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	Controlling your March Madness traffic outbreak As the NCAA men's college basketball tournament begins to unfold, March Madness takes on a more literal meaning for those tasked with controlling activity on the enterprise network. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ Streamlining IT Operations with Business Service Management This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the benefits of a business service management practice and tools in response to IT environments becoming more dynamic and complex due to the increased use of virtualization, cloud, SOA, and n-tier application architectures. Learn More In this Issue CIOs struggle to find IT talent Can big data nab network invaders? Saatchi & Saatchi's Bangkok office is off the hook New Cisco servers have Intel Xeon E5 inside The new iPad expected to tax corporate nets As Cisco mulls SDNs, HP set offer SDN SLAs Extreme Networks takes on BYOD challenge Brocade takes on Cisco, HP, Juniper in network ease 'Big data' creating big career opportunities for IT pros At least 1 woman should be interviewed for every IT job opening, advocacy group says Study: Cloud will create 14 million jobs by 2014 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Companies like Foursquare, StrongMail, and ExoIS are taking charge of cloud server security using Halo from CloudPassage, which ensures easy, scalable, and automated security for dynamic cloud environments. Register today to Secure 25 Cloud Servers for Free with Halo Basic. CIOs struggle to find IT talent New survey data finds it's tougher to recruit skilled professionals in the tech field than it is in other professional areas, including accounting and finance, legal, and advertising and marketing departments. Read More Can big data nab network invaders? The buzz in security circles about "big data" goes something like this: If the enterprise could only unite its security-related event data with a warehouse of business information, it could analyze this Big Data to catch intruders trying to steal sensitive information. Read More Saatchi & Saatchi's Bangkok office is off the hook The new Bangkok office for global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi is anything but static. The reception desk is on wheels, along with the conference room tables. Read More WHITE PAPER: Success Factors Beyond Simple Total Cost of Ownership When considering new applications, the question has always been "Build or Buy?" But increasingly today, it's "Buy or Rent?" In this paper, we analyze the implications and costs of purchasing and implementing cloud-based software (SaaS) vs. traditional on-premise software. Get your copy now, compliments of SuccessFactors. Learn More Now! New Cisco servers have Intel Xeon E5 inside Cisco this week expanded its data center portfolio with servers and networking gear to better support virtualization, cloud computing and Big Data. Read More The new iPad expected to tax corporate nets Apple's introduction of the new iPad is expected to increase traffic on corporate campus networks, force IT to rethink access and security policies, and step up investments in mobility. Read More As Cisco mulls SDNs, HP set offer SDN SLAs While Cisco's formulating its SDN and OpenFlow strategy, HP has been steadily working with an SDN company in US Dept. of Defense and enterprise applications. Adara Networks and HP have been collaborating on military communications for the past couple of years, specifically on software controlled TCP acceleration and flow-by-flow network management. Read More WHITE PAPER: FireEye FireEye Advanced Threat Report – 2H2011 This report is unique in that it is not an analysis of well-known malware or billions of spam messages. Instead, we provide insight into the threats that are successful and therefore dangerous -- those which got through traditional defenses and into enterprise networks in 2H 2011. Read now. Extreme Networks takes on BYOD challenge Extreme Networks this week is rolling out Ethernet switches and a network management application designed to address the BYOD phenomenon at enterprise campuses. Read More Brocade takes on Cisco, HP, Juniper in network ease Brocade this week is looking to simplify the campus edge with two additions to its ICX switch line and plans to more easily mix and match ICX switches in and between stacks. Read More 'Big data' creating big career opportunities for IT pros New job opportunities are emerging for IT professionals in the field of "big data," the term used to describe how corporations gather vast amounts of real-time data about their customers and analyze that data to drive decision making and increase profitability. Read More At least 1 woman should be interviewed for every IT job opening, advocacy group says A not-for-profit group advocating there be more women working in information technology has just published a report that says recruiters for high-tech jobs should make sure there is at least one woman candidate for every job opening in IT. Read More Study: Cloud will create 14 million jobs by 2014 Implementation of cloud services will create 14 million jobs internationally by 2014, with the greatest increases occurring in emerging markets, which are not constrained in deploying cloud systems by legacy infrastructure, according to a new study from Microsoft and IDC. 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