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Can you keep your IT staff in 2012?
IT staff retention is shaping up to be one of the biggest challenges facing CIOs in 2012. Read More


WHITE PAPER: McAfee

Combating the Insider Risk to Data - McAfee Solution Brief
Protecting your organization against internal data threats is not just about protecting the sensitive information you know could put your company at risk if exposed. It's also about discovering those hidden data sources that you don't even know exist and have not secured. Learn More

WHITE PAPER: NetIQ

First Industy-Wide BSM Maturity Benchmark Study
This first-of-its-kind benchmark study reporting the IT and Business maturity illustrating the business service management imperative today. The survey offers insight into the current and future state of the Business Service Management imperative across global organizations. Learn More

Best of Google 2011: Gags, Easter Eggs, Pranks, and Games
Google spent a goodly amount of time this year playing tricks on readers and amusing them with gags, Easter eggs, fake videos and Web pages, and, of course, the famous interactive Doodles. Read More

The wacky USB gadgets of 2011
These silly gadgets could serve as stocking stuffers for your favorite geek -- or for yourself. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Sybase

Scaling Out Query Performance with Sybase IQ 15.3
This paper is meant to provide a holistic perspective and introduce the technical concepts behind DQP in general and Sybase® IQ 15.3's DQP implementation through the PlexQ Distributed Query Platform. Read now.

Plano, Texas schools see benefits from district-wide Wi-Fi
At the Plano Independent School District in Texas, 82 schools and office campuses are equipped with Wi-Fi offering private channels for teachers and staff and a public channel for students. Read More

LinkedIn open sources search engine
Joining its fellow social-networking companies in the public release of internal code, LinkedIn has opened sourced software obtained in October with its acquisition of the IndexTank search-engine software provider. Read More


WHITE PAPER: BMC

Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement
This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Learn More!

Siri and Santa Claus take center stage in new Apple iPhone ad
Apple this past weekend rolled out a new holiday-themed iPhone 4S ad highlighting, what else, Siri and Santa Claus. Keeping in line with previous Siri ads, the commercial tends not to focus on a user's face but rather on the feature itself being used. Read More

YEAR END 2011: Microsoft
Software giant Microsoft struggled to stay competitive for much of 2011, with big releases set for 2012. Read More

Cloud Development Documentation Insanity
Developing for the cloud -- particularly in customer-facing systems -- really is different. Time to change one "rule" of development. Read More



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10 Things We Love and Hate about Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10
Ubuntu 11.10 has some jagged edges and documentation isn't easy to locate, but Canonical is certainly dreaming big with this latest update, dubbed Oneiric (dreamy) Ocelot.

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