Great tech for $25 or less: affordable-gadget roundup

	Motorola announces new Droid Razr smartphones | Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack, OpenStack
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	Great tech for $25 or less: affordable-gadget roundup Go ahead and crack your piggy bank open. These 25 tech gadgets won't bust your budget. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: QLogic Corporation Are You Planning a 10Gb Ethernet Upgrade? QLogic's 10GbEIntelligent Ethernet Adapters work in conjunction with the latest virtualization operating systems with new virtualization and management features. We provide flexible networking solutions that can evolve with your technology while protecting investments in virtualization and server consolidation. But don't take our word for it. Check it out for yourself! Download a free white paper with pertinent information you need to know about upgrading your current Ethernet infrastructure. In this Issue Motorola announces new Droid Razr smartphones Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack, OpenStack First look: Motorola's new Droid RAZR lineup Cisco, HP switching share down in Q2 Cloud computing companies to watch: A product sampler D-Link NAS integrates with smartphones and stores up 16TB INSIDER Measuring CIO Performance: The Rise and Fall of Compensation Mac virtualization face-off: VMware Fusion 5 vs. Parallels Desktop 8 The Security Skills Shortage Impact on Security Services P2P blocklists fail to protect privacy from copyright cops' mass monitoring How to Prepare for IT Service Delivery of the Future RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Motorola announces new Droid Razr smartphones Motorola Mobility on Tuesday announced three new Droid Razr smartphones with 4G LTE capabilities and reiterated its commitment to the Android operating system as the company forges ahead with its smartphone strategy. Read More Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack, OpenStack Earlier this year Citrix rumbled the open source cloud industry when it ditched OpenStack, a project backed by big-name companies such as Rackspace, Red Hat, Dell and HP, and launched CloudStack, a competing open source platform for cloud deployments. Months later, vendors across the industry are strategically aligning themselves on either side of the divide between OpenStack or CloudStack, which is now an Apache Software Foundation-managed project. Read More First look: Motorola's new Droid RAZR lineup We check out the latest additions to the company's Android-powered RAZR stable Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Storage: Getting the Best of Two Worlds In this report we look at each component of Hybrid Cloud Storage as users of this new technology will be able to choose where to locate their data, on-premise with Scale-out NAS or in the Public Cloud. Learn More Cisco, HP switching share down in Q2 Cisco and HP, the Nos. 1 and 2 vendors in the Ethernet switch market, both lost market share in the second quarter from last year even though revenue for both rose. Also enjoying a revenue increase in the quarter from a year ago were Juniper and Dell, which saw a double-digit percentage increase thanks in large part to its acquisition of Force10. Read More Cloud computing companies to watch: A product sampler Previewing 8 products from our list of cloud computing startups worth watching Read More D-Link NAS integrates with smartphones and stores up 16TB D-Link's latest addition to its network-attached storage portfolio, the Cloud Storage 4000, can store up to 16TB of data which can be accessed remotely using smartphones or tablets. But the company offers few cloud features to justify the name. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Management Madness: How to Manage Mobile Devices There are six major mobile operating systems in use now and each one offers its own set of security and management challenges. The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault will help you keep these devices secure on the corporate network with expert tips on management tools, endpoint security software, increasing application support and more. Learn More INSIDER Measuring CIO Performance: The Rise and Fall of Compensation CIO compensation may be based on whether the company hits its goals for return on assets or other financial metrics. Here's a look at what goes into the equation. Read More Mac virtualization face-off: VMware Fusion 5 vs. Parallels Desktop 8 Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion support are promoted, but existed already in the previous versions. So what else is new? Read More The Security Skills Shortage Impact on Security Services According to ESG Research, 55% of enterprise organizations (i.e. those with more than 1,000 employees) plan to hire additional security professionals in 2012 but they are extremely hard to find. In fact, 83% of enterprises claim that it is "extremely difficult" or "somewhat difficult" to recruit and/or hire security professionals in the current market. Read More P2P blocklists fail to protect privacy from copyright cops' mass monitoring Have you downloaded any pirated movies, music or eBooks via a BitTorrent client lately? If yes, then you probably had your IP address logged by copyright cops within three hours of joining a swarm. Opting not hide your IP behind a VPN or proxy, and instead opting to use P2P blocklists don't offer file-sharers much protection from the "massive monitoring" activities by anti-piracy groups. Read More How to Prepare for IT Service Delivery of the Future IT's industrial revolution is here, and it's all about service. In the future, IT will focus on the customer, services and automation. To stay relevant and competitive, business leaders must embrace industrialized automation as a way to deliver customer outcomes faster, cheaper and at higher quality. Read More
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