10 technologies that disappointed in 2012

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	10 technologies that disappointed in 2012 Sure, 2012 saw its share of innovation and technological breakthroughs. But not every technology or product lives up to the hype they generate when they're first announced. Here are 10 technologies that fell short of expectations in 2012. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point MS Exchange Deployment Guide This Deployment Guide provides detailed instruction for running Exchange 2010 with Coyote Point's Equalizer®, a qualified hardware vendor for load balancing Exchange Server 2010 View Now In this Issue INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Prediction time: 2013 will not be the year of SDN Fiscal cliff or not, it's already rough for federal IT vendors Holiday cooking brings major traffic spike to Allrecipes.com Dell buying data-protection vendor Credant 10 of the most useful cloud databases Amazon allows users to spread workloads more broadly now 5 tips to retain great security talent Kaiser plans to hire 500 for new IT center in Colorado Executive management is becoming more engaged in information security WHITE PAPER: HP Extend the Life of Your Storage Leveraging deduplication in backup environments yields significant advantages. The cost savings in reducing disk capacity requirements change the economics of disk-based backup. Read Now! INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing. Read More Prediction time: 2013 will not be the year of SDN Well, it's hard to believe but the year is almost up and there are only a mere couple of weeks until we ring in the New Year. So that makes it prediction time for us industry analysts and I'd like to share mine with you. So, drum roll please… Read More Fiscal cliff or not, it's already rough for federal IT vendors If Congress doesn't avert the fiscal impasse, automatic budget cuts could reduce federal IT spending by $66 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, according to an analysis by the industry group CompTIA. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software The Right Way to Prove Identity and Establish Trust Right now, someone's logging into your network and accessing proprietary data. Do you know who it is? Ensuring the identity of the person(s) trying to access your network is harder than ever. This Quest technical brief explains why two-factor authentication is superior to password authentication. Read Now! Holiday cooking brings major traffic spike to Allrecipes.com It's the busy time of year for Allrecipes.com, which gets 700 million visitors annually, and to accommodate the surge of recipe-seekers, it's necessary to cook up some serious network changes in the data center. Read More Dell buying data-protection vendor Credant Dell has made a deal to acquire data-protection vendor Credant Technologies and plans to add the company's technology to its enterprise IT security offerings. Read More 10 of the most useful cloud databases Big data is becoming a big deal and cloud providers want to be the place where enterprises databases live. Read More WEBCAST: Ipswitch, Inc Establishing an IT Infrastructure Baseline In today's dynamic environment how do you: • Keep track of what's on your network, how it's all connected and the dependencies between devices? • Quickly isolate and resolve availability and performance problems? • Assess the impact of changes to network designs and device configurations? • Assess the impact of changes in network traffic? Register now. Amazon allows users to spread workloads more broadly now Amazon Web Services announced a new feature that allows users to replicate block storage volumes across regions of the world, which will make it easier for systems to stay up in case of a cloud outage. Read More 5 tips to retain great security talent You want the best on your security team. And once you've got them, you want to keep them happy and keep them in your organization. Read More Kaiser plans to hire 500 for new IT center in Colorado Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has begun hiring about 500 IT professionals to staff its new information technology campus in Englewood, Colo. Read More Executive management is becoming more engaged in information security Dealing with business and executive managers has been a persistent occupational hazard for security professionals. Business managers didn't want policy enforcement to get in the way of business productivity. CEOs and CFOs tended to eschew "good security" for "good enough security." The biggest role they played here was that of budget cutter. Read More
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