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	Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill With CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it's time to offer up some sacred caws for sacrifice. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Sainsbury's Safeguards Supply Chain for over 800 Stores Sainsbury operates the second largest online food retailer in the U.K. See their approach to gain better visibility to 1,800 devices and ensure high-availability of its network to safeguard the supply chain for over 800 stores and 100,000 online shoppers per week. Read now In this Issue 'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO Android 4.0: A rundown of key features Emtech 2011: Big Boy FiOS, videoconferencing everywhere and lots of fresh ideas 2011's notable tech industry deaths Researchers knuckle down and tap into super-sensitive touchscreens ShoreTel links Android phones to corporate PBXs Amazon Silk offers increased security on open Wi-Fi networks Gartner: Private clouds are a last resort Apple flooded with more than 1 million memories of Steve Jobs VMware, Nvidia work to improve virtual desktop performance Fujitsu labs show off pad that makes power from body heat, other new tech How to Evaluate Cloud Code, Part 1 WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Windows 7 Migration Made Easier with Desktop Virtualization Windows 7 presents both an opportunity and a challenge for enterprises and their IT organizations. . Unless IT can simplify the adoption process, the enterprise faces potential long term disruptions to IT and end users alike. Read this whitepaper to learn how desktop virtualization offers a better way forward. Learn More 'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO "You have to be a masochist to want to be an IT person,'' says Robert Carter. And he would know. Carter is the soft-spoken, hard-driving CIO who has been fighting for the past 11 years to transform IT operations at FedEx, where "the planes don't fly and trucks don't roll without IT services.'' Read More Android 4.0: A rundown of key features Google last night officially debuted the latest version of its Android platform, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich. Here is a rundown of its key features. Read More Emtech 2011: Big Boy FiOS, videoconferencing everywhere and lots of fresh ideas Technology Review's annual Emtech event at MIT always bursts with fresh-faced innovators awkwardly touting their world-changing breakthroughs. However, the 2011 event held this week at the new MIT Media Lab also includes plenty of established companies, from Google and IBM to Verizon and Polycom, promoting lots of new ideas backed by their significant financial and human resources. Read More 2011's notable tech industry deaths Steve Jobs, Ken Olsen among giants lost to industry in 2011 Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell and Intel Virtualization: Progress and Opportunity Standardizing on the latest server hardware, such as 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers featuring Intel processors, can help businesses overcome many of the challenges that keep them from capitalizing on virtualization's capabilities. Read now. Researchers knuckle down and tap into super-sensitive touchscreens Now that you've got the basics down of using smartphone and tablet touchscreens, Carnegie Mellon University researchers are ready to take you to the next level. Read More ShoreTel links Android phones to corporate PBXs Enterprise IT groups can now tie in Android-based mobile devices to corporate directories and IP PBXs, with the latest update by ShoreTel to its mobility software. Read More Amazon Silk offers increased security on open Wi-Fi networks The cloud-based design of Amazon's Silk browser has positive security side effects because it encrypts all traffic between users and websites, especially important when connected over unprotected Wi-Fi networks where session hijacking attacks can occur easily, the company said. Read More Gartner: Private clouds are a last resort Enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More Apple flooded with more than 1 million memories of Steve Jobs Apple, which today is holding a company-wide memorial for Steve Jobs, says that it has received more than 1 million messages from those recalling the company co-founder and former CEO in the wake of his death at the age of 56. Read More VMware, Nvidia work to improve virtual desktop performance VMware and Nvidia will work together to implement the graphics company Quadro's Virtual Graphics platform on VMware's View virtual desktop platform in order to allow more users to ditch the traditional workstation. Read More Fujitsu labs show off pad that makes power from body heat, other new tech Fujitsu held an open house at its research labs in Kanagawa, southwest of Tokyo. Researchers demonstrated new technologies, including a small, flexible sheet that uses differences in temperature to generate small electric charges. Read More How to Evaluate Cloud Code, Part 1 Many cloud applications focus on declarative programming, but let's face it -- code happens. How should you evaluate the code that runs in the cloud? Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 2011 tech industry graveyard Fortunately for the tech industry, there's a lot more living than dying, with 2011 seeing the birth of everything from Apple's iPad 2 to the Google+ social network. But inevitably, 2011 has also seen its share of dead, killed, murdered, offed, obliterated companies, technologies and ideas as well. Here's your chance to pay last respects, and who knows, maybe a few of these will sprout back to life. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES Cisco unveils latest Nexus data center switch Day 1: Giving up Windows 7 for Ubuntu 11.10 for two weeks Cheap power: An overnight revolution Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012 Ballmer feels lucky Microsoft didn't buy Yahoo in 2008 Death to firewalls; long live firewalls Google unveils what's new in Android 4 'Ice Cream Sandwich' The challenge of managing mountains of information Researchers discover keyboard keylogger attack via iPhone? Gartner: Big challenges lurk in building enterprise wireless networks
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