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	Box has been thinking outside of the cloud Many people think of Box as a cloud company. But really, it's a collaboration company, says Vikrant Karnik, senior vice president of enterprise cloud consulting services for systems integrator Capgemini, a newly minted Box partner. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Juniper Networks Who will win the Data Center Rap Battle? It may seem like the calm, cool center of the business, but there's a battle raging in the data center between the guardians of physical infrastructure and the innovators of virtualization. There's only one way forward. See how Juniper Networks and our corporate rap coach resolve the epic struggle in a way that makes everyone a winner. Watch the forces of physical and the virtues of virtual battle it out. In this Issue The help desk is hot again Intel to acquire wireless assets of Mindspeed Technologies Nearly a week in, Yahoo still fixing email woes Why few want to be the CIO anymore Dell joins forces with Dropbox to boost hosted storage for enterprises Geek-themed Meme of the Week: System is Down Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive WHITE PAPER: AppNeta AppNeta Trace View - Free Trial Download Want to try AppNeta in your own application environment? Install in 5 minutes! Learn More The help desk is hot again If you thought the traditional help desk would be outsourced, automated or altogether shut down, think again. Hiring for the help desk is hot. Insider (registration required) Read More Intel to acquire wireless assets of Mindspeed Technologies Intel is taking steps to acquire wireless assets in order to compete with chip rivals such as Qualcomm and Mellanox in the mobile device and data center market. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE The Sky's the Limit for Eclipse Aerospace and VCE Learn how Eclipse was able to virtualize the entire data center without any business disruption, dramatically reduce IT infrastructure hardware costs and easily migrate SAP business applications, Siemens Teamcenter and NX CAD server software. Learn More Nearly a week in, Yahoo still fixing email woes Nearly a week after Yahoo's email service crashed, the company is still working to bring it all back. Read More Why few want to be the CIO anymore Stephanie Jurenka started out in IT as a systems administrator more than 10 years ago. Today, she's an IT manager with absolutely zero interest in a CIO role. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco and Netapp Total Economic Impact Of FlexPod Data Center Platform FlexPod is a data center platform jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco that delivers networking, computing and storage. This Forrester report offers key findings from Forrester's interviews with FlexPod customers. View Now Dell joins forces with Dropbox to boost hosted storage for enterprises Dropbox is getting help from Dell to convince enterprises to pick its hosted storage and file-sharing platform, and also to make it more secure. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: System is Down Edition No. 26 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series features Bill Murray as Caddyshack's Carl Spackler expressing a frustration that has been experienced many a time by both call center representatives and customers. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": Read More Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. Read More
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