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	Few data scientists happy with current state of 'big data' analytics A poll of attendees of the largest gathering of statisticians and data scientists in North America reveals a near-unanimous belief that "big data" analytics needs improvement. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Delivering Information you can trust This whitepaper rovides an overview of the current data quality problem and describes how IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server for IBM System z® can become your foundation for data quality and make a big difference in helping you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. Read Now In this Issue Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 365 10 cloud management companies to watch VMware licensing change opens doors for competing providers Microsoft expects Internet Explorer exploits within 30 days 6 tools that help businesses tame Twitter Wall Street: Software more valuable than oil Almost half of all PCs will be running Windows 7 by year-end The great data center network debate Skytap automates cloud deployments HotLink aims to ease managing mixed virtual environments WHITE PAPER: BMC Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Read More Today! Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft and Google agree that hosted productivity suites offer unique benefits for evolving business needs. Of course the two behemoths traveled very different paths to reach this conclusion, and bring different strengths to their respective offerings. Which one is right you? Read both sides and decide for yourself. Read More 10 cloud management companies to watch As enterprise IT organizations consider how to approach the cloud - public, private, hybrid - there's no shortage of challenges to sort through. Read More VMware licensing change opens doors for competing providers When VMware announced last week that it would loosen the radical change in price structure it announced only a month ago, it was doing more than mollifying a few disgruntled customers. It was responding to a revolt among customers, analysts say, even at large companies that rarely considered competing virtualization platforms due to VMware's lead in the technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Data Center Infrastructure Design and Management Does efficiency have to come at the expense of availability? Not according to this paper, which outlines the four data center infrastructure trends that are reducing design, operating and management costs while improving data center performance. Those trends are Infrastructure Management, Eco Availability, Flex Capacity and High Density. Learn more Microsoft expects Internet Explorer exploits within 30 days Microsoft's monthly patches include a critical fix for seven holes in Internet Explorer which, if left unpatched, are considered "likely to see reliable exploits developed within the next 30 days." Read More 6 tools that help businesses tame Twitter Twitter can be a powerful business tool, not to mention a valuable source of metrics data and feedback. If not managed properly, though, Twitter tweets can quickly become overwhelming -- sifting out the nonsense to get to the nuggets of useful information can become a full-time job. Thankfully, there are a variety of tools you can employ to help your business manage Twitter and cut through the noise. Read More Wall Street: Software more valuable than oil The tech industry's answer to this week's stock market roller coaster was delivered on Tuesday by Apple Inc, which briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company in the U.S. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Tips to Investigate App Performance Issues Check out this video as "Jack," the network manager, deals with a barrage of slow network complaints from users throughout the company. See how Riverbed Cascade collects flow records from routers, switches and other devices and correlates them with packet inspection to get full application identification at Layer 7. Learn more! Almost half of all PCs will be running Windows 7 by year-end Microsoft appears to be getting its wish in terms of seeing Windows XP get put out to pasture. IT research firm Gartner predicts that Windows 7 will become the leading operating system worldwide by the end of this year, with 42% of all PCs running the new operating system. Read More The great data center network debate Data center network design guidelines and technologies that IT organizations have used for the last decade are now being questioned. The good news is that IT organizations have a lot of new and emerging technology and design options that they can implement. The bad news is that the breadth of available options can be overwhelming. Read More Skytap automates cloud deployments Skytap, a provider of cloud automation software, this week unveiled orchestration and configuration products designed to enable enterprises to easily create virtual environments in the cloud. Read More HotLink aims to ease managing mixed virtual environments Startup HotLink has exited stealth mode and launched SuperVISOR for VMware, designed to allow IT departments to mix and match hypervisors from different vendors and manage them all using VMware's vCenter platform. Read More
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