Mobility, video and cloud will drive network revenues up 8.7%

	Financial services firms try to scrimp on IT pay | Apple CEO Cook receives $376 million stock award
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	Mobility, video and cloud will drive network revenues up 8.7% in 2012, IDC says A perfect storm of growth in enterprise mobility, video consumption and cloud infrastructure will come together just in time for a major refresh cycle in 2012, driving worldwide enterprise network revenues to $39.4 billion by the end of the year, IDC predicts. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective IT's Role in a Better Customer Experience Capital One Auto Finance is investing $40 million this year to create a better customer experience, with IT playing a central role. Their CIO Don Goin will discuss why IT and data are everything in this fiercely competitive business at CIO Perspectives Dallas, February 16th! Click to continue In this Issue Financial services firms try to scrimp on IT pay Apple CEO Cook receives $376 million stock award Splunk 4.3 gets a boost for business analysis Mozilla moves forward with plan for enterprise version of Firefox Cisco gains SAN share as Brocade looks for buyer CES: Gigabit Wi-Fi takes center stage Bang for your IT buck Oracle partners with Cloudera for Hadoop appliance After Microsoft, what next for CES? WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! Financial services firms try to scrimp on IT pay At a time when most IT hiring managers are mulling pay increases to attract in-demand talent, there's a trend among financial services firms to reduce IT pay, according to one IT staffing firm. "Some of the larger financial institutions are trying to cut some rates," says Jack Cullen, president of IT staffing and recruiting firm Modis. "That's the only industry we're seeing this in." Read More Apple CEO Cook receives $376 million stock award Apple granted Tim Cook a 'promotion and retention award' valued at $376 million when he took over as CEO in August, the company revealed in its 2012 proxy statement, filed Monday with the SEC. Read More Splunk 4.3 gets a boost for business analysis With the newest update of its machine-data search engine, Splunk has expanded the user interface in a number of ways so it can be more easily used by business analysts as well as system administrators. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A New Look at Payment Security Akamai Edge Tokenization takes much of the cost and complexity out of eCommerce. By tokenizing critical payment data before it reaches your PCI-regulated infrastructure, Akamai relieves your organization from what experts consider the most important and challenging PCI requirement. Read more Mozilla moves forward with plan for enterprise version of Firefox Mozilla is advancing its plans to release a version of Firefox tailored for organizations whose IT departments manage it for their employees from a central console. Read More Cisco gains SAN share as Brocade looks for buyer Has Brocade finally found a buyer? Reports that it was close tickled the company's stock this week. Read More CES: Gigabit Wi-Fi takes center stage Vendors at CES 2012 will show the future of Wi-Fi: multi-gigabit data rates. First products are expected as early as mid-year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Branch on Demand Solution Brief Extending and Securing Access Across the Organization - The Aerohive Branch on Demand™ solution makes it easy to deploy corporate capabilities to employees anywhere, while reducing operational costs. Read now. Bang for your IT buck By all accounts the economy is stronger now than it was 12 months ago, but it is also clear that companies are still moving cautiously, and for the bulk of IT that means continuing to do more with what you have, which is at least better than doing more with less. Read More Oracle partners with Cloudera for Hadoop appliance Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to bring Apache Hadoop to its Oracle Big Data Appliance, which the company officially released Tuesday. Read More After Microsoft, what next for CES? Steve Ballmer gave Microsoft's last keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show Monday night, a damp squib that confirmed for some that the software maker has outstayed its welcome on CES's opening night. But whether Microsoft's departure is the beginning of the end for the world's biggest consumer electronics show depends on whom you ask. Read More
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