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	Netuitive aims for the clouds The more automated and dynamic an IT infrastructure, the better -- right? That's why the highly agile and scalable self-service cloud computing model holds so much promise for the enterprise, after all. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AccelOps Virtualization & Cloud Blindspots? Having VM triage and optimization issues? Exploring private/hybrid clouds? How can you assure service quality and performance reliability? AccelOps integrated monitoring delivers end-to-end visibility, proactive control, reduced MTTR and service intelligence. See Yankee Group's webcast/paper "Managing the Shift to Enterprise Private/Hybrid Clouds" Click to continue In this Issue 8 trends driving IT job growth, salaries HP upgrades IT management tools The world's most unusual outsourcing destination NBA Finals showcasing technology as well as basketball skills Cloud storage will fail without WAN acceleration, so FedEx to the rescue? Identity management top security priority in Gartner survey Gaming chips score in data centers Oracle revamps content management suite Box.net keeps the cloud in sync with your desktop Linux Trojan raises malware concerns Is Cisco Microsoft's friend or foe? WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Strategies for Unleashing Cloud Performance Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Click here! 8 trends driving IT job growth, salaries Will job prospects for U.S. IT professionals fare better or worse for the rest of 2010? It's hard to tell from the latest economic and employment data being released by IT career experts. Read More HP upgrades IT management tools Updated versions of HP Service Manager and HP Configuration Management System aim to help enterprise IT departments handle incidents more quickly and operate more efficiently. Read More The world's most unusual outsourcing destination Think of North Korea, and repression, starvation and military provocation are probably the first things that come to mind. But beyond the geopolitical posturing, North Korea has also been quietly building up its IT industry. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center NBA Finals showcasing technology as well as basketball skills The moment I arrived at last night's Game 4 of the Finals at Boston Garden I was immediately impressed that the NBA - from its BlackBerry-filled trailer -- was able to spit out my media badge based on my having attended the 2008 finals in which the Boston Celtics and LA Lakers also played. Tech trade show registration groups could learn a thing or two from that. Read More Cloud storage will fail without WAN acceleration, so FedEx to the rescue? The winner of cloud storage won't be Amazon or other big companies, but the smaller or regional company who will work with customers, allow them to use WAN Acceleration. Read More Identity management top security priority in Gartner survey "The No.1 priority is now identity and access management," says Gartner research director Vic Wheatman, noting the analysis is based on a close look at what IT security professionals at 308 companies are telling Gartner about their overall information spending and specific IT security projects. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Gaming chips score in data centers When Axel Kohlmeyer, the associate director of the Institute for Computational Molecular Science at Temple University, needed a large cluster of computers on which to run his models of physical molecular interactions, he could not always get time on the supercomputers managed by the major academic centers. Read More Oracle revamps content management suite Oracle is unveiling Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, a pillar of its sprawling middleware stack and competitor to products from IBM, EMC, Open Text and other vendors. Read More Box.net keeps the cloud in sync with your desktop Box.net, a privately-held company based in Palo Alto, is launching new functionality today with Box Sync. Box Sync provides businesses with the tools to automatically sync files from the local desktop to the cloud and vice versa to simplify content management and improve productivity. Read More Linux Trojan raises malware concerns I've got good news and bad news for those of the misguided perception that Linux is somehow impervious to attack or compromise. The bad news is that it turns out a vast collection of Linux systems may, in fact, be pwned. The good news, at least for IT administrators and organizations that rely on Linux as a server or desktop operating system, is that the Trojan is in a game download so it should have no bearing on Linux in a business setting. Read More Is Cisco Microsoft's friend or foe? Cisco Systems announced the coming new Cisco Quad enterprise collaboration platform and after viewing a demo of it a few days ago, I found the similarities between it and Microsoft's Unified Communications platform to be readily apparent, begging the question of whether Quad is intended to integrate with UC or compete with it. Read More
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