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	Can Microsoft SharePoint deliver enterprise-level business process management? Microsoft's collaboration platform SharePoint lands in the top spot for BPM tools among IT pros surveyed by Forrester Research, prompting the research firm to examine SharePoint's viability as an enterprise BPM product. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys IT Policy Compliance for Dummies This book is a quick guide to understanding IT policy compliance. It surveys the best steps for preparing your organization's IT operations to comply with laws and regulations - and how to prove compliance to an auditor. Click here! In this Issue 10 years after Microsoft vs. DoJ SharePoint essentials Microsoft SharePoint Bible: Your Complete Guide Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 will launch May 12 SharePoint 2010: More Cloud-Friendly than Past Versions Governance Planning for SharePoint 2010: What's New? MS SharePoint: Enterprises Get Boost by Adding Social Tools Go to the head of the class: just-in-time training for SharePoint 2010 Steve Ballmer on SharePoint WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! 10 years after Microsoft vs. DoJ Ten years after losing its antitrust browser battle against the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft continues to dominate some markets, swings and misses in others, and serves as an example of what not to do for competitor Google. Read More SharePoint essentials Microsoft's SharePoint platform has generated a bunch of buzz and the upcoming SharePoint 2010 server will likely only increase corporate interest. Here we have a round-up of the most current news surrounding SharePoint and how it might impact your environment. Read More Microsoft SharePoint Bible: Your Complete Guide SharePoint 2010: The Next Generation Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Tolly Group Performance Report Tolly Report: "Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP" shows you how Citrix NetScaler beat F5 in head-to-head tests - providing 3X faster Web traffic, lower latency and higher throughput. Learn More! Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 will launch May 12 Microsoft announced today the official release date of its next versions of Office and SharePoint: May 12. Office 2010 will be available to businesses on that day, but consumers will have to wait until an unspecified date in June before they can purchase their versions. Read More SharePoint 2010: More Cloud-Friendly than Past Versions SharePoint's many moving pieces have not traditionally fit neatly into the cloud. But SharePoint 2010 addresses that problem - with three key changes. Read More Governance Planning for SharePoint 2010: What's New? Have you been wondering what new aspects of governance you need to think about for SharePoint 2010?  Well, I have, and I'm delighted to be able to post this link to a preview of the Planning for Governance chapter of Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance and Planning. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire FISMA Prescriptive Guide Learn how Tripwire helps federal agencies, as well as the organizations and contractors that store, process or transmit federal information. The FISMA Prescriptive Guide contains case studies from three fictional federal agencies, each capturing the perspective of a key stakeholder in the FISMA compliance process. Click here. MS SharePoint: Enterprises Get Boost by Adding Social Tools If anyone still thinks "Enterprise 2.0" is just a catchphrase, think again. Read More Go to the head of the class: just-in-time training for SharePoint 2010 The USOC Pressbox site gives you a chance to see SharePoint 2010 in action, but in a wonderful departure from previous releases, there is an ever growing set of documentation and training available for SharePoint 2010 - months before the official release.  I am especially fond of a "training course" that is really a series of terrific short videos offered by Microsoft called " Make the switch to the... Read More Steve Ballmer on SharePoint Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sits down with Network World Senior Editor John Fontana to discuss SharePoint, online services and some of his highs and lows after 10 years being the Microsoft CEO. Read More
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