Networking World: How to keep your Millennials happy

MIT debuts online Big Data course for tech pros | IT job growth slows

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How to keep your Millennials happy
The much-anticipated wave of Millennials is upon us, with their addiction to social media, their attachment to consumer devices, and their merging of work and personal lives. 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.

In this Issue

RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Comcast

The Network – A Growth Engine for Business
The enterprise network, once the Rodney Dangerfield of IT, has emerged as a key enabler of business agility. Today's employees and customers expect instant access to information, from any location and with any computing device. In this report from Comcast and IDG, learn why investment in network services that provide both scale and flexibility will be critical as a foundation for sustainable growth.

MIT debuts online Big Data course for tech pros
Want to learn more about Big Data? MIT is taking on the buzzy topic in an online course designed for tech pros. Tackling the Challenges of Big Data runs from March 4 to April 1 and costs $495. Read More

IT job growth slows
The tech industry is often touted as a bright spot on an otherwise lackluster hiring scene, but one firm's analysis of recent employment data finds it's not as vibrant as it has been. Read More

Reddit, Mozilla, EFF to hold day of protest, activism in memory of Aaron Swartz
A broad coalition of well-known organizations announced today that it will stage an online protest against wide-ranging government surveillance of Internet users on Feb. 11, in memory of activist Aaron Swartz. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors

Bridging the IT Gap
To overcome today's IT management gap, your organization needs a fresh approach to infrastructure management. There are three key requirements for this new approach to IT management. In this paper, you'll find that three key requirements create the foundation for a management environment that is poised to meet the challenges of a new era in IT. Learn More

Juniper SDN veteran lands at Brocade
Brocade has named former Cisco and Juniper engineer Benson Schliesser as distinguished engineer, responsible for helping shape the company's network virtualization strategy. Read More

Foiled! How to beat software vendors' sneaky price increases
Between complex licenses and the cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have lots of ways to hike up prices. Here's how to fight back. Read More

IBM bets big on Watson-branded cognitive computing
IBM sees cognitive computing as the new frontier of computing and is positioning its Watson architecture as the way forward in this new landscape, for both the company and its customers. 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

Senior managers fumble security much more often than rank and file
Senior managers are the worse offenders of information security, because of a combination of job pressures, busy schedules and an attitude that they are above the rules, an expert says. Read More

3D printer prices drop, food printers arrive at CES
The number of 3D printer vendors rose from five last year to more than 20 this year, and prices for their machines have come down dramatically. Read More

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

SLIDESHOWS

2014's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

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

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