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	Survey: 1 in 3 'mission-critical' applications now in cloud About 1 in 3 "mission-critical" applications are currently in the cloud, and this is expected to increase to 1 in 2 by 2015, according to a survey of 400 IT and business managers published today. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle America's Cup Analytics Dashboard in Action Watch this Webcast and you will have the opportunity to experience a live demo of the analytics dashboard. It's a great opportunity to see what analytics can do for your business Learn More In this Issue INSIDER How IT can become a driver of business growth SharePoint 2010 cheat sheet: Visual tour SDN switch company takes aim at the cloud Consultancy launches DIY cloud, OpenStack-style Is the cloud the right place for your data warehouse? Who's next? Facebook outage follows Gmail outage on Monday 5 tips for working with SharePoint 2010 What Does a Cloud IT Career Really Mean? INSIDER Game on: Enterprise apps gain gaming features to boost usage Microsoft puts SkyDrive app on Xbox360 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial INSIDER How IT can become a driver of business growth IT departments excel at boosting efficiency but fall short of driving business growth, according to a study from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Read More SharePoint 2010 cheat sheet: Visual tour How to find your way around SharePoint 2010 and make the most of its features. Read More SDN switch company takes aim at the cloud SDN switch vendor Pica8 this week unveiled a reference architecture intended to help cloud providers develop their programmable networks using Pica8 products. 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! Consultancy launches DIY cloud, OpenStack-style Cloud consultancy Mirantis today released a series of support options to help customers launch test or full-scale deployments of OpenStack-powered clouds. Read More Is the cloud the right place for your data warehouse? The single biggest news coming from Amazon Web Service's first user conference recently was the launch of the company's newest service, Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse tool. And it prompts the question: Is the cloud the right place for data warehousing? Read More Who's next? Facebook outage follows Gmail outage on Monday Just hours after the web exploded with complaints about Gmail being down, Facebook users got their turn to complain late this afternoon. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! 5 tips for working with SharePoint 2010 Techniques for using SharePoint 2010 to its maximum benefit. Read More What Does a Cloud IT Career Really Mean? The term cloud computing has become part of the vernacular in companies of all industries and sizes. Over the past few years, more and more companies are moving to the cloud to save money, scale more easily and achieve faster times to production. Read More INSIDER Game on: Enterprise apps gain gaming features to boost usage Adding a competitive component to enterprise software improves adoption and real-time decision-making, gamification advocates say. Read More Microsoft puts SkyDrive app on Xbox360 A new SkyDrive app for Microsoft's Xbox 360 allows users to upload content to Microsoft's cloud storage service from PCs and mobile devices, and then view it on the game console. Read More
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