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	Imagine traveling in an airliner without access to any of your personal electronic devices The reason you're being asked to imagine the horror of air travel with no electronics is that counterterrorism officials here and abroad are reportedly considering just such a restriction in response to heightened concerns about bombs in carry-on luggage. Read More   : Brother International Corp.   Virtual Training Programs for Remote Sales Agents Vehicle Protection Plus can train their sales agents, and get them productive, regardless of location using OmniJoin web conferencing. Find out how. Learn More>> In this Issue New products of the week 12.01.2014 BYOD is saving serious money for IT Public cloud storage can be efficient, but the potential is still limited How to get more out of your virtualized and cloud environments How UPS uses analytics to drive down costs (and no, it doesn't call it big data) SDN tools increase WAN efficiency How to get the most out of your IT talent Top 21 smartwatches and activity trackers for the holidays (and beyond) Schematics for 12.9-inch "iPad Air Plus" emerge with rumored Q2 2014 launch To relieve 'password fatigue,' Intel buys identity management company INSIDER 8 tech buzzwords that you need to know WHITE PAPER: OutSystems Why IT Struggles with Mobility This paper chronicles the adventures and misadventures of the enterprise mobile app journey based on our observations working with industry leaders who have weathered three years of pain to arrive at the same conclusions. Learn More New products of the week 12.01.2014 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as WTI and Opengear. Read More   BYOD is saving serious money for IT Savings have been anecdotal for a while, but now Gartner is measuring real dollar savings. Read More   Public cloud storage can be efficient, but the potential is still limited Public cloud storage can be a cost efficient alternative to rolling your own, but observers warn that it isn't a cure all. Price is the lure. Even if you have room in your data center for expansion, in-house storage infrastructure won't ever be as cost-scalable as a public cloud option, says Forrester analyst Henry Baltazar. And cloud storage will always give you more agility, he says: Once you add storage capacity in your data center, it is likely yours for the life cycle of the equipment.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   : Brother International Corp.   Virtual Training Programs for Remote Sales Agents Vehicle Protection Plus can train their sales agents, and get them productive, regardless of location using OmniJoin web conferencing. Find out how. Learn More>> How to get more out of your virtualized and cloud environments Virtualization has brought great efficiencies to IT, but has created new challenges/new opportunities to save more. Read More   How UPS uses analytics to drive down costs (and no, it doesn't call it big data) When you have an organization the size of UPS – with 99,000 vehicles and 424,000 employees – every single little bit of efficiency that can be squeezed out of daily operations translates into a big deal. UPS has been using analytics to do just that for a long time now, and keeps getting better and better at it. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with UPS Senior Director of Process Management Jack Levis for an update on their latest achievements. How does UPS use analytics to optimize its operations? Let me take you back 15 years ago and then work our way back to today, and then I'll give you a glimpse into the future. Also, to frame the discussion, let's think of analytics in three forms: descriptive analytics says, "Where am I today?"; predictive analytics says, "With my current trajectory, where will I be headed tomorrow?"; and then at the highest level you have prescriptive analytics, and that's where you say, "Where should I be?"To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   SDN tools increase WAN efficiency Configuring, maintaining and changing WAN infrastructure can be a nightmare given the distributed nature of the beast and all the remote touch points, but emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools promise to make these operations more efficient. Usually touted as a data center tool, SDN can be used to automate and manage WAN operations, says Zeus Kerravala, principal of ZK Research. WAN issues are hard to address because of the dispersed nature of the resources, he says. "There's no perfect way of making changes to the WAN," but "SDN brings automation and orchestration from a centralized location and allows you to react faster."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: PC Connection | Acer Acer Playbook: Proven Solutions for Professional Demands Whether your workforce requires high-tech mobility, powerful desktops to streamline efficiency, reliable technology available 24 x 7, or competent tools for viewing and projecting, you'll find your solution in Acer notebooks, desktops, servers, monitors, and projectors. Learn More How to get the most out of your IT talent Tech pros talk about how to cultivate creativity and focus talent on projects that increase the value of IT. Read More   Top 21 smartwatches and activity trackers for the holidays (and beyond) One certainty this holiday season: There will be no shortage of gift options for smartwatch lovers and fans of fitness trackers. To ease the burden of selecting the right one, we rounded up the best watches and trackers, and spotlighted their strengths and weaknesses. Read More   Schematics for 12.9-inch "iPad Air Plus" emerge with rumored Q2 2014 launch Purported schematics for Apple's rumored 12.9-inch "iPad Air Plus" leak Read More   To relieve 'password fatigue,' Intel buys identity management company Intel is strengthening its effort to reduce what it calls the "pain of passwords" by acquiring PasswordBox, a Canadian company that offers an online identity manager designed to let users log on to a range of websites and services with just one click.PasswordBox lets users store login credentials in what the company calls a virtual safety deposit box. When surfing the Web, users can click on the sites they want to login to and PasswordBox handles the login.The tool, which has over 14 million downloads, will become a part of the Safe Identity organization within Intel's Security Group, the company said Monday.Intel Security is planning to use PasswordBox's one-click login system for mobile devices and browsers to reduce what it calls "password fatigue."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More     INSIDER 8 tech buzzwords that you need to know Impress your friends at this year's holiday gatherings by dropping a few of these terms. Read More
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