Why Cisco lost two key officials in data center, cloud

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	Why Cisco lost two key officials in data center, cloud Company too slow to respond or not committed enough to newer networking trends. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: 8x8 UC: Come for HIPAA Compliance, Stay for Savings This dental office manager ditched her old VoIP business phone system provider because she couldn't get a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement to document compliance. Then she discovered how to use her new VoIP phone system to save money, too. Read her story In this Issue 10 (mostly) free Exchange admin tools Vegas to NY to San Diego … for $19,422? CloudFlare can provide its caching service without your SSL keys Consumer drives shown to be more reliable than enterprise drives A closer look at CIO salaries, bonuses and perks Apple releases iCloud Drive for Windows PCs Cloud failures will happen. Are you ready? FIRST LOOK: Ray Ozzie's Talko cloud calling/messaging iPhone app SAP buying Concur for $8.3 billion to boost cloud portfolio WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Enterprise Cloud Deployment Strategies Three primary cloud deployment strategies are available today for enterprise software—public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. However, many vendors force enterprises to choose between data security or cloud deployment flexibility; they're either unable or unwilling to give the enterprise both. Learn More 10 (mostly) free Exchange admin tools Troubleshooting does not have to be expensive, nor does daily administration of your mail servers and messaging environment. There are, in fact, a wealth of resources available for Exchange administrators to monitor health, administer users, migrate mailboxes to the cloud and even take care of old data that is stored insecurely and uncatalogued. But it's often difficult to know where to look for these software assists. Read More Vegas to NY to San Diego … for $19,422? These glitches – I'm assuming it's a glitch -- are a lot more fun when people get pricey flights for pennies on the dollar, but this one's a doozy nonetheless. Holger Mueller, principal analyst and cloud guy for Constellation Research, this morning tweeted the above screen capture that would seem to indicate United Airlines wants just short of $20,000 to fly him from Las Vegas to New York to San Diego. And I circled the best part. Read More CloudFlare can provide its caching service without your SSL keys The company said it has made an encryption breakthrough that will put financial institutions at ease. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: PC Connection Need to justify a storage refresh? Get SMART, get started. Storage modernization unlocks the full potential of your data center. It increases storage capacity, boosts performance, and reduces costs per gigabyte. Click to continue Consumer drives shown to be more reliable than enterprise drives Cloud service provider Backblaze has updated its study of hard drive failure rates from 27,000 drives to more than 38,000. The results show higher capacity drives often fail more often, and that Seagate drives fail the most. Read More A closer look at CIO salaries, bonuses and perks CIO salaries in the U.S. average between $153,000 and $246,750. But salary is just the beginning. Cash bonuses and equity awards can propel pay packages into the millions. To get a more complete tally, we scoured the proxy statements of the 500 largest U.S. companies and found 26 that disclosed CIO pay. Among those 26 IT leaders, median pay is $2.2 million. Read More Apple releases iCloud Drive for Windows PCs Mac users have to wait for the release of OS X Yosemite to snag iCloud Drive support. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee SIEM: Five Requirements that Solve Bigger Business Issues McAfee spoke with SIEM users and asked them to tell us about their primary issues with SIEM. This brief lists the top five issues along with corresponding customer case studies and use cases. Learn More>> Cloud failures will happen. Are you ready? Even if you use the most reputable cloud services and products, things are bound to go awry from time to time, so it's crucial to be prepared for failures. Mitigating the risk is as simple as being adequately prepared. Read More FIRST LOOK: Ray Ozzie's Talko cloud calling/messaging iPhone app I never did use Ray Ozzie's Lotus Notes or Groove (acquired by Microsoft) collaboration tools, mainly because the companies I worked for didn't use them, though I have interviewed the famed software designer and watched his colorful career unfold over the years. So when Ozzie's latest venture, Talko, released its free calling/messaging app for iPhones today, I decided I would give it a whirl and rope my colleague, Michael Cooney, into testing it with me. Read More SAP buying Concur for $8.3 billion to boost cloud portfolio The travel and expense software vendor had reportedly been shopping for a potential buyer. Read More
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