Systems management uses social media-like messages to enable better decisions

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	Systems management uses social media-like messages to enable better decisions Wouldn't it be cool if our computer systems could talk to us like HAL in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"? Instead we get complex and nearly undecipherable messages that read like pure log files. Startup company Nodeable aims to help your cloud-based systems communicate with you in a much more human language. Think of it as tweets from the cloud to provide you with status updates. Cool! Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications Offloading Telecom Delivers a Big Payback for IT Inaccurate invoices, complicated contracts, slow provisioning and poor support from Telecom carriers wastes time, money and resources. Learn the difference a custom data network solutions provider can deliver. Read Now! In this Issue Cloud is Really a Service Disguised as a Solution Apple's Dramatic Rise in the Enterprise Tests CIOs Why Pricing Should Be Done on More Than Just Instinct How IT Helped Shape UL's New Business Strategy The top 10 tech priorities of CIOs RSA chief: Last year's breach has silver lining WEBCAST: VMware & NetApp The Key to Successful Disaster Recovery Paula Fortin of Green Mountain Power explains how disaster recovery of their IT environment, based on VMware and NetApp technology solutions, was rapidly recoverable during Hurricane Irene. View Now! Cloud is Really a Service Disguised as a Solution Companies are desperate for knowledge when it comes to cloud. Executives want it and IT frankly is struggling with the best way to go about it or whether it even makes sense to adopt it. On the consumer side, I find myself moving more and more to the cloud. Music, photos, notes, email and even scanned-in paperwork is all in the cloud and that has made my life significantly easier and saved me time-two... Read More Apple's Dramatic Rise in the Enterprise Tests CIOs One in five information workers now uses an Apple product for work, says Forrester. Is Microsoft's dominance at an end? One thing is for certain: CIOs must deal with the Apple impact. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware & NetApp Drive IT Efficiency with a Private Cloud Read this success story and find out how NetApp and VMware provided Magna International with a cost-efficient solution. Read Now! Why Pricing Should Be Done on More Than Just Instinct CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson discusses her take on pricing and the role the CIO needs to play in this business function Read More How IT Helped Shape UL's New Business Strategy Underwriters Laboratories' CIO Christian Anschuetz discusses UL's recent transformation from a non-profit to a for-profit organization and how IT shaped and supported that change. He weighs in on the consumerization of IT, offers advice for CIOs, explains why 'big data' without 'big discretion' will lead to 'big failure,' and more. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Reduced TCO for Communications Applications Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 10:00 AM PST Learn how using Oracle Solaris 11, the industry's leading carrier grade OS, with new SPARC systems can speed OSS/BSS application performance and enable you to efficiently consolidate your data center. Register Now! The top 10 tech priorities of CIOs Analytics and business intelligence will be the top technology priorities for CIOs this year, according to Gartner Inc.'s annual survey of IT executives. Read More RSA chief: Last year's breach has silver lining Last year's industry-shaking RSA Security breach has resulted in customers' CEOs and CIOs engaging much more closely with the vendor to improve their organizations' security, according to the head of RSA. Read More
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