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	Business dashboards offer striking data visualizations The more data you analyze, the more complex it gets. To help you find value in all that data, visualize it using one of these seven dashboard apps. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Business Impact from IT Agility and Data Center Automation Live Webcast Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT How are your IT peers achieving IT agility? Get the inside scoop from Forrester and Brocade on how enterprise organizations are overcoming IT agility challenges and the results they are achieving – plus get key recommendations and steps you can take to achieve similar results. View now>> In this Issue HP jumps into OpenStack fray with new Helion distribution Are your pipes too big? 7 in 10 office workers barely use Microsoft Office anymore Juniper's corporate strategy chief departs 25 geeky Mother's Day gifts Emails shed light on Google's work with NSA Virtualizing Oracle software: Don't pay for what you don't need Internet of Things may make owning less appealing Workday takes another shot at Oracle, SAP with recruiting app Should CIOs use a carrot or a stick to rein in BYOD workers? Citrix brings desktop management to XenMobile RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Five Ways to Ensure Wireless Networks Keep Up With Demand Is your wireless network running out of bandwidth? You aren't alone. Gartner Research says underestimating demand and inadequate planning will obsolete 80% of wireless networks in less than two years. This doesn't have to happen to you. Discover five ways in which you can keep up with the ever-increasing demands on your wireless networks. Download our executive summary now HP jumps into OpenStack fray with new Helion distribution Joining Red Hat, Oracle, Canonical and others, Hewlett-Packard is releasing its own distribution of the OpenStack cloud hosting software. Read More Are your pipes too big? A few years ago, I was involved in a consulting project with a large healthcare company that was in the middle of a data center migration. What we discovered may seem counterintuitive: this company's pipes were just too big. The company was suffering from a Long Fat Network (LFN). Read More 7 in 10 office workers barely use Microsoft Office anymore Microsoft has two cash cows: Windows and Office. They help offset losers like Bing and Windows Phone and provide the big profits that the non-sexy groups, like tools and server apps, don't provide. Read More WEBCAST: Solutionary, Inc. Avoidance vs. Response: Back to Security Basics This webinar will discuss findings and real-world case studies from the NTT Group 2014 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR). The goal of the 2014 GTIR is to raise awareness for executives and security professionals of how to avoid high-profile information security and data breaches. Learn More Juniper's corporate strategy chief departs Juniper Networks has lost another top executive: Luis Avila-Marco is now the former EVP of Strategy & Corporate Development at Juniper, having left the company two weeks ago to spend more time with family in the Atlanta area, according to sources. Read More 25 geeky Mother's Day gifts Mother's Day is coming up, and we've found 25 gifts inspired by tech, science and math for geek-minded matriarchs. Read More Emails shed light on Google's work with NSA Two sets of emails obtained by Al Jazeera America under a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that Google's cooperation with the National Security Agency may have been less coerced than the company has let on. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Improving Collaboration by Adding Social to Email This paper looks at why email remains the primary mode of communication in business today and the fact that more and more organizations are looking at social software and other real-time communication methods to add to the email experience. Read Now Virtualizing Oracle software: Don't pay for what you don't need Squeezing software cost savings from virtualization projects is tricky for lots of reasons, but can be particularly challenging when it comes to Oracle databases. Here's why, and some tips to help. Read More Internet of Things may make owning less appealing At an Internet of Things conference in Boston, people are well beyond thinking about sensors and analytics. They are considering what happens once these tools are a part of every product sold. The implications are, potentially, huge. Read More Workday takes another shot at Oracle, SAP with recruiting app Workday is expanding its competitive assault against Oracle and SAP with the general availability of Workday Recruiting, an application for finding the most qualified internal and external job candidates. Read More Should CIOs use a carrot or a stick to rein in BYOD workers? Many workers who bring their mobile devices to the office don't care about security, which is forcing IT leaders to take action. Some CIOs offer stipends to help cover mobile expenses in return for BYOD compliance. Others are choosing to throw the kill switch on lost or stolen smartphones. Read More Citrix brings desktop management to XenMobile Citrix Systems wants to manage desktops and mobile devices with the latest version of XenMobile, and is also working on making it easier for XenApp users to upgrade. Read More
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