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	Office 365 admins get spreadsheet search help Microsoft has switched on special search features in Office 365 designed to help IT administrators keep tabs on employees' spreadsheets, a task becoming more difficult and more important in enterprises. Read More WHITE PAPER: MobileIron Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites The mobile device management market has evolved into the enterprise mobility management suites market. EMM is growing quickly, and the vendor landscape has changed significantly, which will impact IT leaders' choices. This analyst report highlights the top ten EMM suites in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. View now In this Issue Microsoft 'almost' wraps up largest layoff sweep in its history Windows 7 sales end this Friday Stealthy malware uses Gmail drafts as command and control to steal data BitYota cloud data warehouse gets a boost from Microsoft Azure Microsoft plans a standalone Office 2016 for end of 2015 Office 365 is getting management features for iOS, Android and Windows Phone Microsoft announcements: From TechEd Europe innovations to baking Skype into IE Security vendor coalition cleans 43,000 malware infections used for cyberespionage Microsoft leans on data-center strength to get cloud edge Microsoft fires new shot in storage wars, gives Office 365 users unlimited OneDrive WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Enterprise Mobile Management This report details Forrester's findings about how well each vendor fulfills their criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help infrastructure and operations professionals select the right partner for their enterprise mobile management. Learn More Microsoft 'almost' wraps up largest layoff sweep in its history Microsoft has handed out pink slips in a third round of job cuts that "almost" concludes its plan to eliminate 18,000 positions. Read More Windows 7 sales end this Friday This Friday is Halloween, but if you try to buy a PC with Windows 7 pre-loaded after that, you're going to get a rock instead of a treat. Read More Stealthy malware uses Gmail drafts as command and control to steal data Back in August, Germany's anti-malware solutions provider G Data Software identified stealthy malware that had gone undetected since 2012. They dubbed the remote administration tool (RAT) as Win32.Trojan.IcoScript.A and remarked that it was particularly nasty due to the way it abused webmail for its command and control (C&C) communications. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Software Optimize Data Center Resources and Plan for the Future Eliminate over-provisioning and capacity shortfalls with pro-active capacity optimization. Join us in the evolution from capacity monitoring to capacity optimization in your data center. In this webinar, discover how to significantly extend the value of your performance monitoring system. Learn More BitYota cloud data warehouse gets a boost from Microsoft Azure Hoping to enlarge its pool of corporate customers to include the enterprise market, startup BitYota will soon offer its data warehouse service on the Microsoft Azure cloud, thanks to a partnership between the two companies. Read More Microsoft plans a standalone Office 2016 for end of 2015 At one point, the announcement of an anticipated ship date of the next release of Microsoft Office would be big news. As it is, Microsoft's release of Office 2016 may not be the milestone some might expect. Read More Office 365 is getting management features for iOS, Android and Windows Phone Organizations using Office 365 will soon be able to manage iOS, Android and Windows Phone smartphone and tablets without paying anything extra.T Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Next-gen unified storage, optimized for virtualized apps Organizations of every type rely on the timely retrieval of information to facilitate transactions and decision making. While a typical organization is experiencing double-digit data growth, IT budgets, staffing, and traditional storage capabilities are not keeping pace. View Now Microsoft announcements: From TechEd Europe innovations to baking Skype into IE Microsoft was named the tenth most profitable company in the world, but based on the 'wave of innovation' announcements pouring out of TechEd Europe, if Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has his way, then Microsoft may move up that list by next year. Read More Security vendor coalition cleans 43,000 malware infections used for cyberespionage A coalition of security vendors has disrupted the activities of a sophisticated group of attackers tied to China that, over the past six years, infiltrated the computers of many Fortune 500 companies, journalists, environmental groups, software companies, academic institutions, pro-democracy groups and government agencies around the world. Read More Microsoft leans on data-center strength to get cloud edge Microsoft wants to move monitoring and analytics to the cloud, automate management and take over high- performance computing work with its latest Azure products. Read More Microsoft fires new shot in storage wars, gives Office 365 users unlimited OneDrive Microsoft today abolished space restrictions on its cloud-based OneDrive storage service for subscribers to Office 365, saying per-user allotments are now unlimited. Read More
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