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	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 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 In this Issue How 'smart antennas' could boost Wi-Fi performance 7 Essential CIO Leadership Skills That Get Results President Obama on Mythbusters! What's next? U.S. working with China on intellectual property rights Can Twitter Predict the Stock Market? These Guys Say Yes What Apple WON'T Announce At 'Back to the Mac' Event Users list what's wrong with software vendors Verizon Tiered Data: Should You Switch Smartphone Plans? Answers to your questions about Office 365 IBM uses 'virtual doorman' to lock down cloud computing Naysayers, get over yourselves. The cloud is secure. Steve Jobs talks trash about Google's Android, knocks tiny tablets WHITE PAPER: NetApp Are you Asking the Right Questions on Storage Decisions? You can't make the best storage decisions for your business if you're not asking the right questions. This new RFP template makes it easy. It reflects today's IT reality and includes the key criteria to consider so you can position your organization for the future. Learn more! How 'smart antennas' could boost Wi-Fi performance We've all had the problem of going into a crowded Starbucks and suffering through a substandard Wi-Fi signal, most likely caused by too few access points and too many end users. But what if Wi-Fi antennas could do a better job of detecting how many devices were in a given room and could push data out to them more rapidly on a one-by-one basis? Read More 7 Essential CIO Leadership Skills That Get Results In the new book The CIO Edge: Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results, the trio of authors argue that CIOs' leadership and people skills are the biggest determinate of their success -- or failure. Read More President Obama on Mythbusters! What's next? In an effort to boost interest in math and science, President Obama will make an appearance on the hit Discovery Channel series Mythbusters. Read More U.S. working with China on intellectual property rights U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is visiting Beijing this week to discuss how China -- a hotbed for counterfeit goods and piracy -- can better coordinate its efforts with the U.S. to stop intellectual property rights violations. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage for Windows Environments This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server data along with your Windows files using NetApp storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments. Read More! Can Twitter Predict the Stock Market? These Guys Say Yes Twitter is people! At least some Cornell University folks seem to think it's a window into people's minds. A recent paper published over at arXiv.org writes a compelling case for Twitter's ability to be used to predict certain things -- specifically stock market behavior. Read More What Apple WON'T Announce At 'Back to the Mac' Event Apple's special media event being held tomorrow is aptly titled "Back to the Mac"- to remind us that "Hey, we still make computers too!" Read More Users list what's wrong with software vendors Users are bringing a new tool to their ongoing effort to get to get vendors to improve delivery of software maintenance, a "code of conduct for IT maintenance." Read More Verizon Tiered Data: Should You Switch Smartphone Plans? Verizon Wireless customers, be warned: The days of unlimited smartphone data are coming to an end. But only if you want them to. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Out with the old, in with the 'new normal' The old standards in IT, marked by costly, inflexible infrastructures, just don't work in today's hyper-demanding and dynamic business world. It's time for a 'new normal' marked by lower costs, user self-service, streamlined processes, better security and increased flexibility. Underlying it all is a fresh approach to virtualization. Learn More Answers to your questions about Office 365 Microsoft made a big splash today with the launch of Office 365, it's cloud offering combining Office applications with programs such as Exchange, SharePoint and Lync. But we felt the 30-minute Web cast left a number of questions unanswered that we'd like to try to tackle. Read More IBM uses 'virtual doorman' to lock down cloud computing IBM has developed a new rootkit-detection system designed to make it easier to detect malicious attacks on virtualized data centers. Read More Naysayers, get over yourselves. The cloud is secure. If you listen to the arguments about security in the cloud they sound compelling, and generally fall into two categories: technical risks, and policy issues. Read More Steve Jobs talks trash about Google's Android, knocks tiny tablets Apple CEO Steve Jobs took shots at Google and rebutted claims by some analysts and developers that Android is a better bet for smartphones and tablet computers. Read More
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