IT employment inches upward in services segments

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	IT employment inches upward in services segments When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly employment figures last week, there was little to cheer about. The number of unemployed persons (14 million) was essentially unchanged in August, and the unemployment rate held steady at 9.1%, where it has hovered since April. Read More WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Business Maximizing The Cloud To Your Needs Today's enterprise is increasingly IT-dependent and network-based, requiring agile IT infrastructure sourcing approaches to meet rapidly changing business objectives. See how a dynamic, cloud-based infrastructure can flexibly supports key business needs—and whether it's right for your organization. Read now! In this Issue Ten years after 9/11, cyberattacks pose national threat, committee says What online news looked like on 9/11 Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source software of the year Automation tools for complex environments Salesforce.com CEO: Sorry, virtualization isn't cloud computing Hadoop distro vendor MapR grabs $20 million in funding Sprint sues to block AT&T-T-Mobile merger OpenText buys Operitel for learning software SaaS ERP is making the grade at Brown University ERP apps gaining useful new social media tools WEBCAST: Juniper Networks The Exponential Data Center Arbner will explore how changing data usage models have completely shifted network traffic patterns in the data center, making most data center networks ill-suited to today's reality, and too expensive to boot. Learn more >> Ten years after 9/11, cyberattacks pose national threat, committee says Ten years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the nation faces a critical threat to its security from cyberattacks, a new report by a bipartisan think tank warns. Read More What online news looked like on 9/11 There was no Twitter, Facebook or YouTube on Sept. 11, 2001. Google News was a year from launch. And while most everyone stayed glued to their TV sets to watch the unfolding horror, there still was plentiful coverage online. Read More Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source software of the year Open source software continues the march toward world domination, but the bright open promise dims. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Improve IT Performance with Analytics-Based Services To meet application performance demands, many organizations are implementing high-density computing solutions. But this places greater demands on the data center's power and cooling needs, adding to the cost of operations. Read now Automation tools for complex environments Today's IT environments are more complex than ever, comprised, as they are, of physical, virtual and cloud resources, a variety of applications and platforms and complex interdependencies, and the need to balance resources among often-conflicting demands. Automation can help, but because most automation solutions lack breadth, they require extensive manual coordination, introduce inefficiencies, and create automated processing silos, with no means of global visibility or control. Read More Salesforce.com CEO: Sorry, virtualization isn't cloud computing While much of the networking industry last week was focused on VMworld in Las Vegas, Marc Benioff was at his own company's cloud computing event in San Francisco, where the Salesforce.com chief executive answered questions from attendees of Dreamforce 2011. Read More Hadoop distro vendor MapR grabs $20 million in funding MapR Technologies, a provider of distribution for Apache Hadoop, has scored a $20 million round of venture funding led by Redpoint Ventures. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation V-locity 2 Virtual Platform Disk Optimizer Get maximum performance on virtual servers. Between the host disk and the VMs, I/O bottlenecks accumulate rapidly and slow the entire virtual platform down significantly impacting performance and productivity. V-locity 2 automatically eliminates these slows and optimizes performance. Try it FREE for 30 days. Download now! Sprint sues to block AT&T-T-Mobile merger Sprint isn't letting the Department of Justice have the stage to itself when it comes to filing suits against the proposed $39 billion AT&T-T-Mobile merger. Read More OpenText buys Operitel for learning software Open Text has purchased Operitel, maker of learning and portal software that is integrated with Microsoft SharePoint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More SaaS ERP is making the grade at Brown University When powerful ERP applications are needed by growing businesses today, SaaS ERP is being looked at more and more as a viable option to traditional complex, expensive and labor-intensive packaged ERP suites. And while SaaS ERP is still young, in the right setting and with the right users, it's offering some eye-opening real world gains for a variety of organizations. Read More ERP apps gaining useful new social media tools Consumer-friendly social media tools are finally being integrated into complex ERP applications. Enhancing ERP with deep social media capabilities will allow for easy and fast communications between businesses and customers. Read More
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