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	Midsized companies behind large enterprises in aligning IT to the business If you're overseeing performance management initiatives at a midsized organization -- one with annual revenue between $50 million and $500 million -- then you probably have a thing or two to learn from your counterparts at larger enterprises. 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 In this Issue 2011's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries IT hiring shows gains, but jobs may be shifting IBM snares 5,896 patents, Apple debuts among top 50 patent winners Microsoft-led group formed to buy Novell patents dissolves From the abacus to the iPod: Computer museum opens $19M exhibition Be like Larry and Sergey: Google invites teens to online science fair Producteev, task management in a connected world Paper: Piracy sites draw huge traffic Mobility management in 2011 and beyond Spectrum analyzer catches exam cheats in Taiwan 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! 2011's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries Our fifth annual collection of the year's "geekiest anniversaries" kicks off with The Mentor's "Hacker's Manifesto" and includes such memorable characters as Captain Midnight and Ferris Bueller. Read More IT hiring shows gains, but jobs may be shifting For tech workers, hiring and wages improved at year end, mirroring last month's overall gain in employment. Read More IBM snares 5,896 patents, Apple debuts among top 50 patent winners IBM earned more U.S. patents in 2010 than any other company, topping the list of patent winners for the 18th year in a row. Apple broke into the top 50 for the first time with 563 patents. Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Mobile Powerplay: Secure, High Performance, Unified The mobile revolution is here—and here to stay. iPhone, iPad, Droid--employees bring their mobile devices into the workplace, and they want access to personal and professional information. This brings a new set of concerns for IT and the business: IT needs to ensure that the corporate network and the access remains secure. Register Now Microsoft-led group formed to buy Novell patents dissolves In a move that will be seen by many as a big win for open-source advocates, a plan to create a consortium led by Microsoft to buy Novell patents has been withdrawn. Read More From the abacus to the iPod: Computer museum opens $19M exhibition The Computer History Museum this week opens a $19 million, 25,000-square-foot building expansion and exhibition titled: "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing." Read More Be like Larry and Sergey: Google invites teens to online science fair Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is urging youths ages 13 to 18 to take part in a worldwide science fair that will be hosted by the search giant online. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Service Assurance Defined This Forrester paper explains the concept of service assurance and highlights how it can address fundamental issues around managing application performance and business services. Learn More Producteev, task management in a connected world As we become increasingly mobile and rely on one or more computing devices other than our desktops and laptops to manage our communications, data, and schedules, we run into the problems of data portability and synchronization across these various platforms. Read More Paper: Piracy sites draw huge traffic Digital piracy sites get billions of visits a year, according to a new paper. Read More Mobility management in 2011 and beyond Let's hope that 2011 is a year when mainstream enterprises start getting serious about mobility management and security. Read More Spectrum analyzer catches exam cheats in Taiwan Police in Taiwan used a set of spectrum analyzers to catch at least three people suspected of cheating on an exam by monitoring them for mobile phone signals. Read More
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