Tech pros' favorite tools increase IT efficiency

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	Tech pros' favorite tools increase IT efficiency Each year we ask IT pros what they love. This year, several tools that improve the usability and management of enterprise IT systems ranked among the favorites. Rich Russo singled out Paessler's PRTG Network Monitor. 'It's the all seeing eye-in-the-sky over our entire network,' says Russo, who is senior engineer of infrastructure at insurance and risk management advisor Crystal & Company. Read More   In this Issue Microsoft Azure offers scalability as a service for high-volume apps 8 cloud companies to watch following MONSTER funding week Go-to storage and disaster recovery products Fave Raves: 34 tech pros share favorite IT products VMware just created its first Linux OS, and it's container-friendly Gurucul identifies cloud threats based on identity, behaviors Amazon and Microsoft take aim at new workloads with souped up cloud offerings INSIDER Big Data and cloud projects can go horribly wrong. Don't let this happen to you. IT pros in retail are sold on these 6 products WHITE PAPER: ServiceNow The Future of IT: From Chaos to Service Automation Learn how innovative CIOs are automating IT services and shifting focus from cost to agility and growth across the enterprise. Read Now Microsoft Azure offers scalability as a service for high-volume apps Microsoft plans to introduce a new cloud platform service that may eliminate the need to worry about scaling up an application as it grows in popularity. Read More   8 cloud companies to watch following MONSTER funding week Investors last week poured at least $350 million into cloud computing companies focused on everything from security to Hadoop clusters to industry-specific apps. Read More   Go-to storage and disaster recovery products LEAF Commercial Capital used to wrestle with tape backups for disaster recovery. Now the equipment leasing and finance company is using a software-based service from Evolve IP. Rusty Lorenzon, director of IT Infrastructure, says Evolve IP's disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) has allowed the company to reduce its recovery-time objectives from 48 hours or more to four hours or less. Read More   WEBCAST: Rimini Street Navigating Operating Costs and Roadmap Uncertainties for SAP New innovation and updates in core ERP lag as SAP focuses all its attention on a long-term, high-risk "re-platform" strategy with its newly announced S/4HANA suite. Join us on May 14th at 1:00 p.m. EST for a live discussion and expert insight. Learn More Fave Raves: 34 tech pros share favorite IT products It takes many tools to keep IT systems running smoothly, and tech pros have their personal favorites. Check out this year's must-haves. Read More   VMware just created its first Linux OS, and it's container-friendly VMware Monday announced its first operating system, and it's designed to run containers inside the company's virtualization management software. Read More   Gurucul identifies cloud threats based on identity, behaviors Gurucul is extending its identity-based threat detection to cloud-based applications with a new platform that monitors who has access to what and what they are doing with it. Read More   WEBCAST: Coresite Achieving True Scalability in the Cloud Join CoreSite and industry strategist Andrew Schroepfer in this on-demand webinar to learn how your organization can effectively map applications to the right IT infrastructure. Learn More Amazon and Microsoft take aim at new workloads with souped up cloud offerings Hoping to move new applications to the cloud, Amazon has launched a new virtual server with four high-end GPUs, while Microsoft has made its SSD-based storage offering generally available. Read More     INSIDER Big Data and cloud projects can go horribly wrong. Don't let this happen to you. IT projects are not bulletproof. They are as likely to fail or encounter obstacles before coming to completion than they are to go smoothly. But when it comes to cloud and Big Data projects, the failure rate is disturbingly high. (Insider Story) Read More   IT pros in retail are sold on these 6 products When we asked IT pros to name their favorite products, six respondents from the retail industry weighed in on their go-to tools. (Insider content) Read More
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