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	Tarpipe: Social media meets workflow When you're trying to maximize your social media efforts, one of the big challenges is to minimize the amount of labor involved in keeping all of the services you're driving updated. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks ROI of Application Delivery Controllers How modern offload technologies in Application Delivery Controllers can drastically reduce expenses in traditional and virtualized architectures, with a fast ROI. Learn More! In this Issue 10 hot honeycomb apps for business Serve 'Customer 2.0' well or perish Why the Windows 8 App Store is good news for IT Picture this: Google, MIT getting PCs and smartphones in sync 10 must-have mobile apps and Web services for a successful summer vacation Azure review: Looks juicy but not yet fully cooked Has business intelligence failed? Most IT pros don't fear losing their jobs to the cloud Mozilla ships Firefox 5, holds to new rapid-release plan Atlanta hospital looks to cloud for email fix HP tests personalized video delivery to consumers WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Wide Area Application Architecture and Exchange 2010 Massive consolidation can lead to single points of failure which could interrupt service of critical applications. ESG believes that this risk should be addressed by building applications on a Wide Area Application Architecture (WAAA) foundation, spreading applications across multiple data centers. Learn More! 10 hot honeycomb apps for business You have the Android Honeycomb tablet. Now it's time to put it to work. Read More Serve 'Customer 2.0' well or perish Businesses must start preparing to serve the emerging tech-savvy Customer 2.0 class that's graduating from college looking to spend money with companies that understand their social networking world. Read More Why the Windows 8 App Store is good news for IT Slowly, Microsoft is opening the kimono on Windows 8, revealing features that, up to now, seem consumer-oriented. There are more reportedly on the way, and the one that has my interest is the rumored App Store. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Understanding Salesforce.com's Internet Application BMC software and salesforce.com have joined forces to deliver BMC ServiceDesk on Remedy Force, an ITIL help desk, self service, and inventory management solution on the Force platform. This paper explains the patented technology that makes the Force.com platform fast, scalable, and secure. Read More Today! Picture this: Google, MIT getting PCs and smartphones in sync An MIT computer science grad student and a Google researcher have joined forces to build software that makes it a lot easier to move open tasks and apps between PCs and smartphones. Read More 10 must-have mobile apps and Web services for a successful summer vacation With these essential apps, you can avoid road rage, bedbug-infested cabin fever, and other travel maladies while maximizing your relaxation time. Read More Azure review: Looks juicy but not yet fully cooked Our review of Windows Azure was an intense experience. We'd waited and waited, and waited to review Azure after it was announced. Then more stuff was announced. We were trying to pin what Azure was. We eventually decided that cloud and Azure were really different things. While Microsoft was waiting and busily roadmapping the product, the industry shaped what Azure has become, which is a hybrid model of PaaS, developer platform, and dashes of IaaS. Read More WEBCAST: F5 Networks Architect the Network This is a public sector focus webinar showing how to Architect the Network for a Highly Available SharePoint 2010 Deployment. Learn more! Has business intelligence failed? Is your business keeping up with the huge advances in predictive BI technologies that can help your company grow? Read More Most IT pros don't fear losing their jobs to the cloud Most people in the IT industry are sure that enterprise cloud computing usage will double in the next two years. But they also feel that IT professionals will not be displaced from their enterprise jobs because of the cloud. Read More Mozilla ships Firefox 5, holds to new rapid-release plan Mozilla today delivered the final version of Firefox 5, the first edition under the new faster-release regime it kicked off earlier this year. Read More Atlanta hospital looks to cloud for email fix An Atlanta hospital switches to Microsoft Exchange in the cloud to update an email service that had become a headache for the medical staff and the IT team. Read More HP tests personalized video delivery to consumers Hewlett-Packard's research organization in Bangalore has developed an application that will help consumers create personalized channels of online video content on their Windows computers. Read More
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