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	Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 Gartner says global IT spending growth will be essentially flat in 2012. IDC is more bullish, estimating 6.9% growth, driven by investments in smartphones, media tablets, mobile networks, social networking, and big data analytics. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Building the Foundation for the Virtualized Infrastructure Taneja Group highlights the fundamental phenomenon happening around server virtualization by identifying strategic actions that enterprises need to undertake to thwart the challenges that ensue from virtualization changes, and examines how HP has aligned their core storage portfolio to deliver the right foundations for the virtual infrastructure. Read Now! In this Issue IPv6 doomsday won't hit in 2012, experts say Network World's 2011 Tech News Quiz Amazon's private clouds get more advanced networking features Akamai acquires mobile, cloud traffic optimizer Cotendo Mobile campaigns to be hot in 2012 presidential race The Internet has escaped the ax, at least in the US, at least for now Can you keep your IT staff in 2012? Fabrics versus networks: Part 1 IPv6 due for wide deployment in 2012, experts say WHITE PAPER: BMC One Size Does Not Fit All: The Case for the Custom Cloud When it comes to cloud services, "semi-custom" goes a long way. "The Case for the Custom Cloud," shows you how users can configure their own customized cloud services from choices you dictate – and how you can deliver the resulting cloud services quickly and affordably. Read More! IPv6 doomsday won't hit in 2012, experts say Next year will see one more regional Internet registry run out of IPv4 addresses, but 2012 will be more of a year to prepare for the inevitable shift to IPv6 than an Internet doomsday, according to networking experts. Read More Network World's 2011 Tech News Quiz From Lulzsec to Apple patents to AT&T merger proposals, here's the year in multiple-choice questions. Read More Amazon's private clouds get more advanced networking features Amazon Web Services has introduced Elastic Network Interfaces, which are attached to instances in a private cloud to allow for more flexibility when configuring the system. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A New Look at Payment Security Akamai Edge Tokenization takes much of the cost and complexity out of eCommerce. By tokenizing critical payment data before it reaches your PCI-regulated infrastructure, Akamai relieves your organization from what experts consider the most important and challenging PCI requirement. Read more Akamai acquires mobile, cloud traffic optimizer Cotendo Akamai Technologies has acquired Cotendo is a bid to become better at speeding up enterprise cloud and mobile traffic. Read More Mobile campaigns to be hot in 2012 presidential race Social networks played an important role in the last U.S. presidential election, but the explosive growth in smartphone usage and the introduction of tablets since 2008 could make or break the candidates for president in 2012. Read More The Internet has escaped the ax, at least in the US, at least for now A year ago I wrote that 2011 would be a year in which the Internet would "be under a multi-pronged attack that threatens to change it irrevocably in ways that may destroy much of the Internet's potential." Well, 2011 has come and mostly gone, and it turned out that my pessimism may have been misplaced but not invalid. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Bloor Report: Sybase® IQ 15.3 In Detail Sybase® IQ is well positioned to compete with traditional and appliance vendors. While it has different advantages in dif¬ferent environments, it merits careful review by organisations investigating data warehousing, high-speed analytics and business intelligence options. Read now. 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 Fabrics versus networks: Part 1 Recently I was fortunate enough to be in a debate with some industry peers around the topic of data center network design. The customer requirement was for building a new set of data centers, implementing broad reaching virtualization where the workloads supported it, and of course, creating a stable and efficient operating environment. Read More IPv6 due for wide deployment in 2012, experts say This was the year that IPv6 garnered major headlines, but 2012 is expected to be the year when the next-generation Internet protocol gets widely deployed by U.S. carriers and enterprises. Read More
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