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	Cablevision tunes into a self-service portal When Embotics, a virtual machine life-cycle management mainstay, updated its V-Commander tool this summer with a self-service portal that allows customizable views for different IT team members, Cablevision Systems was all over the upgrade. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Report: A Smart New Approach to Storage Purchases Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment. Read now! In this Issue 25 new IT companies to watch Burning question: How can security risks be mitigated in virtualized systems? Burning question: How can VM sprawl be prevented? Network World's top 12 green IT products HP opens attack on Cisco certifications Financial services firms failing on risk management Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon How many balls can you juggle? WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain The Concise Guide to eDiscovery This paper will provide an introduction to the key areas involved in developing an e-discovery strategy and to help organizations become better prepared for the rigors of the e-discovery process. Read Now. 25 new IT companies to watch The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of cloud computing and virtualization, a flood of young technology companies is hitting the market. Read More Burning question: How can security risks be mitigated in virtualized systems? "Virtualization is not inherently insecure. However, most virtualized workloads are being deployed insecurely." That's what Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald wrote earlier this year in a report. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Keys to Successful Data Center Resource Management A lack of centralized, meaningful operating data has created a dilemma for data center management: optimize for efficiency or availability, but not both. Learn how real-time visibility into rack-, row- and facility-level operating conditions can help you to determine the real capacity limits of your data center. Read Now. Burning question: How can VM sprawl be prevented? VM sprawl, or virtual machine sprawl, is just what it sounds like: too many VMs sprawled across a virtual infrastructure, taking up processing power and storage space even if they are rarely used. Read More Network World's top 12 green IT products A dozen nitty gritty tools and technologies that cut energy costs, boost data center efficiency and promote green IT practices. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center HP opens attack on Cisco certifications HP this week unveiled a training and certification program for IT personnel converging enterprise infrastructure and rearchitecting data centers. Read More Financial services firms failing on risk management Financial services firms should focus on getting "workable" risk datasets in place to avoid the wrath of regulators, says risk analyst firm JWG. Read More Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon Being a CIO -- or working for one -- no longer means just keeping a data center and network running. Now the CIO and the IT division must become "entrepreneurial" to drum up new customers for the business and learn how to deploy cutting-edge technologies such as "context-based computing" -- or risk becoming irrelevant. Read More How many balls can you juggle? For those of you who have never had the pleasure of releasing an open source software product I thought I would let you in on a secret -- IT IS VERY PAINFUL. In fact, it is the only time that I dream of how great it is to work on a proprietary software product with product managers running detailed schedules and engineering managers working directly with those schedules to meet objectives and dates. Read More
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