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	BMC BladeLogic automation software a private cloud cornerstone Like a growing number of enterprise IT executives, Craig Baughn, vice president of hosting operations at Concur Technologies, is carefully studying how to transition from a virtual environment to a private cloud. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IBM Keep Your Applications Up & Running IBM Tivoli® Foundations Application Manager provides entry-level monitoring for the growing medium-sized organization looking for an easy-to-use cost-effective solution. It provides capabilities to implement application management, including IT asset discovery, network monitoring, server monitoring, and monitoring for key IT elements. Click to continue In this Issue Mainframe sect tackles new roles, old stereotypes You love your management tool, but does it love you? Getting VDI right Smartphone wave challenges enterprise security Here comes the iBike? Apple files patent for a bicycle IBM to accelerate mobile unified communications Google, Verizon net neutrality plan limits FCC IBM buys document capture vendor Datacap File-sharing Web site claims to 'buy' desolate Russian town WEBCAST: 3Com 3 Steps to Transform Your Data Center Join Robert Whiteley, V.P. and Research Director at Forrester Research, for this Webcast on transforming your data center. Robert will discuss the critical networking trends that will affect the way you build your data center and provide a 3 step transformation formula. View Now. Mainframe sect tackles new roles, old stereotypes IBM's new mainframe is on display at this week's SHARE conference in Boston, a testament to the relevancy of the big iron in today's enterprise IT environments. Amid the excitement over IBM's mainframe makeover, however, IT pros are concerned about the availability of skilled professionals who know how to run it. Read More You love your management tool, but does it love you? If you love Wireshark, hunting down performance problems at the packet level gives you an endorphin buzz. You crave hard problems and the raw data to solve them in your head. But you can't always parachute in with a Sniffer when a problem pops up. For that you need a tool that loves you back by incorporating some of your gray matter. Read More Getting VDI right Desktop virtualization makes it possible to centralize control and simplify management, improve security and compliance, and minimize help desk calls. It isn't perfect for all types of users within the enterprise, but when deployed appropriately, VDI can unlock new capabilities that could never be achieved through traditional physical desktop solutions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks Forrester: Addressing the Risks of Web 2.0 New research conducted by Forrester provides insights about how IT decision makers from large enterprises view and address the risks of new collaboration and web 2.0 applications. Read now! Smartphone wave challenges enterprise security With ever more employees clamoring to use smartphones for both personal and business purposes, IT and security managers are forced to answer tough questions. Read More Here comes the iBike? Apple files patent for a bicycle Yes, you read that headline right. Apple has applied for a patent for a bicycle concept. Read More IBM to accelerate mobile unified communications Keeping Microsoft and Cisco in its sights, IBM is planning to introduce variety of collaboration tools for mobile platforms where it wants to create full-featured unified communications endpoints and become the mobile collaboration vendor of choice. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Getting Started with Identity Compliance The Burton Group's, Kevin Kampman, provides an overview of the latest technology for identity management. He'll help you sift through key, mandatory requirements and features and functionality that can wait. Kevin offers guidance on how you can get a 360-degree view of users' access and behavior, best practices and a real-world implementation. View Now. Google, Verizon net neutrality plan limits FCC Critics of a network neutrality proposal released Monday by Verizon Communications and Google have complained that it would exempt wireless broadband and managed services from enforcement, but the biggest departure from recent practices may be its proposed major limits on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's authority. Read More IBM buys document capture vendor Datacap IBM made the latest in its long run of acquisitions on Tuesday, announcing the purchase of document capture software vendor Datacap. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More File-sharing Web site claims to 'buy' desolate Russian town You can call it a sort of Robin Hood situation. One of the most popular file-sharing sites is in apparent negotiations to name a rural Russian town in Siberia after its website, with money generated from its advertising. Read More
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