Gamification of the enterprise

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	Gamification of the enterprise Can badges and scoreboards really make employees work harder, for no extra pay? Or will IT departments be stuck spending time and money "gamifying" work processes - only to have to undo everything once the fad has run its course? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare, part of the SolarWinds Family Support thousands of users without leaving your desk! Remotely manage servers, desktops and laptops in minutes! With DameWare you can remotely manage key elements of your infrastructure - domains, workstations, disk drives, & event logs. You need to resolve Windows, Mac & Linux problems for your end-users quickly, and DameWare lets you perform various critical system management tasks - remotely! Download a fully functional, free trial today and discover why thousands of system administrators use DameWare every day! In this Issue Top 4 gamification apps Low-cost RADIUS servers for Wi-Fi security Riverbed debuts amped-up Whitewater storage gateway, upgraded software Botnet or human? Black Lotus service sorts them out to block DDoS attacks Intel tying server chips to fabric for cloud computing, HPC IT spending to grow in 2012 despite economic woes, says IDC HP security smorgasbord upgrades include management software, IPS and printer access IBM keeps the mainframe alive WEBCAST: Riverbed Virtualize Your ADI: Are You Ready to Unbox? Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT Traditional application delivery controller (ADC) architectures focus on load balancing and lack the efficiency required in today's IT environment. Join Kavitha Mariappan, Product Marketing Director at Riverbed Technology, to discuss the benefits of an updated ADC. Learn more. Top 4 gamification apps Companies should not attempt to jump into gamification all at once. Here are four specific applications that are excellent places to start your gamification program. Read More Low-cost RADIUS servers for Wi-Fi security Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) servers are common in enterprise networks to offer centralized authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) for access control. But RADIUS servers can also be useful in small and midsize networks to enable 802.1X authentication and WPA2 (802.11i) security for Wi-Fi nets. 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. Riverbed debuts amped-up Whitewater storage gateway, upgraded software The new Whitewater 3010 storage gateway from Riverbed Technologies will help companies cope with fast-growing backup workloads without resorting to tape storage, the company announced Monday. Read More Botnet or human? Black Lotus service sorts them out to block DDoS attacks Black Lotus is pulling the wraps of a distributed denial-of-service-mitigation service that uses behavioral factors to pick up on low-volume botnet attacks that nevertheless can cripple Web servers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Optimize and Secure Cloud, SaaS, BYOD, and Social Media Today's threat landscape has migrated to the web causing many security professionals to prevent direct Internet access at the branch. But with new cloud-based security solutions from Blue Coat you can re-architect your network to embrace the Internet – safely – and optimize application performance. Learn more. Intel tying server chips to fabric for cloud computing, HPC Intel on Monday said it is developing high-performance server chips that in the future will serve up faster results from cloud services or data-intensive applications like analytics, all while cutting electricity bills in data centers. Read More IT spending to grow in 2012 despite economic woes, says IDC Worldwide IT spending remains on course to grow by 6 percent in 2012 despite the grim economic situation in Europe, thanks to strong software, storage, smartphone and tablet sales, according to IDC. Read More HP security smorgasbord upgrades include management software, IPS and printer access HP is announcing widespread improvements to its security portfolio including security management software, services, IPS platform and even printer security. Read More IBM keeps the mainframe alive IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise EC12, was built with data analytics and hybrid clouds in mind -- and analysts say that's a good thing. Read More
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