and their results shows that using more management tools is not necessarily better. Most high-performing enterprises use two or at most three vendors. Read More Smartphones and tablets create huge corporate security challenge Adapting security and management for the new generation of mobile devices -- everything from the Apple iPhone and iPad to Google Android devices to name a few -- is turning out to be a huge corporate challenge. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel 3PAR Storage: Tailor-Made for Virtual Infrastructures As users have adopted virtual server technology for their less critical applications, many are now seriously considering the idea of moving their Tier 1 production applications. Done properly, virtualizing these types of applications will bring compelling benefits, including increased IT agility and lower costs of ownership. Read now Must-have data center utilities: Picks by IT pros Not everything is handed to data center managers on a silver platter. Sure, a few administrative tools arrive on freshly produced discs right from the server vendor. But there are some indispensable tools you can get from third parties, open-source providers or even IT colleagues with some extra time to develop apps. Read More 'Hold on -- my WLAN is tweeting me' Several network vendors have built network management applications for popular smartphones and tablets. Enterasys Networks is one such vendor, but it also went a step further recently when it announced Project Isaac, which integrates its NMS with your favorite social media interfaces. Read More Don't dismiss community college grads with degrees in information assurance The CAE2Y program was established to meet the needs of cybersecurity professionals – not all of whom have baccalaureates and advanced degrees. Vera Zdravkovich, senior adviser for the CAE2Y program, emphasizes that our society needs all dimensions of diversity in the cybersecurity field. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle CIO Challenges: The Best Defense is a Good Offense Read this white paper to learn how CIOs are building a foundation for a much more agile business that holds the potential for working in a more flexible way and enabling faster innovation by actively evaluating and experimenting with newer technologies. Learn more. Using enterprise data to fuel new business ideas Well-managed enterprise data can lead to new products, such as a recommendation service from Bundle, a Citi spin-off. Read More Survey finds many disappointed in virtualization, cloud computing Too often, organizations aren't getting as much out of virtualization and hybrid cloud computing as they first thought they would, according to a Symantec survey of 3,700 information technology managers in 35 countries. Read More NetApp upgrades management software for cloud systems NetApp announced upgrades to its OnCommand management software for storage, which now allows it to plug into most leading cloud management systems. Read More Getting started with document management Time is money, and time spent searching for lost paperwork is money down the drain, as is money spent making unnecessary copies. Read More
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