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	10 Tech Products to Boost Your Small Business Productivity From mini storage arrays to IP cameras to print servers, these 10 hardware devices will help you run your small business more efficiently whether you're in the office or hitting the road to close a deal. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: InterMapper The #1 real-time network mapping and monitoring tool. InterMapper provides an at-a-glance, real-time view of your network devices, services, applications, connections and traffic patterns. Drilling down on maps uncovers details needed to fix performance problems. It is an industrial strength monitoring, mapping and alerting tool that empowers network administrators to maintain healthy IT environments. In this Issue Army takes a flier on OpenSim Progress report: Building, and managing, the 21st century data center Fixing process exceptions. And music on hold CIA Chief advises you to ask: What are your rights? Who owns your data? Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply INSIDER How to tell if your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off Apple leverages Wi-Fi location with latest acquisition BlackBerry Z10 launches in the U.S. eBay develops metric for data center performance WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Winning Strategies for Omnichannel Banking Research reveals new ways for banks to prosper. Customers are ready for omnichannel experiences. Respond now-learn how to manage the transition to omnichannel banking and reap the rewards of delivering innovative services. Read Now Army takes a flier on OpenSim The U.S. Army is not new to using simulated virtual environments for training. In fact, almost all soldiers have used virtual simulations, according to Douglas Maxwell, the science and technology manager for virtual world strategic applications at the Army's Simulation & Training Technology Center in Orlando. Read More Progress report: Building, and managing, the 21st century data center Even if you've never heard of Flextronics you have probably used or benefited from one of the products this global digital equipment manufacturer has helped assemble -- a Microsoft Xbox 360, for example, or components that show up in everything from Cisco and Motorola devices to aerospace and automotive equipment. Read More Fixing process exceptions. And music on hold Gibbs wrestles with a lost medical insurance payment ... for five hours Read More CIA Chief advises you to ask: What are your rights? Who owns your data? The cloud is old news, it's "so three years ago," and Big Data "was so last year," but according to the CIA's Chief Technology Officer, Ira "Gus" Hunt, this year is about "how to get value" from Big Data. At the GigaOM Structure Data conference, Hunt presented, "The CIA's 'Grand Challenges" with Big Data" and I highly recommend that you take about 30 minutes to personally listen to it. Read More Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply Sure, you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes. Read More INSIDER How to tell if your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off As businesses make more use of social networks, the number of engagement, analysis and monitoring tools has exploded. Enterprises are trying to understand their return on social media investments, to find out if their Twitter and Facebook marketing campaigns are actually delivering customers. They want to track social mentions across multiple networks and be responsive to both kudos and complaints. Read More Apple leverages Wi-Fi location with latest acquisition Apple has bought a small software startup that lets smartphones and tablets pinpoint their location indoors using nearby Wi-Fi signals. The move apparently is part of the company's efforts to expand and strengthen its location services, which it has developed as an alternative to Google Maps. Read More BlackBerry Z10 launches in the U.S. BlackBerry Z10 launches in the U.S. Read More eBay develops metric for data center performance There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with a new measurement for doing both. Read More
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