How management technologies will fulfill cloud and virtualization promises

	Virtual, mobile, social endeavors drive IT in 2011 | Will there be a jobless recovery for IT in 2011?
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	How management technologies will fulfill cloud and virtualization promises Being that we're at the start of a new year and all, I thought I'd launch the 2011 newsletter by sharing predictions from a variety of network and systems management vendor executives. Read More WHITE PAPER: ParAccel A Technical Overview of MPP Analytic Databases Tackle the most complex analytic challenges and glean insight from vast amounts of data. Learn how a columnar-based, massively parallel processing analytic database can provide high performance analytics against complex SQL workloads the most challenging analytic queries. Read now! In this Issue Virtual, mobile, social endeavors drive IT in 2011 Will there be a jobless recovery for IT in 2011? The complicated new face of personal computing 2011 tech priorities: Are you ready to shake things up? 2011 Outlook: Better than 2010 and really wild 2011 tech priorities: How to take your enterprise Wi-Fi network to the next level Gauging the volume Deferred IT maintenance is a ticking time bomb Looking ahead to 2011: Cloud, regulation, VoIP and more DOWNLOAD: LogMeIn Remotely manage hundreds of computers From a single, web-based console, LogMeIn Central lets you remotely deploy, implement and automate tasks on all the computers in your system. Update software, run scripts, install patches – all with just a few clicks. Try Central free now! Virtual, mobile, social endeavors drive IT in 2011 Caution still pervades the economic forecasts, but it's not deterring IT executives from aggressively expanding their virtualization efforts, extending mobility initiatives, and tackling newer priorities such as cloud computing and enterprise social media adoption. Read More Will there be a jobless recovery for IT in 2011? Will there be a jobless recovery for IT in 2011? That's the most important career-related issue facing IT executives today, as they make staffing decisions for next year while also worrying about their own job prospects amid a steady stream of corporate downsizing and offshoring announcements. Read More The complicated new face of personal computing New platforms such as tablets and smartphones, loads of new virtualization technologies, and the need to access the desktop from any device, anywhere, forever change personal computing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Be the Change: Discover the 3D Scaling Advantage Imagine a platform that can scale up to provide improved performance and throughput as its host servers consolidate, scale out to deliver capacity, performance and bandwidth from a shared pool of resources as more and more host servers are connected to it, and scale deep by connecting external storage. Read Now 2011 tech priorities: Are you ready to shake things up? Concerns about the economy haven't evaporated, but companies aren't standing still waiting for a bailout. They're working to find new opportunities for growth. We've identified six key areas where IT can help reshape the business and equip employees to do their jobs more efficiently and effectively. Read More 2011 Outlook: Better than 2010 and really wild With more optimism combined with scary security %^$#, 2011 could be a wild ride Read More 2011 tech priorities: How to take your enterprise Wi-Fi network to the next level With 802.11n, enterprise Wi-Fi networks are shifting from convenient to critical. They're becoming the preferred and primary network access for users – which means IT groups have to rethink how they deploy, secure, manage and run the wireless LAN. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Network Managers' 10 Most-Challenging I&O Trends Gartner has identified 10 key infrastructure and operations trends that will significantly affect network design and planning during the next three years. In this paper recommendations are made to deal with each of them. Read now! Gauging the volume The hockey stick growth projections for data storage and network traffic don't look like they will level off anytime soon. So plan to stock up on disks (or get smarter about data management) and get ready to install fatter network pipes (or get more serious about WAN optimization). Read More Deferred IT maintenance is a ticking time bomb $500 billion -- it's a number so big you'd assume it's a component of the national debt. It isn't. Instead, it's what Gartner analyst Andy Kyte calls the IT debt. "When budgets are tight, maintenance gets cut. After a decade of tight budgets, the scale of the maintenance backlog has created systemic risk, particularly for large organizations," he says. Read More Looking ahead to 2011: Cloud, regulation, VoIP and more Picking up where we left off as we closed last year with part one of our 2011 predictions, today we'll continue our discussion, outlining what we expect to happen this year with hosted/cloud services, net neutrality, VoIP evolution, and consolidation trends. Read More
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