Jealous much? 8 techy things that can spark office envy

Kennametal CEO Uses IT to Keep a Laser Focus on Customers New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer? Network World Daily News PM September 02, 2013 Share this email Jealous much? 8 techy things that can spark office envy From telecommuting to extra monitors, technology has given us new reasons to be jealous of our co-workers READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Kennametal CEO Uses IT to Keep a Laser Focus on Customers 2. New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer? 3. The PC monitor is dead. Meet the new smart monitor 4. INSIDER How Progressive Uses Telematics and Analytics to Price Car Insurance 5. XP Z: Microsoft scares Windows XP users straight with undead bug warning 6. In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times 7. For IP surveillance networks, smart PoE switches give an edge 8. Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line 9. Google cuts Nexus 4 price by up to a third in some key markets 10. 10 Free Google Chrome Extensions to Increase Your Productivity WHITE PAPER: CDW Can You Benefit from Social CRM? Social tools and strategies are now crucial to building a successful CRM strategy. Learn how to take advantage of social CRM to improve business processes and enhance customer loyalty without a complete "rip-and-replace" of traditional CRM tools. Read Now Kennametal CEO Uses IT to Keep a Laser Focus on Customers For Carlos Cardoso, CEO of Kennametal, a wealth of data about customers' manufacturing plants allows his company to identify ways to boost efficiency READ MORE New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer? CIO's Publisher Adam Dennison wonders why all the burdens of IT process-creating and policy-making for new technologies must fall on the CIO's shoulders. Should vendors be stepping up to help? READ MORE The PC monitor is dead. Meet the new smart monitor We worry far too much about the desktop PC becoming a relic of a bygone age. Our focus, instead, should be on the monitor that the PC connects to. Indeed, as we use more and more mobile devices with integrated screens--notebooks, tablets, and smartphones--we pay much less attention to the aging, dumb monitors sitting on our desks. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: OutSystems Why IT Struggles to Innovate and How You Can Fix It It seems virtually impossible for IT to meet all business demands with current budgets, resources, and approaches. In this eBook we explore the root causes of IT inefficiency and discuss methods companies have used to overcome them, turning their IT departments into innovation superstars. Learn More INSIDER How Progressive Uses Telematics and Analytics to Price Car Insurance Progressive's Snapshot device monitors customer driving habits, lets insurer fine-tune policy pricing. READ MORE XP Z: Microsoft scares Windows XP users straight with undead bug warning Microsoft warned Windows XP customers that they face never-patched, never-dead "zero-day" vulnerabilities if they don't dump the 12-year-old operating system before its April 2014 retirement. READ MORE In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: CDW BI Checklist for IT Pros Learn the key selection criteria required to provide your organization with the capability to address structured data, unstructured data and mobile demands so that employees can view and manipulate data on their own, from virtually any location. Read Now For IP surveillance networks, smart PoE switches give an edge An increasing number of businesses, school districts and healthcare facilities are delving into Smart Ethernet switches with Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology—and reaping big benefits for their IP Surveillance networks. READ MORE Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line Juniper has killed a high-profile product for the core of mobile operator networks after combining business units to focus on potential growth opportunities. READ MORE Google cuts Nexus 4 price by up to a third in some key markets Google has cut the price of the Nexus 4 in handful of countries including the U.K. and the U.S., where the smartphone now costs from $199. The aggressive drop signals Google wanting to preempt the arrival of a cheaper iPhone. READ MORE 10 Free Google Chrome Extensions to Increase Your Productivity These Google Chrome browser extensions will help you manage tabs, avoid Flash, save files to Google Drive and more. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies Guide to 50% Faster VMs - No Hardware Required For administrators seeking to increase performance in their virtual environment without investing in more hardware, this white paper outlines how I/O optimization technologies deliver performance at a fraction of the cost of hardware for applications with the heaviest workloads. Read more. Read Now! SLIDESHOWS Hot products from VMworld 2013 Click through to see all the latest from the show in San Francisco. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line 2. IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers 3. Old electronics don't die, they pile up 4. School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety' 5. Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access user data 6. Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others 7. Cisco in for a virtual fight 8. Apple's iPhone trade-in program is a game changer 9. Hot products from VMworld 2013 10. Linus Torvalds celebrates 22 years of Linux with nostalgic message Follow Network World Share this email You are currently subscribed to networkworld_daily_news_alert as networking.world@gmail.com. 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Cisco responds to VMware's NSX launch, allegiances

	Time to Bridge the Gap between Identity and Security | Kudos to New Zealand for killing software patents
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	Cisco responds to VMware's NSX launch, allegiances Cisco has responded to the groundswell of momentum and support around the introduction of VMware's NSX network virtualization platform this week with a laundry list of the limitations of software-only based network virtualization. Read More WEBCAST: Juniper Networks Converged Access for a More Agile Enterprise A new convergence trend is making its way through the enterprise: converged user access across wired and wireless networks. Driving this trend is the need to accommodate a dizzying array of devices and data, communicating wirelessly from a variety of locations across and outside of the enterprise. View now >> In this Issue Time to Bridge the Gap between Identity and Security Kudos to New Zealand for killing software patents Apple's iPhone trade in program is a game changer Thinking of building a mobile app? Outgoing DHS chief Napolitano to successor: "You will need a large bottle of Advil" School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety' Earth to Nokia: No one wants a Surface RT tablet Cisco in for a virtual fight WHITE PAPER: Webroot Software Managing Web Security in a Challenging Threat Landscape This whitepaper deals with the rise of mobility, BYOD and social networking, and how these trends have led cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities in browsers and mobile apps. From drive-by downloads to spearfishing to XML injection, web-borne threats represent a significant new risk for businesses. Learn More Time to Bridge the Gap between Identity and Security Lots of security vendors play in the identity space. IBM is a leader in both areas while McAfee, RSA Security, and Symantec have acquired identity technologies over the past few years. These vendors present a compelling vision of tighter alignment between identity and security that is sometimes referred to as "contextual security." By unifying identity, network security, device identity, and... Read More Kudos to New Zealand for killing software patents Read More WHITE PAPER: Xirrus Optimize Your Wi-Fi Network Driven by the rapid evolution of mobile devices, the move to cloud-based applications and data, and the continued development of new wireless technologies, Wi-Fi has become the network of choice for connectivity. Most new devices no longer have wired connectivity. IT managers now count Wi-Fi as an essential business facility. Learn more. Apple's iPhone trade in program is a game changer As reported in Techcrunch two days ago, Apple has already started piloting their new trade in program for iPhones ahead of the release of the new iPhone 5s model. While this may not seem like a big deal to you right now, I think with hindsight this will be another case of Apple inventing a new lucrative market th Read More Thinking of building a mobile app? If you're thinking of building a mobile app you don't have to go "native". Going with native tools can produce robust, complex apps but the downside is that porting from iOS to Android to Windows to Linux to ... quickly becomes a nightmare. Read More WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks A Proven Solution for Today's BYOD Demands Wireless access is mission-critical for most organizations. BYOD has accelerated the need or wireless capacity, and WLANs must deliver a robust wired-like experience in today's dense environments. High-scale, third-party testing has validated Juniper's ability to support the densest BYOD environments while delivering reliable wireless access. Learn more. Outgoing DHS chief Napolitano to successor: "You will need a large bottle of Advil" The outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told a gathering at the at the National Press Club this week that the United States will among other security challenges - "face a major cyber event that will have a serious effect on our lives, our economy, and the everyday functioning of our society." Nice words her potential replacement, who hasn't been named yet, will love to hear no... Read More School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety' A California school district, citing it's for the children's "safety" excuses, hired a company to monitor students' social media posts even when the kids are not on campus. Glendale Unified School District includes "31 schools and over 2,620 employees, serving 27,000 students in grades Kindergarten through 12th grade." The district is paying $40,500 for Geo Listening to analyze the social media posts... Read More Earth to Nokia: No one wants a Surface RT tablet Read More Cisco in for a virtual fight VMware is lining up a Who's Who of networking vendors to take on partner/rival Cisco in network virtualization and SDNs. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Hot products from VMworld 2013 Click through to see all the latest from the show in San Francisco. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line 2. IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers 3. Old electronics don't die, they pile up 4. School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety' 5. Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access user data 6. Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others 7. Cisco in for a virtual fight 8. Apple's iPhone trade-in program is a game changer 9. Hot products from VMworld 2013 10. Linus Torvalds celebrates 22 years of Linux with nostalgic message
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iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 28

	10 Sorriest Technology Companies of 2013 | Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line
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	iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 28 Still more photographs purporting to show exteriors of the Apple iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 were posted this week. But they only underlined how little the iOSphere actually knows about the Next iPads. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Ensuring Business Continuity of SAN Storage The Taneja Group examines what business continuity means in storage systems. Built from the ground up with business continuity in mind, Taneja reviews the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 array and highlights how its capabilities deliver a high level of business continuity. Learn More In this Issue 10 Sorriest Technology Companies of 2013 Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line INSIDER Unisys going on offense in server and security markets Apple's iPhone: The untold story Vodafone confirms talks on selling its Verizon Wireless stake Mobile Management Spurs Power Shift in the Enterprise Forget Shark Week: Researchers tag n' track great whites If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smart watches, are you successful? Twitter tweaks its site and mobile apps to make conversations easier Mobile device management shifts to the cloud 7 classic Steve Ballmer videos WEBCAST: Juniper Networks Live Event: Deploying a Virtual Network in Your Data Center Many believe that data center network virtualization can effectively operate over any physical network infrastructure. Wrong! Join a live webinar discussion on September 26th at 11am PDT // 2 pm EDT with IDG, VMware and Juniper Networks where you'll learn to demystify this assumption. View Now 10 Sorriest Technology Companies of 2013 Microsoft, Apple and Samsung among those issuing mea culpas Read More Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line Juniper has killed a high-profile product for the core of mobile operator networks after combining business units to focus on potential growth opportunities. Read More INSIDER Unisys going on offense in server and security markets CEO Ed Coleman says a new software-focused data center strategy and powerful new security technology will enable Unisys to take up the attack in vital market segments and shake up customer views about the usually quiet company. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications SDN: The next wave of networking innovation Brocade and IDG bring you this exclusive eBook exploring the impact of today's IT and Data Center challenges on your network. With a focus on software-defined networks, use this eBook to start your evolution toward a flatter, less complex and more agile network architecture—an architecture ready for the future. View Brocade's eBook on SDN Apple's iPhone: The untold story From the NW archives: Apple is one of the most secretive companies on the planet, so the Apple-Samsung trial was fascinating in that it lifted the veil of secrecy that typically shrouds Apple's operations. From marketing budgets to photos of never-before-seen iPhone prototypes, the evidence introduced at trial gave the world an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of Apple. Read More Vodafone confirms talks on selling its Verizon Wireless stake Vodafone Group is in talks to sell back its 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless to its partner in that company, Verizon Communications. Read More Mobile Management Spurs Power Shift in the Enterprise Who owns mobility in the enterprise? It's not the CIO. The business side is seizing power for mobile application development and management, and software vendors are quickly adjusting to service this nontechnical target market. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware Capitalizing on Desktop Virtualization As more than half of those surveyed by IDG move to virtual desktop infrastructure, mastering its complexities has never been more important. With the right best practices and trusted partners, you can do just that--thus accelerating time to value, simplifying deployment and management, and creating organizational agility. View Now Forget Shark Week: Researchers tag n' track great whites A team of scientists off the coast of Cape Cod has been catching, then tagging great white sharks with wireless transmitters to learn more about their behavior -- and where they go. Read More If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smart watches, are you successful? Sales of so-called "smart watches" will surge from 1 million to 36 million in five years, according to a speculative new report from Juniper Research. But whether that defines "success" remains an open question. Read More Twitter tweaks its site and mobile apps to make conversations easier Twitter is updating its site and mobile apps to make it easier for users to carry out conversations on the site and share them with others outside of Twitter. Read More Mobile device management shifts to the cloud New cloud-based software lets employees register, secure, and manage their personal devices without IT department involvement. And a simplified Web interface automates a lot of management tasks. Read More 7 classic Steve Ballmer videos Retiring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is one heck of a character Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Hot products from VMworld 2013 Click through to see all the latest from the show in San Francisco. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line 2. IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers 3. Old electronics don't die, they pile up 4. School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety' 5. Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access user data 6. Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others 7. Cisco in for a virtual fight 8. Apple's iPhone trade-in program is a game changer 9. Hot products from VMworld 2013 10. Linus Torvalds celebrates 22 years of Linux with nostalgic message
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Covertix gives your most sensitive files a “body guard” for life

	You can't make it run better if you don't know where the problem lies | Toyota Goes All-in With Social Media Monitoring
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	Covertix gives your most sensitive files a "body guard" for life Cyber thieves are getting more sophisticated in their approaches to targeting specific intellectual property. Like surgeons, they can extract a certain valuable file and leave little trace that they've ever been in your network. This makes it increasingly important to protect your most sensitive files. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Can You Benefit from Social CRM? Social tools and strategies are now crucial to building a successful CRM strategy. Learn how to take advantage of social CRM to improve business processes and enhance customer loyalty without a complete "rip-and-replace" of traditional CRM tools. Read Now In this Issue You can't make it run better if you don't know where the problem lies Toyota Goes All-in With Social Media Monitoring NIST subjects draft cybersecurity framework to more public scrutiny Why CRM Implementation Needs Training Wheels, Not Racing Gear 7 of the best tools for building killer mobile apps New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer? HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists The Loneliness of Today's Mobile Culture WHITE PAPER: Verizon Top Benefits of M2M Data Analytics A recent Computerworld survey reveals that the combination of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and the cloud will meet growing storage requirements, improve customer service and ensure better governance. Learn More You can't make it run better if you don't know where the problem lies Riverbed Technology is best known for its WAN optimization tools, but the company has branched out over the years through multiple acquisitions. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Eric Wolford, president of the company's Products Group, to see how the company is trying to help customers squeeze more efficiency out of their IT resources. Read More Toyota Goes All-in With Social Media Monitoring Toyota's CIO says the carmaker analyzes social media commentary to learn what customers think of specific vehicles, identify quality problems and increase the accuracy of sales predictionsa(c). Read More WEBCAST: F5 Networks F5 Simply Makes Citrix VDI Better Learn how F5 and Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop solutions work together to simplify access and improve the user experience while maintaining user connections, irrespective of device or location and remove challenges the deplay adoption of VDI. F5 makes Citrix better. Watch the video to understand how View Now NIST subjects draft cybersecurity framework to more public scrutiny Following through on an order earlier this year from U.S. President Barack Obama, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is rapidly developing a set of guidelines and best practices to help organizations better secure their IT systems. Read More Why CRM Implementation Needs Training Wheels, Not Racing Gear If it's true that the best CRM systems are built, not bought, then which features should you be building? And how should you build them? As with riding a bike, implementing a CRM system gets much harder once you take off the training wheels--or, in this case, the out-of-the-box features. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell and Microsoft What's New in Windows Server 2012 Find out how your business can cut costs, provide additional services and keep users happy with Windows Server 2012. Read Now! 7 of the best tools for building killer mobile apps Read More New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer? CIO's Publisher Adam Dennison wonders why all the burdens of IT process-creating and policy-making for new technologies must fall on the CIO's shoulders. Should vendors be stepping up to help? Read More HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists As leading HR departments turn to 'talent analytics' for a wide range of staffing issues, CIOs are at the center of this data-driven transformation Read More The Loneliness of Today's Mobile Culture If you've ever felt isolated among your smartphone-obsessed friends and family, you're not alone. In fact, a new video from My Science Academy captures that feeling of isolation. CIO.com Senior Writer Tom Kaneshige weighs in on whether mobile devices connect us or sentence us to solitary confinement. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Hot products from VMworld 2013 Click through to see all the latest from the show in San Francisco. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line 2. IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers 3. Old electronics don't die, they pile up 4. School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety' 5. Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access user data 6. Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others 7. Cisco in for a virtual fight 8. Apple's iPhone trade-in program is a game changer 9. Hot products from VMworld 2013 10. Linus Torvalds celebrates 22 years of Linux with nostalgic message
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