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Best practices for printer security

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Best practices for printer security
Most companies pay significant attention to protecting data while it is at rest in storage or in use in an application, but what about when data is printed in documents? This could be a security breach waiting to happen. HP offers us some best practices around securing printers and the documents they produce. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Raritan

The Need for Improved Data Center Monitoring
CIOs are having success and frustration in efforts to measure, monitor and conserve data center energy use. Read the key findings and implications of this new survey data to learn best practices to track power costs and reduce waste, ensure accurate power consumption reporting, and identify missed opportunities for cost savings. Learn More

WHITE PAPER: Aerohive

Advantages of Cloud-based Network Management
One of the most interesting possibilities in cloud-based services today is to offload or even outsource capabilities that would otherwise need to be provisioned and managed locally – in other words, converting the capital expense (CapEx) involved in implementing a needed IT service into an operating expense (OpEx). Read now.

Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking
Oracle said Monday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will support Oracle's ongoing foray into cloud computing. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close within a few months, were not disclosed. Read More

Build a private social network that employees will actually use
More and more companies are creating private social networks that help their employees learn from each other and drive the business forward. Here are tips from four companies that are finding success with internal social networks. Read More


WHITE PAPER: AppSense

Deliver a Personalized Experience to Any Device
As the leading user virtualization solution recommended by Citrix, the AppSense User Virtualization Platform enables rapid, seamless, low-cost migration to a Citrix environment and provides a personalized physical-to-virtual user experience while reducing IT operation and infrastructure costs. Learn More

7 Steps to Happy Hires With Longterm Potential
Reed Technologies is among the rare companies that has recruit-and-retain down to a science. Here are 7 lessons from their strategies that you can use to build your own homegrown talent pool Read More

Google failed to delete all Street View data in UK
Google disclosed Friday in an email to the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office that it had not yet deleted all user data collected by its Street View vehicles, as it had agreed to more than 18 months ago. Read More


WHITE PAPER: AMD

Sustainable Infrastructure Begins with a Solid Base
What's the key to operating a successful global hosting business? Download this white paper to find out why the processor is the architectural building block of the business Learn how AMD's underlying technology can help you meet TCO objectives, manage costs, deliver superior performance, and achieve greater efficiency and scalability. Learn More!

VMware to acquire OpenFlow pioneer Nicira for $1.26 billion
Continuing its push to virtualize all aspects of the data center, VMware is acquiring software-defined networking firm Nicira for US$1.26 billion, the companies announced Monday. Read More

Why VMware is spending $1B-plus to buy Nicira
VMware is a company on the move: its planned $1.26 billion acquisition of Nicira not only brings it into the software-defined network (SDN) market, but should also broaden VMware's support for open standards and even open source. Read More

Eye candy for IT: 25 award-winning designs
Stellar industrial design distinguishes 25 red dot award-winning IT and communications products Read More

Microsoft needs to buy a vowel
I can sympathize because I've committed my fair share of typos over the years. Never this large, though. Read More



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