16 of the most useful cloud management tools

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Click to continue In this Issue Top tools for single sign-on Compromised Windows PCs bought in China pose risk to U.S. Blue Coat second company to buy Crossbeam Systems in recent weeks 5 tips to retain great security talent Two techies among Time's Person of the Year candidates INSIDER Making HTML5 work now for mobile app development The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 Raspberry Pi now has its own app store Microsoft's antivirus is a starting point, not the final stop Facebook for Android update makes Facebook more addictive How removing 386 support in Linux will destroy the world TSA: All your travel are belong to us? Microsoft-bankrolled report argues for single-browser enterprises RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare, part of the SolarWinds Family DameWare Remote Support Software – Easy, Fast & Affordable 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! Top tools for single sign-on Okta, OneLogin score high in test of 8 solutions that beef up app security and cut help desk calls. Read More Compromised Windows PCs bought in China pose risk to U.S. Counterfeit versions of Windows running on Chinese PCs do more than take money from Microsoft's pocket, they also pose a security threat to U.S. companies and consumers, experts say. Read More Blue Coat second company to buy Crossbeam Systems in recent weeks Blue Coat Systems Monday announced an agreement to acquire Crossbeam Systems for an undisclosed amount by year-end. This would mark the second time Crossbeam has been acquired in 2012, with private equity firm Thoma Bravo acquiring it just last month. 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 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds, Inc. SolarWinds Web Help Desk Software - Awesomely Affordably Web-based ticketing, change management, IT asset management & more! SolarWinds Web Help Desk is an affordable, feature-rich, easy-to-use tool that goes beyond simple trouble ticket solutions. Automatically convert user emails into tickets, update tickets, inventory assets & more. Get all of the help desk features you need at an incredible price! Download a fully functional, 30-day free trial today and discover how easy and affordable help desk software can be! Two techies among Time's Person of the Year candidates Apple CEO Tim Cook and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer are the two techiest candidates for the 2012 Time Person of the Year honor that will be announced this Wednesday. They also have competition from a couple of non-persons: the Higgs boson (or "God") particle of Large Hadron Collider fame and the Mars Rover. Read More INSIDER Making HTML5 work now for mobile app development HTML5 has been dissed, dismissed and disrespected of late, but defenders say the evolving standard is still the best choice for platform-independent mobile app development. Insider (registration required) Read More The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 From Google Android development to crazy iPhone stunts, it's been a busy year Read More Raspberry Pi now has its own app store The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that the new Pi Store is open for business, providing a centralized source of software for users of its tiny PCs. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Standards-Based Platforms are Transforming IT More and more businesses are saving time and money by transforming proprietary, siloed computer environments for resource-intensive workloads into consolidated IT infrastructures built on industry standards and open systems. Learn More Microsoft's antivirus is a starting point, not the final stop Last week's blog post from Alan Shimel that showed Microsoft's antivirus software, Security Essentials, is the most popular antivirus software product in the world came as no surprise. They give it away for free and push it on you if you go anywhere near Microsoft.com. Read More Facebook for Android update makes Facebook more addictive By now, most chronic Facebook users with Android phones have upgraded to Facebook 2.0 for Android, which was released last Thursday. Completely redesigned and rewritten as a native app, Facebook 2.0 for Android improves the speed and performance of users' interactions with their newsfeeds. Read More How removing 386 support in Linux will destroy the world As you may have heard by now, the Linux kernel is dropping support for the 386 processor. It's okay. I'll wait right here while you finish pushing over monitors and flipping over every desk at work in a nerd rage. I did the same thing. Get it out of your system. I know, I know. Almost nobody on the planet uses a 386-based PC anymore. The first 386 processors started shipping in 1985 – which, according... Read More TSA: All your travel are belong to us? Although FederalNewsRadio reported "TSA's playbook keeps terrorists guessing," many people would tend to agree more with consumer advocate Christopher Elliot's statement that "Today's TSA is a joke. Read More Microsoft-bankrolled report argues for single-browser enterprises A Microsoft-commissioned report published last week said companies can save tens of thousands of dollars in support and development costs by standardizing on one browser. Read More
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