Why your next big IT project is doomed

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	Why your next big IT project is doomed Have you had a IT project go astray? Maybe you were lucky and it was a brief hiccup with minimal financial consequences. Or maybe you had a disaster of biblical proportions, such as the one that befell Levi Strauss in 2008. Read More WHITE PAPER: SiSense Ltd. Choosing the Right Tech for Your Business Analytics Project The size, speed and scalability of different business analytics technologies vary greatly. The advantages and disadvantages of RDBMS, In-Memory and In-Chip technologies are detailed in this report. Read Now! In this Issue 'Bigfoot' SDN sightings and Internet of Whats? highlight Cisco survey MTBF, MTTR and SLAs, oh my Enterprise vendors: There's no such thing as product secrecy any more Cisco's OpenFlow basher jumps to Big Switch Windows 8: 100 million licenses sold, but how many in use? NSA's secret manual on Google searching and more comes to light Mobile Computing Security Mayhem Continues WHITE PAPER: F5 Drive Out Bottlenecks in the Application Delivery Chain Fueled by users who are hyper-sensitive to delays in application delivery, organizations are seeking solutions that can help them root out and eliminate delivery latency. This paper examines the role of Application Delivery Optimization to improve application performance in the data center and beyond. Learn More! 'Bigfoot' SDN sightings and Internet of Whats? highlight Cisco survey SDN and "The Internet of Things" are two of the hotter topics in the industry today, thanks to industry coalescence and Cisco marketing, respectively. But Cisco admits that less than half of those who work in IT are even vaguely familiar with "The Internet of Things." Read More MTBF, MTTR and SLAs, oh my Continuing our look into myths of why enterprises "need" MPLS. Today we'll consider two more: Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Inc Remote Management and Control for Business Continuity Data centers are susceptible to a variety of disasters, attributable to human error, system breakdowns and other factors. Secure remote access and control are essential to minimizing fallout. This white paper focuses on solutions that allow quick access and recovery of virtually any server. Learn more. Enterprise vendors: There's no such thing as product secrecy any more Some enterprise vendors try to keep what they are offering away from what they think might be the wrong eyes. This is never a good idea. Read More Cisco's OpenFlow basher jumps to Big Switch Here's a jawdropper, and a PR coup for Big Switch: Prashant Gandhi, senior director of the Server Access Virtualization Technology Group at Cisco - he of the "OpenFlow is a fantasy" rant at a March tech blogger meeting - has jumped to OpenFlow crusader Big Switch Networks. Gandhi will run product strategy and development there. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Technology Eliminate Network Finger-Pointing Cascade Demo: With Cascade, you get visibility into network optimization and analysis, application performance management, IT consolidation, and security. Watch as Jack, the manager of the network team, deals with user complaints about application performance. See how he uses Riverbed Cascade to solve them. Learn more! Windows 8: 100 million licenses sold, but how many in use? Windows 8 has passed the 100 million mark. That's the word from Tami Reller, the CFO of the Windows division at Microsoft. In a Q&A conducted by another Microsoft employee and posted to the Windows blog (that's some hard hittin' journalism, there), Reller discussed the facts and figures of Windows 8 at the six-month mark. Read More NSA's secret manual on Google searching and more comes to light Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request from MudRock, we can now feast our eyes upon a 643-page manual from the NSA titled, "Untangling the Web: A guide to Internet Research." As the name implies, the manual is a how-to with respect to conducting detailed online research. Wired pinpoints some particularly interesting factoids from the manual: Read More Mobile Computing Security Mayhem Continues I spent the week in Washington DC last week discussing cybersecurity legislation and Federal IT security issues. As part of the tour, I gave a presentation on mobile computing security at the historical Willard hotel. Before discussing MDM, MAM, mobile data security, or anti-malware, I started my session with a few data points from various ESG research projects: Read More
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