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What's your favorite enterprise IT product?
It's time for Fave Raves, our annual call for the best products, as chosen by readers. Do you have a favorite enterprise IT product you can't live without? Tell us about it and we'll share your raves with our readers. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Phoenix NAP

Eliminate Virtualization Management Challenges
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.

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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.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on cloud services, the source of ideas and life after Steve Jobs
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been speaking about communication within companies, the possibilities presented by cloud services, and his role at Fusion-io since the death of Steve Jobs in a new interview published this week. Read More

How OpenStack Should Prepare Itself for the Enterprise
With major vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM and RackSpace throwing their weight behind OpenStack, the project is poised to be a preeminent private cloud player. But discussions at the recent OpenStack Summit show that the project does have some growing up to do before it gets there. Read More

Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform
Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well as Amazon's Redshift service. Read More

WHITE PAPER: VMware, Cisco and NetApp

Oracle RAC Built on FlexPod with VMware
This technical white paper for Database Administrators (DBA) and Data Architects demonstrates how enterprises can apply best practices to deploy Oracle Database 11g R2 GRID Infrastructure with RAC option. Read Now!

New CA CEO looks to transform the company to SaaS provider
CA Technologies' recently appointed CEO, Michael Gregoire, has vowed to make the company an innovator in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and has asked his customers to upgrade to the latest releases in order to make the transition as smooth as possible. Read More

Squeezing savings from the cloud
Calculating the real ROI of cloud apps requires the analysis of a lot of factors, and cutting corners on that process means you might not save money. Read More

Skyhigh Networks helps you discover every cloud service your company uses
There's hardly a company that doesn't have a problem with cloud services creating "shadow IT." That is, employees using services that you may or may not know about. Most CIOs think their company uses about 25 to 40 cloud services, but the reality is more like 200 to 400. Skyhigh Networks lets you discover and control all the cloud services your company uses -- whether you've authorized them or not. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Eaton Corporation

The Essential Guide to Managing Power
In this interactive KnowledgeVault, you'll find short videos, white papers, case studies, briefs and more, all designed to tackle the issues surrounding electrical power and how to better manage it in light of the demands caused by virtualization and cloud computing. Learn More

Citrix pitches cloud-based web casts with GoToWebcast
Citrix System's GoToWebcast has become generally available in North America and Europe, offering users a cloud-based webcasting tool for up to 5,000 attendees. Read More

BroadSoft CEO: Here's why communications is moving to the cloud
Michael Tessler cofounded BroadSoft in 1998 after coming from Alcatel, and has since grown it into a publicly traded company with annual revenue of more than $160 million. In a recent interview with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Tessler explained how Broadsoft sees the hosted communications landscape and the role of mobile devices. Read More

Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamoring for enterprise customers
Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors. Read More

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