Looking Back at Our 2013 Predictions: How Did We Do?

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	Looking Back at Our 2013 Predictions: How Did We Do? Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Predictive Performance: Measuring the Digital Experience As websites get more immersive and more complex, organizations need to rethink what, and how, digital experience performance is measured. Speed (or responsiveness) is only one of several factors to consider. Learn More In this Issue Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness Tricks and tips that will help you get the most out of those new Xmas gadgets "Minority Report" meets PC support WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Virtualizing Your Infrastructure with a Path to the Cloud IT needs to deliver more services, with greater agility and a high level of availability while keeping operational expenses low. This paper explains 5 reasons to deploy blades as you build out your virtualized infrastructure. Learn More Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop The trio of Cisco, VMware and Citrix are teaming up to provide a new cloud-based desktop as a service (DaaS) offering aimed mostly at service providers. The move comes just weeks after Amazon Web Services announced its foray into the DaaS market, and could signal a wave of new DaaS offerings in the market early next year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc. How to Choose the Right Mobile Engagement Partner Forrester just defined a new class of partner: the Mobile Engagement Provider. Learn how to identify a partner that can help you create outstanding mobile solutions. Learn More Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness Glue Networks, a developer of software-defined wide area networking products, has landed $12.4 million in new funding from unidentified private investors. The company also got a big sales boost from Cisco, which now includes Glue products on its price list and will compensate 14,000 sales people for selling them. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Holistic Application Management for Cloud Environments As organizations move their business-critical applications into increasingly complex cloud and hybrid IT environments, they can draw upon IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management capabilities to facilitate application management. Read Now Tricks and tips that will help you get the most out of those new Xmas gadgets Did you get a new tablet, smartphone or laptop for the holidays? If so, you'll want to tune it to your interests/needs to get the most out of it. Here is a list of resources that can help: Read More "Minority Report" meets PC support In the 2002 sci-fi flick Minority Report, the so-called "pre-cogs" could supposedly predict crimes before they actually occured. In 2013, Dell claims its technical support opereations can predict product failures before they occur. Read More
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