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	Fixing process exceptions. And music on hold Gibbs wrestles with a lost medical insurance payment ... for five hours Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now In this Issue Cisco sees big plans for Big Data Extreme Slaloms its way toward an end-to-end SDN solution Brocade evolves the storage network Three reasons you shouldn't neglect your application security White Hat Security: Top 10 most insidious web-based attacks & hacking techniques CIA Chief advises you to ask: What are your rights? Who owns your data? WHITE PAPER: ReadSoft Large-scale BPO automation market trends and solutions Increasing competition and financial concerns are putting pressure on Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to deliver increased service and automation rates. Download this whitepaper to discover technology solutions that allow you to provide customers tailor-made service and added value at a competitive price. Learn More Cisco sees big plans for Big Data Two-thirds of IT managers recently surveyed by Cisco believe Big Data will be a strategic priority for their companies over the next five years. Sixty percent said they believe Big Data can help improve decision making and global competitiveness. Read More Extreme Slaloms its way toward an end-to-end SDN solution Big Switch stole many of the networking headlines this week when it announced its Switch Light software release. Switch Light, based on the open source technology Indigo, can be used on commodity white box switches to create an OpenFlow-based switch than can be used as part of a software defined network implementation. One of the elements of the press release that I felt flew under the radar, was that... Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Good APM Practices Get Results According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More. Brocade evolves the storage network Normally, when a vendor is the undisputed king of a market, there's a risk of the company taking their eye off the ball and letting markets slip away. BlackBerry in the smartphone market, 3Com with NIC cards and switches, and Nortel with almost everything they made are some examples of this. However, every once in a while vendors do surprise by trying to change the very market they dominate. Sure,... Read More Three reasons you shouldn't neglect your application security With so much emphasis on all forms of security these days, business applications remain one of the most vulnerable and most frequently exploited IT components. Investment in application monitoring should be a part of a comprehensive defense strategy. Keith Brogan of managed security provider Vigilant provides his thoughts on the importance of application security. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Big Data Requires a Remodeling of the Data Warehouse Take a few moments to learn about a data warehouse appliance that is a massively parallel server optimized to run Microsoft's SQL Server that delivers enterprise scalability, ease of maintenance, and a single version of the truth, all for a low cost. Read Now! White Hat Security: Top 10 most insidious web-based attacks & hacking techniques As you probably know, Grossman has been listing the Top Ten Hacks since 2006, focusing on new and creative web attacks. The number of attacks and the creative methods to create web chaos increase every year. 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
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