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	Microsoft dangles $50 carrot in front of XP users Microsoft has anted up in its attempt to convince last-minute laggards to abandon Windows XP by handing a $50 carrot to people who buy a new Windows 8.1 device. Read More WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Getting Agnostic about Mobile Devices The need for flawless, high-performing mobile apps is critical, yet many organizations struggle. This paper explains how to accurately analyze performance of mobile apps, calculate the cost of app failure, and how to develop, deploy and test mobile apps so that malfunctions don't happen. Read more! In this Issue Cisco Unveils New Video Collaboration Products Seagate's latest: Drive fast, App slow VMware launches virtual SAN software Flashy, storage-happy supercomputers due in 2015 CIOs Destined to Be Kings of Customer Data How to Handle the IT Skills Shortage: Architect Your People Big data can help accelerate UC adoption WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation Must-have capabilities for today's warehouse environment Speed, simplicity and affordability: 3 capabilities businesses need from their warehousing environment. IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration gives organizations a complete, multipurpose environment to rapidly distill insight from their data, make timely decisions and capitalize on opportunities View Now Cisco Unveils New Video Collaboration Products Read More Seagate's latest: Drive fast, App slow The data transfer speed improvements that Seagate has made to their drives is remarkably impressive. Read More WEBCAST: Attachmate Modernizing Legacy Applications for Fun and Profit Discover the fastest, simplest way to webify host applications and streamline navigation for internal and external users. Watch this three-minute video podcast on web enablement. View Now. VMware launches virtual SAN software VMware has introduced software designed to make it much easier for its customers to store large numbers of virtual machines (VMs) created with the company's software. Read More Flashy, storage-happy supercomputers due in 2015 Supercomputing speed is typically boosted by adding more processors, but two new systems funded by the National Science Foundation due to go live next January will take an unconventional approach to speed up calculations and data analysis. Read 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! CIOs Destined to Be Kings of Customer Data Despite chatter about CIOs losing clout or eventually reporting to the CMO, a survey of 1,600 CIOs reveals that the IT executives are well-positioned for the future -- if they are willing to step outside of IT. Read More How to Handle the IT Skills Shortage: Architect Your People IT and technology are always going to be moving targets. The pace at which change takes place is furious compared to most industries. Technologies evolve and business objectives change. As a result, the skills required to get the job done must change, too. Finding perfect people who meet a laundry list of qualifications is a dubious task. Read More Big data can help accelerate UC adoption Enterprise Connect, the industry's largest and best show dedicated to Unified Communications and all things collaboration, kicks off next week in Orlando, Florida. I'm expecting to see the typical themes: interoperability, cloud, video and Cisco versus Microsoft. Another theme I'm expecting to see become a bigger topic is "Big Data" for Unified Communications. Read More
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