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	5 reasons IT should choose a hosted UC solution There are a number of benefits of hosted UC solutions that are specific to the IT department. These reasons may fly under the radar of the C-level executives or line-of-business managers, but they're significant to IT organizations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 4 Ways WAN Optimization Can Benefit Your Organization WAN optimization has evolved into a complete system that optimizes traffic across a broad range of most popular applications while providing deep visibility into performance. 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Follow the leaders and find out why more than 100,000 customers worldwide rely on Salesforce CRM applications to transform their businesses. Read More! Marissa Mayer: CEO of the year 1955 Think back to the mid 80s. Michael J. Fox starring in the hit movie "Back to the Future." His 1981 DeLorean, powered by the flux capacitor invented by the esteemed Dr. Emmett Brown, was sent back in time to Hill Valley on the date of November 5, 1955. What was going on in 1955? Well, we know George McFly was still in school. We also know that Goldie Wilson was thinking of running for Mayor of Hill Valley. And we know that no one telecommuted back then, and working from the office was the norm. Read More New security tool serves Amazon Cloud users For many IT managers, moving your company's backbone to the cloud brings a certain sense of freedom. However, the task of caring for and protecting your assets remains. After all, the operative word in "virtual server" is "server"; virtual or not, it's still a fully functioning server from an operational sense, carrying the same risks and vulnerabilities inherent in physical servers. You'll need vulnerability management tools to ensure those servers are secure. Read More Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by promoting interoperability and common standards. Read More Forrester: 70% of "private clouds" aren't really clouds at all If an enterprise data center has a highly virtualized environment, a web portal for business users to request and access virtual machines and a method for tracking how many of those resources are being used... that's not quite a private cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Phoenix NAP Advantages of a Hosted Private Cloud A hosted private cloud can offer many advantages for organizations looking to benefit from a secure cloud model. This white paper details how the hosted private cloud can address security and compliance concerns, deliver scale-up and scale-down capabilities, reduce costs and improve IT utilization all while minimizing loss of control by IT. Learn more. Azure outage births free cert monitoring software Cloud crash made Stackify mad as hell, so it did something about it. Read More INSIDER 5 Things IT Pros Need to Know About SaaS Governance Software as a service is here to stay. So CIOs need the tools to manage their sprawling portfolios of SaaS applications with the same rigor they use for on-premise software. Read More Huawei launches OpenStack-powered cloud aimed service providers Chinese telecom giant Huawei today announced FusionCloud, an OpenStack-powered cloud aimed mostly at carrier providers. Read More Cloud security forecast: Murky with an 80% chance of finger pointing Despite the best efforts of cloud service providers and industry groups like the Cloud Security Alliance, cloud security remains a troublesome issue for IT execs. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Asset and Lifecycle Management that Puts You in Control In this Webcast you will learn now to gain control by effectively deploying people, processes and tools. And you will learn how to face a software license audit successfully with asset and lifecycle management software that is comprehensive, accurate and easy to use. Learn More. School in the Cloud concept wins $1M TED Prize for 2013 Sugata Mitra, an educational researcher in England, has won the $1 TED Prize for social entrepreneurship for his plan to build an online learning lab for kids in India called School in the Cloud. Read More Chromebook Pixel review: A luxury laptop for life in the cloud A deep-dive review of Google's new Chromebook Pixel laptop, which has high-quality hardware and an amazing touch-based display -- and a few limitations. So at $1,300, is it the laptop for you? Read More Review: Office 365 turns up the heat Latest blend of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync servers in the cloud combines an excellent feature set with easier setup and management. Read More INSIDER Cloud Computing Leads to Competitive Advantage for Healthcare Firm A healthcare CIO moves aggressively to cloud computing so the IT staff is freed up to focus on IT innovations that advance the company's core mission. Read More
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