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	Convirture unveils enterprise cloud management console Convirture, a provider of open source, cross-platform virtualization management tools, has announced new software designed to allow enterprises to manage private clouds, hybrid clouds and virtualized infrastructures from a single console. Read More VIDEO: Oracle Oracle Exadata: World's Fastest Database Machine Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President, Systems Technology, and other members of the Oracle Exadata development team describe the unique features that make Oracle Exadata the World's Fastest Database Machine. Click to continue In this Issue What do top CIOs make? IM, SharePoint tools will edge out email, CIOs say With new CEO, AMD could fix missed opportunities Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs Was this the e-mail that took down RSA? Scariest IPv6 attack scenarios Small businesses fail to address data risks in server virtualization Residents cut energy bills 11% in smart meter test The other big resignation: Slashdot creator "CmdrTaco" steps down The challenges of competing with cloud computing providers RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: WildPackets Network Visibility and Insight Delivered Isn't it time you saw what your network was doing before analyzing how it is doing it? WildPackets Compass, a free utility, pinpoints the network traffic that requires your attention. See how easy it is to take packet traces from any software, including Wireshark, and visualize exactly what is going on in the network before diving in deeper. Click to continue What do top CIOs make? CIOs and CTOs at major companies including GM, Boeing, Home Depot and FedEx took home multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2010. See what each of these senior IT leaders' pay packages is worth, once the salaries, bonuses, stock options and perks are tallied. Read More IM, SharePoint tools will edge out email, CIOs say Email's popularity is waning, and within five years it could be eclipsed by other communication tools favored by employees, new research suggests. Read More With new CEO, AMD could fix missed opportunities With a new CEO finally at the helm, AMD can begin to move forward in what has become an Intel world. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Moving to a Cloud-based Delivery Model Help Desk software as a service is attractive to many IT departments. It offers the same benefits of traditional IT help desk solutions, in addition to reducing capital expenses, accelerating implementation, and providing easier upgrades. This paper explores considerations for implementing IT service management in-house or as a service. Read Now! Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston. "Our data center stayed up but our office didn't have power for a week," recalls McCown, who is the director of IT for the firm. While employees in other locations had access to the data center, the central office was offline and out of the communications loop. Read More Was this the e-mail that took down RSA? "I forward this file to you for review. Please open and view it." As a ploy to get a hapless EMC recruiter to open up a booby-trapped Excel spreadsheet, it may not be the most sophisticated piece of work. But researchers at F-Secure believe that it was enough to break into one of the most respected computer security companies on the planet. Read More Scariest IPv6 attack scenarios Experts are reporting a rise in the number of attacks that take advantage of known vulnerabilities of IPv6, a next-generation addressing scheme that is being adopted across the Internet. IPv6 replaces the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Managing Service Quality Across the Infrastructure With zero tolerance for latency of web applications and a near total dependence on technology in the workplace as the norm, an unpredictable and unreliable infrastructure is too big a risk for today's speed of business. View Now Small businesses fail to address data risks in server virtualization A recent Symantec survey of adoption of virtualization within small businesses revealed that most companies are failing to take even the most basic steps to reduce risks to their data. Read More Residents cut energy bills 11% in smart meter test Some residents of a small town in Iowa have cut their electricity use by 11% in a test that combines smart meters with cloud-based data analytics. Read More The other big resignation: Slashdot creator "CmdrTaco" steps down One day after Apple CEO Steve Jobs shook the tech industry by announcing his resignation, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda rocked the world of tech news by announcing he is leaving the Slashdot website he founded 14 years ago. Read More The challenges of competing with cloud computing providers In discussions about cloud computing and in comments readers leave on my blog posts, I commonly get statements along the lines of "Yeah, this cloud computing stuff sounds great, but at the end of the day, you have to have an IT guy solving problems like they've always done." In personal interactions, I often hear this sentiment portrayed as, "Public cloud computing is fine for the SMB and startup market, but enterprises aren't ready to move to that model." The tone of much of this feedback is that anyone who advocates cloud computing is at best naive or at worst incapable of understanding the real details of IT. Read More
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