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	Thompson Reuters moves payroll, HR data to the cloud Information and financial services giant Thompson Reuters has more than 55,000 employees spread over 100 countries. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix Take Control Now – Remote Support and IT Monitoring Introducing Citrix GoToManage, the complete cloud-based, end-to-end platform for IT managers and consultants. Amaze your clients with fast, secure remote support and keep critical servers and systems up and running with proactive monitoring and management. Try It Free Now! In this Issue Vendors as partners The world's geekiest license plates Virginia 5.9 quake shutters reactors, disrupts cell phone service Workplace conflict: How to diffuse battles with co-workers Cisco aims for a go-anywhere router A case against third-party management tools Portland General Electric tries smart security monitoring Alcatel-Lucent aims to fix network issues before they arise EnterpriseDB revs up Oracle attack with new management tools WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Changing Role of IT This white paper analyzes research conducted by IDG Research Services about the changing role of IT: what's driving the change, what skill-sets will be more valued and what should forward-looking IT executives consider as IT shifts increasingly towards an IT supply chain model. Learn More Vendors as partners Ken Piddington, CIO of Global Partners LP, an $8 billion energy company in the Northeast, recently implemented an innovative vendor partnership program that he hopes will improve the product and services the company gets from suppliers while helping those suppliers more efficiently serve the company and benefit from the relationship. He recently outlined the plan with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix. Read More The world's geekiest license plates This slideshow is filled with images of vanity plates so geeky that they prompted someone else to take a picture and post it on Flickr. Read More Virginia 5.9 quake shutters reactors, disrupts cell phone service A 5.9-magnitude earthquake centered in central Virginia disrupted cell phone service and closed two nuclear reactors, numerous bridges and tunnels in East Coast cities on Tuesday afternoon. 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! Workplace conflict: How to diffuse battles with co-workers No one likes to address workplace conflicts--not the employees who get embroiled in them and especially not the employees' managers, who pretend they don't exist. After all, conflict is messy, often political, and requires confrontation--an activity most people aim to avoid. Read More Cisco aims for a go-anywhere router Cisco Systems made its fortune selling routers for the cores of enterprise and service-provider networks, but now the company is sending its technology farther from those cozy confines than ever before. Read More A case against third-party management tools One of the biggest businesses in IT is 3rd party tools. And the DB market has almost more than I can even count. We've got tools for everything from backups to security and defrag. It's amazing how many of those things there are. And one of the questions I'm asked the most when I get mobbed by users at conferences is which tools do I use in my shop. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Integrated Service Management and Cloud Computing Today, success demands agility. If your IT staff spends all of their time worrying about security, uptime and capacity problems, they won't be working with you to drive innovation. Read now Portland General Electric tries smart security monitoring Why Portland General Electric deployed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology and what they've been able to accomplish as a result. Read More Alcatel-Lucent aims to fix network issues before they arise Alcatel-Lucent has introduced a set of services to proactively analyze performance in fixed networks, identify potential problems and take action to minimize their impact, the company says. Read More EnterpriseDB revs up Oracle attack with new management tools EnterpriseDB could increase the relevance of its database to Oracle shops with a new toolset that can manage many servers at once. Read More
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