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	Tech pros getting MBAs: Necessary or not? Earning an MBA can help tech pros to bridge the gap between business and IT, but it's no guarantee of career success, nor does it automatically translate into a bigger salary. 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 In this Issue EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers The year in madly cool robots Two years after debut, Gingerbread still dominant Android OS The 10 most influential smartphones ever What's Amazon's enterprise strategy for the cloud? How to hire, manage and even appreciate Millennial IT workers Qualcomm aims to bring quad-core phones to the masses EMC and VMware spin out big data/cloud division Steve Jobs film starring Ashton Kutcher to be Sundance 2013's grand finale IBM closes $1.3B Kenexa acquisition 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! EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. Read More The year in madly cool robots From giants to itsy-bitsy shape shifters, robots are hot. Read More Two years after debut, Gingerbread still dominant Android OS Although Google's Android has made some impressive leaps forward over the last two years, roughly half of its users aren't seeing those improvements because 50.8 percent of Android devices are still running Android 2.3, known as Gingerbread. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Make Your Sharepoint Social IBM can help extend your current SharePoint implementation to include true social capabilities reducing the friction associated with discovering, sharing and collaborating within a team, across the company or with your business partners and customers. Learn More The 10 most influential smartphones ever Our look back at the highlights of the smartphone's lightning-fast rise to prominence. Read More What's Amazon's enterprise strategy for the cloud? Roaming the floor of Amazon Web Services' first user conference last week, it didn't look like a traditional tech show. Many of the 6,000 attendees were with startups or midsize businesses looking to learn more about AWS services or the public cloud. Read More How to hire, manage and even appreciate Millennial IT workers A recent survey reveals that hiring managers are far more likely to hire IT pros from Generation-X or baby-boomers than they are to hire from the millennial generation. Find out what's behind this trend and why you have to learn to stop worrying and love millennials. 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 Qualcomm aims to bring quad-core phones to the masses Qualcomm is preparing two new quad-core processors for the mainstream smartphone market, with support for several Chinese standards. Read More EMC and VMware spin out big data/cloud division VMware and EMC today confirmed rumors that have been circulating for weeks that it would spin out its big data and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud products into a new division within the company named Pivotal Initiative, which will be led by former VMware chief Paul Maritz. Read More Steve Jobs film starring Ashton Kutcher to be Sundance 2013's grand finale The widely anticipated Steve Jobs biopic, dubbed "jOBS," will close out this coming January's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Read More IBM closes $1.3B Kenexa acquisition IBM has closed its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Kenexa, intended to boost IBM's enterprise social collaboration offerings with Kenexa's cloud-based human resources applications and IT services. Read More
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