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	10 cloud management companies to watch Managing the cloud is a tricky endeavor. Here are 10 tools and services that can help. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Network Configuration & Change Management for Dummies Read this and learn the NCCM "basics," key challenges associated with NCCM, the IT and business benefits of automating NCCM, and the top 10 reasons why automated NCCM creates value, reduces business risk, and can help ensure business goals are met. Read now In this Issue DARPA expands insider threat research Defcon: The security penetration testing quagmire The accidental revolution: How Apple's iPhone transformed enterprise IT How is the Cisco 76% off Nexus sale going over with customers? Not well. Clearwire's LTE push highlights growing momentum Google Music vs. Amazon vs. Apple's iCloud vs. Spotify vs. Rdio vs. ... The S&P Downgrade: A Lesson in Analysis Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT Talent wars: Are your IT staffers being poached? CIOs Lack Adequate Cloud Computing Knowledge RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Internap Will Your Internet Connectivity Provide a Positive ROI? Availability and speed are critical performance metrics for the connectivity services which underpin virtually every online application or service. This white paper uncovers a simple Return on Investment (ROI) approach, enterprises can leverage to quantify the value of best-in-class connectivity. Download now. DARPA expands insider threat research The ability to detect insider threats and behaviors from a plethora of live data is the goal of an ambitious research program being undertaken by the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Read More Defcon: The security penetration testing quagmire The relationship between CISOs and security penetration testers is anything but clear cut and raises ethical issues for both parties, a Defcon crowd heard from a former CISO. Read More The accidental revolution: How Apple's iPhone transformed enterprise IT There's a good article over at Fortune about how Apple's iPhone -- always intended as a consumer device -- opened the floodgates for Apple's invasion of the enterprise with mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now How is the Cisco 76% off Nexus sale going over with customers? Not well. Over the last week I have received many emails about a story on the net. The story is all about Cisco giving Purdue University a 76% discount on the Nexus Product line. How they got to that number was a combination of Cisco math (discount, trade in on obsolete Cisco Switches) of which every customer by now is used to. Read More Clearwire's LTE push highlights growing momentum LTE (Long Term Evolution) has picked up steam in the last few weeks, with operators moving forward and auctions taking place, helping the technology become a global standard. Read More Google Music vs. Amazon vs. Apple's iCloud vs. Spotify vs. Rdio vs. ... The cloud music age is upon us. After years of loading MP3s onto iPods and portable hard drives, there are now several options for streaming that same music to any device with an Internet connection, while gaining access to many more songs we don't already own. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Four Steps to Dynamic Workload Management In the beginning, IT ran on one platform - the mainframe. Workloads were predictable and stable, and we could schedule accordingly. But then came Unix, AS/400, Windows and a multitude of other platforms, all with accompanying workloads. Learn More! The S&P Downgrade: A Lesson in Analysis As I write this, stock markets around the world continue their recent and very sharp and painful slide, this time motivated by the downgrading of US debt by S&P last Friday. Regular readers of this blog may not have a big interest in matters of global finance, but such is vital to the success of our business and personal lives. Read More Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds have adopted a number of practices that are useful not just for government IT but all manner of private and public company IT groups as well. These include everything from dedicated funding for green products, to improved employee training and reducing use of paper. Read More Talent wars: Are your IT staffers being poached? Dan Herrington says his first inkling of a brewing IT talent war came early this spring, when he noticed that "college kids weren't accepting our offers on the spot." Read More CIOs Lack Adequate Cloud Computing Knowledge Cloud computing adoption is increasing rapidly, but CIOs' ability to structure and manage these deals is not keeping pace, according to a second quarter 2011 survey by KPMG Sourcing Advisory. Read More
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