Gartner report throws cold water on uber-hyped OpenStack project

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	Gartner report throws cold water on uber-hyped OpenStack project A scathing report about OpenStack from research firm Gartner warns businesses to beware of considerable hype and says misconceptions about the open source cloud computing project are leading to "dangerous myths" that are impacting IT adoption and investments. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat The Economics of Scale-Out Storage Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution. Learn More In this Issue Products of the week 10.1.12 Internet pioneer Dr. Leonard Kleinrock still pushing emerging technologies Cisco releases major update to its security management product Apple iPad Mini unveiling rumored to be Oct. 17 'Replacement Google' lets NFL skate; now takes aim at NHL First look: The new lineup of Clover Trail-based tablets Half of U.S. adults now own a tablet or smartphone, Pew study finds Apparent iCloud glitch has Apple offering users free 25GB storage until 2050 INSIDER How UC Drove Sales, Rescued Customers From Voicemail Hell Microsoft augments JavaScript for large-scale development Steve Jobs waxwork sculpture debuts to mark 1-year anniversary of his death WEBCAST: VMware Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: Gartner Research Declining hardware and software costs have an impact on total cost of ownership (TCO), but how desktop PCs are managed remains the most critical factor in reducing TCO. This Gartner article illustrates how a higher management level for desktops can achieve lower TCO and improved user productivity. Read Now! Products of the week 10.1.12 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as SAP,Hitachi, Extreme Read More Internet pioneer Dr. Leonard Kleinrock still pushing emerging technologies It's not hard to find Internet pioneer Dr. Leonard Kleinrock -- he's been at UCLA for 50 years, since 1963. Read More Cisco releases major update to its security management product Cisco just recently introduced an updated version of its security management tool CSM. The new release brings with it some nice new features and functionality to the tool. If you haven't heard of Cisco Security Manager (CSM) before, in a nutshell it is Cisco's consolidated GUI for management, monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting of its VPN, Firewall and IPS product lines. Cisco Security Manager,... Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee What's Holding Back the Cloud? This report captures key findings from a blind survey of 800 IT professionals in four countries — China, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States — that provide insight into cloud computing security concerns, and how those concerns might be alleviated. Learn more in the McAfee Securing Cloud-Based Services KnowledgeVault. Learn more. Apple iPad Mini unveiling rumored to be Oct. 17 Apple is said to be readying press invites for an event likely on Oct. 17 to unveil the much speculated-about iPad Mini tablet. Read More 'Replacement Google' lets NFL skate; now takes aim at NHL As Internet memes go, last week's lampooning of the NFL over its replacement referees was intense, amusing and naturally short-lived, given the welcome return of the regular refs on Thursday night. Read More First look: The new lineup of Clover Trail-based tablets Several big OEMs debuted new Intel-powered tablets running Windows 8 Read More WHITE PAPER: Endace Ltd. Why Traditional Network Monitoring Tools Fall Short The status quo in network monitoring is no longer adequate for large organizations. It's simply taking too long for enterprises with mission-critical networks to resolve and find root causes of network incidents. View Now Half of U.S. adults now own a tablet or smartphone, Pew study finds The results of a new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism indicate that half of American adults have mobile Internet access via a tablet or smartphone, further highlighting the quickly changing nature of media consumption. Read More Apparent iCloud glitch has Apple offering users free 25GB storage until 2050 Either Apple's iCloud accounting system is suffering a glitch or the company has suddenly become quite generous. Read More INSIDER How UC Drove Sales, Rescued Customers From Voicemail Hell EMSL discovered how un-unified it seemed to its customers when a UC project that forwarded calls to employees' mobile devices proved the secret to winning back business. Read More Microsoft augments JavaScript for large-scale development Equipping JavaScript to build more complex applications, Microsoft has augmented JavaScript with a set of advanced development capabilities typically found in more mature programming languages, such as C++ and Java. These new capabilities, packaged as a new domain-specific language (DSL) called TypeScript, offers static typing, classes and modularization. Read More Steve Jobs waxwork sculpture debuts to mark 1-year anniversary of his death Madame Tussauds in Hong Kong is commemorating the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs' death at the age of 56 last Oct. 5 by unveiling a lifelike waxwork figure of the Apple co-founder. Read More
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