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Free tools for Windows Server admins

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Free tools for Windows Server admins
There are endless software tools and utilities out there to help you in managing your network. Here are some of the best free ones. They can help you with deploying, maintaining, troubleshooting, and upgrading Window Servers, your domain, and aid with other miscellaneous network tasks. Read More


WEBCAST: SAP

SAP IT Transformation Forum
On March 6, join us in an exclusive live event featuring Nolan Bushnell, a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, and scientist who's often cited as the father of the video game industry. This event will feature topics on laying the foundations for mobile, Big Data, and cloud applications that business teams require to stay competitive. Learn more

WHITE PAPER: Crittercism

The 2013 Mobile App Performance Management Report
Most enterprises are looking for ways to leverage their investments in web technology to handle mobile app performance, but between monitoring, OS variants, screen sizes and OEMs, this can be a costly and complex approach. This 2013 Mobile APM Report highlights best practices for meeting mobile app challenges and ensuring mobile app performance. Read more!

HP looking for new networking head
HP is looking for a new leader for its networking division as Senior Vice President and General Manager Bethany Mayer is moving on to head the company's new Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) strategy. Read More

IT pros rank University of Texas San Antonio best school for cybersecurity
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) tops a somewhat unexpected list of schools that are considered by security practitioners as the best in the country for cybersecurity courses and degree programs. Read More

Ford unveils new Focus, packed with parking tech
If you're bad at parking your car, whether it's parallel, perpendicular, backing in or backing out, Ford says its new Focus has technology that can help. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

IDC Report: The Future of eMail is Social
This IDC white paper takes a look at the current state of enterprise email and the perceived and real problems that surround its use. The paper discusses the changing nature of collaboration and work fueled by the social Web by examining current email trends and the emergence of new social collaboration tools. Learn More.

Comcast, Netflix reach interconnection deal
Comcast and Netflix have agreed to a multiyear deal that will speed streams from the video service to Comcast's U.S. broadband customers. Read More

Microsoft tries to jumpstart cheap Windows devices with license price cut
Microsoft has cut the price of Windows 8.1 by nearly three-fourths to device makers who produce lower-cost laptops and tablets. Read More

Qualcomm overtakes Apple with eight-core, 64-bit mobile processor
Qualcomm has leaped ahead of Apple in 64-bit mobile chip development with its first eight-core Snapdragon 615 chip for mobile devices, which has integrated LTE and 4K video rendering capabilities. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Dell Software

Quantifying the Impact of Network Based Attacks
This document will give you some guidelines on how to assess the impact of network-based attacks on your organization. We will look at: • Different types of network-based attacks • How those attacks can affect your bottom line • Methods of quantifying the impact of those attacks Learn more!

Juniper broadens SDN for carriers
Juniper Networks this week at Mobile World Congress is expanding its carrier SDN portfolio with controller and management products designed to accelerate customized service creation and provisioning. Read More

Microsoft concedes Windows 8.1 needs more for mouse, keyboard customers
Microsoft on Sunday publicly acknowledged what leaks had shown, that the company will issue an update to Windows 8.1 this spring that provides more tools for owners of traditional PCs controlled by mouse and keyboard. Read More

Cisco's product transitions hitting router share
Perhaps an indication of the tricky product transition it's going through, Cisco's share of the service provider router market slipped 5% in 2013 while Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper gained. Cisco's share slipped from 49% in Q1 to 44% in Q4 of 2013, according to Synergy Research Group. Read More

HP makes play for network virtualization with OpenNFV program
Hewlett-Packard is plunging into the rapidly emerging field of network functions virtualization (NFV), announcing Monday an OpenNV program comprised of applications and services designed to virtualize core networks and network functions and allow telecommunications companies to more efficiently compete in the rapidly growing world of rich media. Read More


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