IT management on the go, iPhone style

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	IT management on the go, iPhone style Amid all the fun and games -- OK, legit business productivity tools too -- IT-professionals-cum-iPhone-users can now find a management app from popular freeware company Spiceworks. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Pinpoint root cause of network issues up to 90% faster. Automated Root Cause Analysis speeds remediation. FREE video and 30-day trial. Download free 30-day trial In this Issue Pay no attention to that widget recording your every move Proposed cloud-log standard sparks controversy 20 awesome tech products at DEMO Smartphones, devices spark IT security "mobile melee" Citrix invests in personal cloud management company Security information and event management tools require 'fine tuning,' user says Is VoIP too secure? How one municipality is securing, managing Google Apps, Docs Microsoft pooh-poohs Google Cloud Connect Video editors for tech-savvy business users India's MindTree offers remote IT management tools WHITE PAPER: HP Connect in Real Time with Video Collaboration For video collaboration to work seamlessly, you need an integrator for all of the systems and services required for a robust Unified Communications and Collaboration environment. Learn how HP Services with Polycom can help to deploy world-class, standards-based video collaboration that extends from the desktop to the boardroom. Read Now Pay no attention to that widget recording your every move Ever wonder how much of a time suck Bejeweled is? Or how often your legitimate work-related research on the Web deteriorates into recreational browsing? Now there's software that will tell not only you, but also your boss and your coworkers. Read More Proposed cloud-log standard sparks controversy Cloud computing pushes current log management capabilities to their limit. Experts say it's time for a new standard to simplify the problem. Read More 20 awesome tech products at DEMO Build-your-own iPhone and Android apps, cloud services, photo tools and more on display at DEMO Spring 2011. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks XNV Brings Virtual Lifecycle Management to the Network Extreme Networks ® delivers a network-based, dynamic data center virtualization lifecycle management solution that delivers unprecedented visibility, control and automation of Virtual Machines (VM) to the network administrator. Read now! Smartphones, devices spark IT security "mobile melee" While devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android are in most cases welcomed into the corporate world, there's uncertainty about how to fit them into enterprise IT security practices that have been concerned so long by Microsoft Windows. Read More Citrix invests in personal cloud management company Citrix Systems has invested in Primadesk, a company that is developing a free, Web-based application to help users keep track of content stored in different cloud-based services, the company said on Monday. Read More Security information and event management tools require 'fine tuning,' user says Security information and event management (SIEM) equipment is valuable for getting a bird's-eye view of security in the enterprise, but there are deployment challenges that IT security managers need to recognize. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Maximize SAN Infrastructure Performance Although SAN has advantages in performance, reliability, availability and provisioning, it is affected by fragmentation and performance will decline unless it is addressed. Find out why this is true and how to best avoid SAN slowdowns. Read more Is VoIP too secure? It's hard to imagine, but roughly 10 years ago as VoIP was being rolled out, corporate networkers were quite concerned about the security of VoIP. As we faced a move from voice going over a traditional (and, by the way, unencrypted) network, there was concern that VoIP would be much too easy to eavesdrop on -- especially if it traversed the Internet. Read More How one municipality is securing, managing Google Apps, Docs It may have been the ease of use and lower costs that drove the city government of Panama City, Fla., to use Google Apps and Docs, but state regulations and IT governance procedures made them look for a way to secure and manage the environment. Read More Microsoft pooh-poohs Google Cloud Connect Yesterday, Google released a tool that lets Microsoft Office users automatically sync and share documents on their PCs via Google Docs. Today, Microsoft fired back in a blog post that accuses Google Cloud Connect of being difficult to install, a potential cause of data loss, a drain on application performance and a security/privacy risk. Read More Video editors for tech-savvy business users Most video editing suites are aimed at either the consumer or the video pro. But what about business users, who fall squarely in the middle of these two categories? Read More India's MindTree offers remote IT management tools MindTree, a mid-size Indian outsourcer, has developed its own remote IT infrastructure management service delivery platform, MWatch, in a bid to differentiate its remote management services from those of its larger competitors. Read More
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