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Get your WAN optimization delivered as a cloud service
WAN optimization has traditionally been a costly, hardware-heavy solution. Because of the cost and complexities of deployment, it has mostly been a solution for large companies with big budgets. Aryaka offers WAN Optimization as a Service, so now any size company with remote locations can benefit from accelerated access to enterprise or even cloud-hosted SaaS applications. Read More

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WEBCAST: Dell and Intel®

Unleashing the potential of your virtual environment
IT organizations continue to strive for efficiency in their virtual environments. These efforts are often undermined by traditional practices involving the purchase and deployment of infrastructure resulting in suboptimal management environments and inflexible architectures. View Now

15 (FREE!) security tools you should try
There's a long history of free security software, and here are some of the best-known products you can try inside your own network, if only to discover how vulnerable you are. Read More

INSIDER

CIOs and CMOs: Power couple or strange bedfellows?
Marketing departments are shifting significant amounts of their own budgets toward IT-related products and services, independent of what the IT department spends, to the extent that Gartner predicts that by 2017 chief marketing officers (CMO) will spend more money on IT than chief information officers (CIO). Read More

WEBCAST: IBM

Fighting Fraud Videos: IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager
Short videos about IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager (IIM) for Fraud. IIM optimizes the investigation of fraud for customers across many industries in both the commercial and public sector space. Learn More.

6 Mobile Marketing Trends to Leverage in 2014
What will be the best ways to reach mobile shoppers in the new year? Mobile marketing experts reveal which new mobile marketing apps and strategies can help you reach customers on the go. Read More

Bosch says the future is the Internet of Things
Bosch, a company best known as a maker appliances, including stoves, dishwashers, washing machines and coffee makers, is increasing its focus on the Internet of Things. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Dell and Oracle

Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Using Dell Storage
This technical whitepaper describes how Dell storage snapshots can be used to offload the Oracle RMAN backups from the production host to backup server thereby reducing the performance impact on the production database. Read now>>

Tech Performance Issues Plague IT and Businesses
While CIOs and other senior IT leaders focus on being transformational, half of global businesses say they experience tech performance issues daily. What's the problem and how can IT improve things? Read More

12 Big BYOD Predictions for 2014
If you were just getting comfortable with BYOD, brace yourself for new twists and turns. CIOs can expect more devices to enter the enterprise in consumer clothing, real security threats to emerge, new MDM options and much more in 2014. Read More

CIOs Must Balance Cloud Security and Customer Service
Cloud era brings government IT new challenge of keeping data secure while broadening user access. This will require federal CIOs to take a more granular approach to access and encryption. Read More

The one New Year's resolution that really matters to IT
As we roll into a new year, it's all too easy to get caught up in the promise and challenge of new technologies like software defined networking, hybrid clouds, faster Wi-Fi, and so many others. Dealing with the changes and fallout they create will keep enterprises plenty busy in 2014. And they will no doubt affect the way everyone from network admins to CIOs make their everyday decisions. Read More

SLIDESHOWS

2014's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

A look back at the most memorable tech-related happenings of 1989.

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