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	Spam really is a food, and you can drink java, too Beloit College just came out with its 2016 Mindset List -- a cultural profile of incoming freshman and the things that have influenced their lives. It's a time to reflect on perspectives shaped by the generation we grew up in. Not to be outdone, we have our own set of "touchstones" for the newest generation of IT workers. Believe it or not, Spam is a food and you can wash it down with java. Read More WEBCAST: SAP SAP Sales OnDemand Demo: Quick Overview SAP Sales OnDemand is intuitive, leveraging social collaboration capabilities you already know how to use. It enables fast, effective team collaboration and account management to help you sell more effectively. Watch the video to see how! Learn More In this Issue Top Challenges Facing Healthcare CIOs BYOD makes employees work extra 20 hours unpaid BYOD: What Can We Learn from China? Cloud provider: The best security for your passwords is to never give them to us Silver Peak builds WAN optimization directly into major hypervisors The wild world of wearable computers WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Ensuring Service Assurance in the New Normal Businesses using the cloud must make the transaction the center of gravity for management of IT operations. Why focus on transactions? It's the only constant for which IT is accountable as more infrastructure and platforms are moved to the cloud. Learn More Top Challenges Facing Healthcare CIOs Few industries face as many IT challenges as healthcare, where government mandates, security requirements and a need to replace outdated technology make a CIO's job difficult. Read More BYOD makes employees work extra 20 hours unpaid Many employees are working up to 20 additional hours per week unpaid as a result of bring your own device (BYOD) policies adopted by their firms. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More BYOD: What Can We Learn from China? U.S. employees may never be as accepting as the Chinese about BYOD's potential privacy violations, but American companies can still learn a lot about effective BYOD from China, namely, better educating workers about security. Read More Cloud provider: The best security for your passwords is to never give them to us Ethan Oberman, CEO of cloud backup and sharing service SpiderOak, has a proposition for enterprises that may be leery about using the cloud because of a perceived lack of security. The best security for cloud storage, he says, is to encrypt the data and not give your service provider the keys to unencrypt it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Release 5.0 Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provides the industry's most scalable, highest performance WAN optimization solution. Cisco WAAS is able to improve end user experience and reduce bandwidth for key applications. Learn more. Silver Peak builds WAN optimization directly into major hypervisors WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak announced today that it has integrated its virtual open architecture product directly into VMware vSphere, allowing IT staff who aren't directly involved with the network layer to interact with it via the hypervisor console. Read More The wild world of wearable computers Imagine wearing shoes that reveal your precise weight distribution when standing, walking, or running (Moticon); a tattoo that vibrates when you have incoming calls and messages (Nokia); or an armband that tracks how many calories you've burned in a day (Nike+ FuelBand). Read More
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