IDC's 2013 tech predictions: Mobile devices, emerging markets drive growth

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	IDC's 2013 tech predictions: Mobile devices, emerging markets drive growth Worldwide IT spending in 2013 will exceed $2.1 trillion, up 5.7% from 2012, predicts IDC. Mobility and emerging markets play dominant roles in the industry's growth. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! In this Issue CIO succession: Promote from within vs. hire an outsider Six free/open source databases with commercial-quality features Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics disagree...over the cloud Managing IT contractors presents unique challenges Tablet smackdown: iPad vs Surface RT in the enterprise Browser battle: Chrome vs. Firefox vs. IE vs. Opera PC vendors curb expectations for Windows 8 sales hike HP's woes persist as Autonomy deal goes bad 2013: Year of the hybrid cloud WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) What Really Happens to Your Deleted Files You might be surprised! In this White Paper, many of the common and incorrect assumptions about file protection and recovery are detailed as well as a look Condusiv Technologies' Undelete 10, which fills many of the gaps left by other "recovery" methods. Read Now! CIO succession: Promote from within vs. hire an outsider Tapping an outsider can bring fresh perspective and experience to the CIO's office, but it also can have a negative effect on companies' efforts to develop IT management talent internally. Read More Six free/open source databases with commercial-quality features Microsoft, Oracle offer impressive free versions of their commercial offerings, but MariaDB wins our test. Read More Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics disagree...over the cloud When the Brooklyn Nets traveled to Boston to play the Celtics last week, it became apparent that the two organizations disagreed about something - the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now Managing IT contractors presents unique challenges Hiring contract tech workers is a quick, easy way to staff up a project or offload mundane tasks -- but managing them can be ticklish. Read More Tablet smackdown: iPad vs Surface RT in the enterprise IPads are already making their way into businesses via bring-your-own-device efforts with Microsoft Surface RT tablets hoping to follow suit as employees lobby for their favorite devices. But which one makes more sense from an IT perspective? Read More Browser battle: Chrome vs. Firefox vs. IE vs. Opera After a long, quiet period of Microsoft dominance, the PC browser market has been broken wide-open again in recent years, with Firefox and Chrome challenging Internet Explorer, and Opera sniffing at the margins. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Scaling Out Data Centers Organizations of all sizes are facing daunting challenges as they struggle to adapt their data center networks to new technologies and applications. The move toward cloud architectures in particular is demanding a high-performance network interconnect that can host servers potentially numbering in the thousands. Read Now PC vendors curb expectations for Windows 8 sales hike Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year, an analyst said recently. Read More HP's woes persist as Autonomy deal goes bad Hewlett-Packard vows to 'aggressively' seek recompense for alleged fraud on the part of U.K. software vendor Autonomy, which HP acquired in a $10.3 billion deal last year. Read More 2013: Year of the hybrid cloud The time for dabbling in cloud computing is over, say industry analysts. 2013 is the year that companies need to implement a hybrid cloud strategy that puts select workloads in the public cloud and keeps others in-house. Read More
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