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	Real-user monitoring times three Network and systems management companies of all sorts continue beating the visibility drum as enterprise interest and investment in private cloud infrastructure and public cloud services increases. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Systems, Inc. ADCs: Next Generation Load Balancers Server load balancers offer fairly basic capabilities. This white paper details the advanced content switching, application acceleration and VMware integration capabilities that have data centers using Equalizer Application Delivery Controllers to take over where server load balancers left off. Click to continue In this Issue Watch out CISOs and CSOs: Chief Risk Officers may be gaining on you Federal agency predicts 40% savings from move to cloud VMware makes cloud jumping easy 5 signs that your techies are being poached Rolling blackouts, tsunami damage try Japanese companies Power and transport trouble Japanese IT makers after quake Amazon updates cloud management tool IBM launches e-commerce practice Infor makes unsolicited $1.84B bid for ERP vendor Lawson WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now! Watch out CISOs and CSOs: Chief Risk Officers may be gaining on you CSOs and CISOs may feel more pressure from a new breed of security professional -- the chief information risk officer -- now that the federal government has made risk management mandatory and spelled out in a new document just how risk ought to be assessed and dealt with. Read More Federal agency predicts 40% savings from move to cloud The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expects to save 40% over the next five years by switching its financial management application to a cloud computing vendor -- a sign of the massive savings to come from the U.S. federal government's shift to the software-as-a-service model. Read More VMware makes cloud jumping easy VMware's vCloud Connector (VCC) is a free VMware virtual appliance and vSphere plug-in that makes it a snap to transfer VMware virtual machines, templates and vApps between clouds. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Reduce the Impact of Explosive Data Growth This whitepaper introduces and next-generation deduplication technology from HP that allows for better management, higher performance, and more efficient data protection, while providing IT with a cost-effective way to control unrelenting data growth. Read Now 5 signs that your techies are being poached With IT hiring on the rise, CIOs need to worry about an issue that hasn't cropped up in years: how to prevent their most talented employees from being poached by rivals. Read More Rolling blackouts, tsunami damage try Japanese companies A day after Japan's biggest earthquake ever caused widespread destruction and as-yet uncounted deaths, Japan's biggest electronics companies are trying to ensure that employees in disaster areas are safe and facilities remain intact. Read More Power and transport trouble Japanese IT makers after quake Japan's major electronics companies took stock of their problems on Monday, as the country struggles to come to terms with the scale of devastation following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC A "hindsight is 20/20" look at cloud computing Learn why BMC Software's chief information officer foresees a future in which organizations realize how secure the public cloud is, underutilization of hardware is a thing of the past and daily business operations are more productive. Read More Amazon updates cloud management tool Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upgraded its Web-based Management Console with features designed to make it easier to "scale up or scale down as [computing] needs change," according to a blog post. Read More IBM launches e-commerce practice Hoping to grab some of the $70 billion yearly worldwide market of electronic commerce software and services, IBM has launched an e-commerce practice focused on retail operation integration and analytics. Read More Infor makes unsolicited $1.84B bid for ERP vendor Lawson Lawson Software received an unsolicited buy out offer of $11.25 per share, or around $1.84 billion, from rival ERP software vendor Infor. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Google Chrome 10 Google has released the stable version of Chrome 10 and users are now being automatically updated. As always, Chrome's new features focus on security, speed and simplicity, with greater JavaScript performance, sandboxing technology for Adobe Flash, password encryption and an easier-to-use settings interface. Here's a look at the new features. MOST-READ STORIES Researchers develop more powerful biofuel alternative Google still scrambling to recover from DroidDream Android attack Ex-Microsoft CTO publishes groundbreaking cookbook If you had bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago ... Harvard computer scientist Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award The eight most important commands on Cisco ASA security appliance VMware unleashes virtual desktops for Apple iPad Microsoft pushes more Kinect-like user interfaces Botnets, cloud computing power may be fueling attacks against VoIP Most Android, iPhone apps violate open source rules
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