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	First Look: BlackBerry Passport So BB 10 didn't work out so well, did it? Which helps explain why, with the new Passport smartphone, BlackBerry is ditching the years-late emphasis on competing for consumers and refocusing on the enterprise users on which the company was built. The Passport is uniquely focused on being a device for work first and personal stuff second - take a look at how it's turned out.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Ixia Overcoming Visibility Deficits in Virtualized Environments With up to 80% of data center traffic traveling between virtualized servers, end-to-end visibility is a major concern. This paper provides an overview of virtualized data center blind spots and offers a solution to overcome them. View now In this Issue 7 Free Online Collaboration and Project Management Tools FIRST LOOK: Ray Ozzie's Talko cloud calling/messaging iPhone app The wild world of workplace wearables The Apple Watch is real and here's what it does Apple Pay got mobile payments right, but its reach is limited 10 (mostly) free Exchange admin tools How to choose the right Linux distro WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs This paper discusses five levers you can use to lower your mainframe MLC costs by up to 20 percent or more. Explore best practices and real-world examples of dramatic savings through a mainframe MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. Learn More 7 Free Online Collaboration and Project Management Tools Free Collaboration and Project Management SoftwareImage by ThinkstockCasey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager once said, "Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part." The same holds true for today's technology workforce.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   FIRST LOOK: Ray Ozzie's Talko cloud calling/messaging iPhone app I never did use Ray Ozzie's Lotus Notes or Groove (acquired by Microsoft) collaboration tools, mainly because the companies I worked for didn't use them, though I have interviewed the famed software designer and watched his colorful career unfold over the years. So when Ozzie's latest venture, Talko, released its free calling/messaging app for iPhones today, I decided I would give it a whirl and rope my colleague, Michael Cooney, into testing it with me. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems   Gartner Magic Quadrant for ADCs Citrix is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers for the seventh consecutive year: the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report focuses on vendor's ability to solve complex application deployment challenges. Don't miss this chance to learn from Gartner's independent research. Learn More The wild world of workplace wearables The wild world of workplace wearables Between Google Glass and the Apple iWatch, interest in wearables has never been higher. Deloitte Consulting predicts that 10 million devices will be sold this year alone, representing a $3 billion market largely that's currently driven by consumers. However, Bill Briggs, CTO at Deloitte Consulting, says that over the long term, the market for wearables in the enterprise could surpass the consumer market. Here are some examples of wearables coming to a variety of vertical industries. (Read the story version.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   The Apple Watch is real and here's what it does Apple has made its long-awaited entry into the wearables market with a digital watch that can double as a fitness tracker and run a variety of apps.Called the Apple Watch, it has an oblong glass screen with a curved, touch display and comes in three models—a standard version with a body made from black or silver stainless steel, a sports version in silver or gray aluminium and a luxury version in hardened, 18-carat gold.The watch can be personalized to display any of numerous styles of watch face, in traditional analog as well as digital styles. It also runs a wide range of apps, relying heavily on the winder on the side of the watch, known as the crown, to control the interface.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology 3 Key Ways WAN Optimization Saves If you wanted to break down innovation into a tidy equation, it might go something like this: Technology + Connectivity = Productivity. Productivity comes in two forms: user experience and infrastructure efficiency. Read Now Apple Pay got mobile payments right, but its reach is limited Apple executed admirably in aligning mobile payment partners, but its relatively low market share limit it to a smaller share of the wallets. Read More   10 (mostly) free Exchange admin tools Troubleshooting does not have to be expensive, nor does daily administration of your mail servers and messaging environment. There are, in fact, a wealth of resources available for Exchange administrators to monitor health, administer users, migrate mailboxes to the cloud and even take care of old data that is stored insecurely and uncatalogued. But it's often difficult to know where to look for these software assists.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   How to choose the right Linux distro   RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and OpenSuse have far more similarities than differences, but choosing the wrong one for the job can make life much harder Read More
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