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	A future look at IT management In a recent interview, Jimmy Harris, managing director of cloud computing at Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, shared his thoughts on how the job of IT management will change over time as enterprises take a more services-centric view of their worlds. Read More ARTICLE: Bluecat Networks Managed DNS You Can Count On! Proteus Cloud Services – The first Managed DNS service to fully integrate with IP Address Management (IPAM). The most reliable, cost effective cloud based DNS offering without the nasty overage fees! Click to continue In this Issue Back to school bargains IT pros will love Products of the week slideshow IT helps Heathrow improve baggage transfers NAC decisions you need to make now Ford renews infrastructure management deal Cisco settles antitrust suit over software updates HP's butterfly design to shake up data centres Symantec notes continued cautiousness among IT buyers Enterprises extend more business apps to employee smartphones WHITE PAPER: HP Is your WAN designed with your applications in mind? WAN sourcing has been based on the cost of bandwith and availability. The focus is increasing on sourcing WAN solutions that can meet business needs for application performance. Read about Gartner's structured methodology to design a WAN that both performs well and is cost effective. Read Now Back to school bargains IT pros will love Read More Products of the week slideshow Our round-up of intriguing new products from Axway, Packet Sentry, CA, among others. Read More IT helps Heathrow improve baggage transfers The amount of baggage that does not arrive at Heathrow airport at the same time as its owners has continued to fall, thanks to improved systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Efficiently Delivering Enterprise-Class File-Based Storage IDC: Read about the exponential growth in file-based storage. Learn how having intelligence on data stored can help storage managers make smarter decisions about data storage, protection, archiving, retention, and disposition. Read Now. NAC decisions you need to make now One important piece of a multilevel security defense for companies of almost any size is network access control (NAC), which lets you enforce policies for end-user machines. Read More Ford renews infrastructure management deal Car maker Ford has renewed an IT services deal with supplier CSC. Read More Cisco settles antitrust suit over software updates Cisco Systems has settled a 2008 lawsuit in which independent network maintenance company Multiven charged that Cisco forced customers to buy its SMARTnet service plan in order to get bug fixes and software updates. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ROI of Switched Ethernet Networking Solutions IDC interviewed several organizations to determine their future networking strategies. Learn how they built a foundation to meet network switch demands with an average 5.7 month payback and zero annual maintenance fees. Read Now HP's butterfly design to shake up data centres HP has launched a new butterfly-shaped data centre design to shake up data centres Read More Symantec notes continued cautiousness among IT buyers Global provider of security, storage and systems management solutions Symantec saw longer procurement cycles due to continued cautiousness among IT buyers. Read More Enterprises extend more business apps to employee smartphones Roughly 75% of senior IT executives plan to make internal applications available to employees on a variety of smartphones and mobile devices, according to new research from McAfee's Trust Digital unit. Read More
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