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	INSIDER How to become an IT Innovator Innovation has become a top concern for companies seeking a competitive edge in today's business world, especially as more organizations face new competitors that are using technology as a business disruptor. Read More WEBCAST: PC Connection VSPEX Moves Cloud Forward The advantages of a virtualized data center are clear, but how do you build upon that work to create a private cloud? This webinar presents solutions specially designed to help accelerate your transition to virtualized data center architecture, and advance your journey to the cloud. Do you have questions about how best to accelerate your Journey to the Cloud and increase performance, agility, and scalability of your traditional data center? Join this webcast to learn how to move from a traditional to virtual data center. In this Issue What's next for Wi-Fi? Forrester: PaaS makes developers happy With faster 5G Wi-Fi coming, Wi-Fi Alliance kicks off certification program IT capital spending rises, but not for PCs The Large Hadron Collider shows its insides as upgrade work commences Open Data Center Alliance tackles big data analysis Venture firm Accel makes another huge Big Data bet Facebook set to beef up Instagram with video? Power to the people: AT&T sets up free mobile charging stations in NYC Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux? WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc. Network protection and UTM Buyers Guide This buyers guide is designed to help you choose the right solution for your organization. It looks at the factors you should consider when evaluating solutions to ensure you have the protection and functionality you need, both now and as your business evolves. View Now What's next for Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi is blossoming in the enterprise as organizations find new ways to leverage the wireless infrastructure and workers, having benefited from mobility, demand increased range and better performance (and support for all those devices they are bringing in from home). The industry is responding in kind, introducing new products and technologies, including gigabit Wi-Fi, and it is up to IT to bring it orchestrate this new mobile symphony. Read More Forrester: PaaS makes developers happy Although the platform as a service (PaaS) market is smaller than both IaaS and SaaS segments of the cloud computing industry, research firm Forrester says this technology could be one of the most important cloud-based services for businesses moving forward. Read More With faster 5G Wi-Fi coming, Wi-Fi Alliance kicks off certification program The Wi-Fi Alliance unveiled a certification program for 802.11ac Wi-Fi (also known as 5G Wi-Fi) designed to make sure devices using the wireless technology interoperate with older hardware. Read More WEBCAST: Sprint The Network Foundation of an IT-to-ET Transformation There's an evolutionary process at work that will eventually affect every enterprise IT department. Nemertes Research describes it as a transformation from IT to ET – Enterprise Technology. Learn More IT capital spending rises, but not for PCs While Windows 8 is getting blamed for dismal PC sales, upgrading laptops and desktop systems isn't a priority for business users, according to new research. Read More The Large Hadron Collider shows its insides as upgrade work commences Almost a year after the Higgs boson announcement, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is getting upgraded. Read More Open Data Center Alliance tackles big data analysis The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers. Read More WEBCAST: Fluke Networks Best Practices Performance Monitoring Recorded Webinar Webinar will examine the driving factors, objectives, requirements, and best practices surrounding converged network and application performance management. Learn More Venture firm Accel makes another huge Big Data bet Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups. Read More Facebook set to beef up Instagram with video? Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos. Read More Power to the people: AT&T sets up free mobile charging stations in NYC AT&T today announced a pilot project of solar-powered charging stations across all five of New York City's boroughs where the public can charge phones, tablets and other devices for free. Read More Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux? Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack. Read More
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