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	HP's trusty 12c financial calculator turns 30 Designed for dealmakers, the 12c is engineered to handle complex formulas for calculating loan payments, determining bond yields, and constructing depreciation schedules. It's a cult classic among finance and business professionals. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software 5 Tips for Effective Backup & Recovery In this Quest white paper, discover proven techniques to maximize and secure your virtual investments. Learn to increase backup speed, maximize throughput, and minimize performance drains while reducing costs. Read the white paper today. Read More. In this Issue IBM to buy risk analysis company Algorithmics for $387M VMworld's quirkiest moments Researchers' waste management pyramid takes aim at messy computer innards Juniper, like Cisco, may cut staff 10 ways to enhance Google+ Desktop virtualization users say the technology brings challenges Advocating open source management can be a disaster University tests ERP on new Dell cloud Sister organizations pool their resources to share SIEM and logging ScaleXtreme launches hybrid cloud management service Salesforce.com gets into ERP with Infor, Workday WHITE PAPER: IBM Discovering hidden costs in your data center At the June 2010 meeting of top CFOs at the Financial Executives International (FEI) Canada annual conference, IBM had the opportunity to talk with more than 60 CFOs to determine how much business insight they have on their data centre costs. Read now IBM to buy risk analysis company Algorithmics for $387M IBM plans to acquire risk analytics company Algorithmics for $387 million, a deal that will bolster its risk management offerings in light of increasing regulation in the financial markets. Read More VMworld's quirkiest moments The VMworld Conference, attended by more than 19,000 people, is highlighting the dynamic creativity of VMware's software division managers and technical staff as they present what's in the works for virtualization of desktops, servers and their management. But that doesn't mean this show isn't without its quirky moments. Read More Researchers' waste management pyramid takes aim at messy computer innards Johns Hopkins University researchers are thinking green about how to speed up computers and make them last longer. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Research—Accelerate Internet Websites and Applications Gartner report "How to Accelerate Internet Websites and Applications" is a study of three popular website acceleration techniques: network optimization, front-end optimization and edge caching. Read now Juniper, like Cisco, may cut staff Like rival Cisco, Juniper is expected to cut its workforce as spending among key customers declines. In a bulletin issued this week, investment firm UBS states that Juniper may cut 10% of its 9,300-strong workforce to reduce expenses and boost profitability in the face of lower spending among service provider and public sector customers. Read More 10 ways to enhance Google+ Google+ has made an impressive debut by signing up more than 25 million users, despite launching as an invite-only beta. Of course, fixes and features get slipped into software prior to official release by its developers, but with Google+ several users have taken it upon themselves to write enhancements in the form of Chrome browser extensions. Read More Desktop virtualization users say the technology brings challenges Sacking the old PC in favor of desktop virtualization is starting to grow and the IT managers taking the lead on that trend offer some perspectives on the networking and security challenges it brings. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer FREE 30-day trialware Bring your largest and most mission-critical server operations to a new level of efficiency and reliability. Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer provides uncompromising peak performance continuously and without requiring downtime or further management. Learn more. Advocating open source management can be a disaster In the wake of Hurricane Irene, National Public Radio ran a piece on the challenges of risk management. Government officials, right up to the President, took heat for overblowing the potential danger, whereas surely they'd have been vilified if things had gone the other way and people had died due to insufficient warning. Read More University tests ERP on new Dell cloud University of Kentucky CIO Vince Kellen is considering moving some of the university's SAP work to a cloud environment, which would make him a relatively early adopter of ERP in the cloud. Read More Sister organizations pool their resources to share SIEM and logging You've heard the expression, "Two can live as cheaply as one," but can five log as cheaply as one? Five sister clubs of the Canadian Automobile Association pooled their resources to acquire one high-end SIEM and logging system from LogRhythm to meet their logging requirements for PCI compliance. Read More ScaleXtreme launches hybrid cloud management service Companies that have as many as 400 servers, including machines running internally as well as in public clouds, can now use a hosted management tool from ScaleXtreme. Read More Salesforce.com gets into ERP with Infor, Workday Salesforce.com is strengthening its hand in the ERP (enterprise resource planning) market, announcing two new partnerships with Infor and Workday that will result in an intermingling of the companies' applications and technologies. Read More
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