A guiding hand for maturing IT processes

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	A guiding hand for maturing IT processes  The drive to reduce costs, improve service delivery and enhance business competitiveness has become ingrained in the IT psyche. And this, in turn, means change within enterprise IT infrastructure and operations environments. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware The Virtualization Imperative This report presents the findings of a study that Forrester Consulting conducted for VMware in November 2009 to evaluate firms' client operating system migration plans. Read Now. In this Issue SharePoint sites, growing like weeds, need governance Apache declares war on Oracle over Java Dell's Kace management tools going mobile Revitalizing IT's worth Oracle expands systems management suite Hack our products and we'll pay you: Barracuda Networks When sites share data about zero-day attacks, false positives plummet Beware of tests that use simulated data to validate product performance, researchers warn More federal health database details coming following privacy alarm Gartner: Companies need shift in private cloud security WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Reduce Your Backup Burden Data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. Read now SharePoint sites, growing like weeds, need governance "Like the Wild West" -- that's how Dave Rettig, a senior manager in the strategy and technology alignment group at Raymond James Financial Inc., describes the firm's first implementation of SharePoint 2003. "It was a free-for-all. Everyone just sort of jumped in," Rettig says. Read More Apache declares war on Oracle over Java The Apache Foundation has found itself in the middle of a battle with Oracle over Java. Read More Dell's Kace management tools going mobile Dell is updating its Kace systems management products to help IT departments deal with the army of smartphones and tablets invading their company networks, Michael Dell said on Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Vyatta Open Networking Solutions Guide Complete overview of the opportunities that open networking presents today's network administrator facing evolving infrastructures and shrinking budgets. Read now! Revitalizing IT's worth Why does IT exist? If you consider IT value only in terms of technical precision, you're overlooking half your value. Such focus often relegates IT to a mere cost center rather than a critical participant in the organization.   Read More Oracle expands systems management suite Oracle's new Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center can watch servers, operating systems and virtual containers. Read More Hack our products and we'll pay you: Barracuda Networks Barracuda Networks announced it will pay more than $3,100 to anyone who can hack into its security products, saying the bug bounty program is the first ever from a pure-play security vendor. Read More WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Virtualization: Maximize Efficiency and Performance In virtualized server environments, the selection of the storage environment (such as direct attached storage versus storage area network) and choice of the storage system, itself, are critical. The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family provides unsurpassed reliability, performance and ease of use for VMware environments. Learn more. Read Now When sites share data about zero-day attacks, false positives plummet Anomaly detectors looking for zero-day and polymorphic attacks have a much better batting average when results from more than one site are analyzed together rather than individually, researchers told an IEEE homeland security conference this week. Read More Beware of tests that use simulated data to validate product performance, researchers warn Testing information-assurance products against simulated data may not be worth much depending on how closely the simulation approximates real data, researchers told attendees at an IEEE conference on homeland security. Read More More federal health database details coming following privacy alarm In response to considerable privacy concerns, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is expected to soon release more details on its plans for a controversial new database containing information on the healthcare claims of millions of Americans. Read More Gartner: Companies need shift in private cloud security The security systems of businesses must "evolve" as they move from virtualized data centers towards private cloud infrastructures, according to analysts at Gartner. Read More
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