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IT recruiting a casualty of the recession

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IT recruiting a casualty of the recession
In the face of a lousy economy, hiring freezes and expense cuts, many companies have decimated their recruiting teams. But as IT staffs ramp up efforts to fill open positions and compete for key talent, this lack of recruiting resources could hurt them. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Avaya

Social Media and the Contact Center for Dummies
Grasp the opportunities and challenges of working within the new social media market landscape. The book describes the commercial tools, as well as free ones, organizations use to manage the massive stream of information they collect from various social media channels. Read Now

WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu

New TPC-E Benchmark Results Revealed
A "glue-less" design, where no additional hardware is necessary to run all eight CPUs and all memory slots enable the shortest route between processors, memory modules and I/O hubs inside a single chassis. It's just one of the many reasons Fujitsu servers are leading the way in TCP-E benchmarks and overall price/performance. Read now!

More Essential Gadgets for the Road Warrior
These accessories, chargers, hotspots and cases will make business travel easier, more productive and more fun. Read More

Xsigo unveils virtual fabric for data centers
New software from Xsigo Systems is designed to link all the servers in a data center virtually, allowing IT managers to reconfigure virtual machines and other resources without carrying out traditional networking tasks. Read More

Google looks to protect Android with Motorola patents
Motorola has been losing smartphone market share. Google seems to be paying not for the company's phones, but its patents, in a move to protect the Android mobile OS from patent attacks. Read More


WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

CIOs Feel the Pressure to Optimize the Online Experience
In this exclusive survey, CIOs weigh in on the business impact of application performance. This white paper presents the survey results and offers guidance on building a business case to optimize the customer experience with consistently excellent application performance. Learn More

Cops Use Device to Find Child Porn on Wireless Networks
It's not exactly rocket science to detect Wi-Fi networks, but a new device is helping law enforcement detect wireless networks and locate individuals who are suspected of downloading child pornography. Read More

Internet Explorer is best at protecting against drive-by downloads
Internet Explorer is better at defending against drive-by downloads than competitors' browsers and the contest isn't even close, according to a worldwide test of browsers by security research firm NSS Labs. Read More

RIM Developer Guru on Why You Should Believe in BlackBerry
Last week BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) held a first-of-its-kind BlackBerry developer event, called the "BBM Hackathon," in which a group of talented mobile software developers packed into New York City's swanky Ace Hotel for a few days, to share ideas and information and build the best BlackBerry applications that integrate with RIM's popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) IM app as quickly as possible. Read More


WHITE PAPER: GFI Software

Economics of Spam
Email security threats do not discriminate. Whether you're an organization with 50 employees or a global corporation with 50,000, the reality is that spam and viruses can wreak havoc on your business, drain users' productivity and take a major toll on IT resources. Read now

Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix released its flagship product, a VMware-based server combined with SSD and hard drive storage, today to deliver a clustered system that grows over time. Read More

Leveraging virtual I/O technologies to achieve converged infrastructures: The road to the private cloud
A private cloud architecture leverages the power of end-to-end virtualization so workloads can be fluidly distributed among a pool of servers, but this ideal cannot be achieved with traditional network infrastructure. Read More

Cloud CIO: What "Consumerization of IT" Really Means to CIOs
The consumerization of IT isn't just about employees using consumer devices and apps at work. It's about consumers becoming the primary users of internal IT applications, and it has serious ramifications for how CIOs operate and scale their IT infrastructures. Read More



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