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	Predicting the Tech Future For my recent column of predictions for 2013 I polled a huge number of IT people to see what they are expecting, and ended up getting more than 400 responses. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Leveraging Your Virtual Environment For Rapid Recovery Read this e-Book to learn about the common roadblocks to broadly roll out virtualization, the challenges of virtualization availability, and the key functionalities to look for in a best in class backup and availability solution. Read Now! In this Issue Windows Phone 8 may have a fighting chance The Curse of Compliance Arista TAPs into a hot market for SDN apps Unlock a Phone – Go To Jail? If Xbox rumors are true, Microsoft may be making a huge mistake 3 Open Source Trends that May Affect Your Development Team in the Near Future WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation Powerful Application Solutions for CRM & ERP This white paper examines how you can get the most from CRM and ERP, find the best system for your business and how IBM can help. Learn More. Windows Phone 8 may have a fighting chance Gartner has released 2012 worldwide smartphone sales figures, and three companies have something to crow about: Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft. Well, Nokia and HTC by way of Microsoft. Regardless, WP8 now has real momentum. Worldwide mobile phone sales totaled 1.75 billion units in 2012, a 1.7% decline from 2011 sales. The last time that happened was in 2009, and for the same reason: a bad economic... Read More The Curse of Compliance I used to work with a guy who was significantly overweight. I ran into him in the cafeteria one day and he mentioned that his doctor recommended that he eschew large lunches in favor of lighter foods like salads. He proceeded to the salad bar where he buried a few greens, onions, and tomatoes under a mountain of cheese, deli meats, and blue cheese dressing. So my fellow employee was complying with... Read More WEBCAST: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Easily Achieve Disaster Recovery Objectives with Silver Peak How Silver Peak Systems ensure recovery point objectives (RPO) are achieved. Gunnersen was amazed by Silver Peak's data mobility performance, price and deployment ease. Learn more. Arista TAPs into a hot market for SDN apps Despite the hype around software defined networks (SDNs), the industry has yet to find a legitimate "low-hanging fruit" for the network technology. It appears, though, that one might be emerging, as several vendors have announced TAP aggregation as an SDN application. Earlier this year, when Big Switch launched the company it announced its own product called Big TAP. Later, Cisco released TAP aggregation... Read More Unlock a Phone – Go To Jail? I have argued for some time that the predominant model of carriers subsidizing handsets makes absolutely no sense. Carriers should carry; competition among carriers based on a wide variety of factors should hold down the price of service. But a carrier owning a customer by locking the user's handset is about as anti-competitive as it gets. Sure, the handset is subsidized, but what does a consumer... Read More WHITE PAPER: Fiberlink Communications Mobile Device Management: Your Guide to the Essentials Smartphones and tablets have become the tools of choice for today's workers - adding a whole new world of concern for corporate IT. How do we protect corporate data? What devices are accessing email and network resources? What does a Bring Your Own Device program truly mean for security and corporate liability? Learn More If Xbox rumors are true, Microsoft may be making a huge mistake There's no feeling of relief like a rumor proven wrong, and I hope to hell that the latest rumors on the next-generation Xbox are completely off the market. If they are true, they are a bad sign for the industry. EDGE Online has the rumored details and specs on the next-generation console, which some fans call the Xbox 720. The specs look great and rumors of a Blu-ray player are excellent news. Read... Read More 3 Open Source Trends that May Affect Your Development Team in the Near Future As a professional web developer, staying on top of the latest trends in technology and software is of utmost importance. The top open source tools and packages used by engineers and developers rarely stay on top for long. Keeping track of what is current in the ecosystem can sometimes be a moving target. Following are developments – in the development world – that are perhaps too large for your... Read More
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