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	Virtual Security Remain Anathema to Many Organizations VMworld hype masks the fact that many enterprises remain wedded to security appliances and are only "toe-dipping" with virtual security appliances Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More In this Issue INSIDER How to survive the data explosion INSIDER Tech Industry Job Boom Fuels IT Recruiter Shortage Ten tech products that died on arrival The behemoths of the World Tank Biathlon The copper telephone line over time WHITE PAPER: IBM Improving the Management and Governance of Unstructured Data Maximize efficiency with deeper insight to data value and automated, policy-based compliance, retention & disposition. Read Now INSIDER How to survive the data explosion IDC estimates that enterprise data doubles every 18 months. That's an astounding statistic, but somewhat difficult to wrap your head around. A simple analogy may help.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More WHITE PAPER: ServiceNow Transform IT: Transform the Enterprise This paper provides IT leaders with insight into three IT imperatives that 24 CIOs and senior IT executives used to reposition IT and transform the enterprise. Read Now INSIDER Tech Industry Job Boom Fuels IT Recruiter Shortage While companies scramble to fill vacant and newly created tech roles, a shortage of recruiters is adding to the crunch -- making it a good time to become an IT recruiter. Read More WEBCAST: VEEAM Software Best Practices in Virtualized Protection for 2014 Jason Buffington, ESG Sr. Analyst, discusses ESG's research findings on protecting highly virtualized environments, looking at such topics as: - Server hypervisor adoption/preferences, - General data protection trends, - and specific approaches for protecting and recovering both VMware and Hyper-V environments. Learn more! Ten tech products that died on arrival "Image by WikipediaITworld's own Andy Patrizio has declared Windows 8 dead on arrival, a product so out-of-touch with its intended audience that that it was doomed from the start. The tech industry is surprisingly littered with such sad stories of failure, many from extremely successful companies. These products take years to develop, and sometimes the train is hard to divert, even when it becomes clear it's heading in the wrong direction. Many of these dead-on-arrival flops had high corporate hopes behind them; others were already giving off the stench of death, and were briefly released only to be mercifully put down in short order.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More The behemoths of the World Tank Biathlon "Image by REUTERS/Maxim ZmeyevWhen you think of a biathlon you usually envision chiseled athletes not big lumbering tanks. But at last week’s World Tank Biathlon, bigger and bulkier was better. The tank biathlon requires each steel behemoth to cover around 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in the shortest time possible while shooting at various targets and making it through a variety of obstacles. Armenia, Kazakhstan, China, Serbia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, India, Mongolia and Kuwait all competed in the challenge which Russia ultimately won.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More The copper telephone line over time My daughter, Emma, soon to be 13, is in the office with me today and I had some fun sharing with her a couple of facts from this Alcatel-Lucent infographic about the history of the copper telephone line. Read More
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