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	Want to telework? Not so fast, IT IT pro spend their days figuring out how to support a mobile workforce that can operate wholly off-site, yet the telework perk remains elusive for them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Endace Ltd. Pssst! Your NOC Is Flying Blind How long did it take you to get a permanent fix for your last network problem? If your answer is "Too long!" or "We never did get one!" your organization is leaking real money in network and business downtime. But you can stem the flow. View Now In this Issue IT headcount expected to rise in Q4, CIOs say Get started with Hadoop: Free training resources from Cloudera, MapR and more Aruba eases WiFi access point set-up Cisco acquires Wi-Fi-based location company Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's pay jumps 24% to $96 million How to encrypt your cloud storage for free Wi-Fi architectures are changing, and new products are improving accordingly Gartner: Windows 8 is a must-win gamble by Microsoft Android tethering apps: 6 excellent options Netfix to ditch data center, embrace cloud Apprenda wants you to build your apps for the cloud ... for free WHITE PAPER: F5 Capitalize on the Cloud with a Sound Network Strategy New research underscores cloud computing's challenging effects on corporate networks, but solutions are available. Learn More! IT headcount expected to rise in Q4, CIOs say Nine percent of CIOs plan to expand their IT departments in Q4, and 6% anticipate cutbacks. The net 3% increase in anticipated IT hiring is up two percentage points from Q3, according to Robert Half Technology. Read More Get started with Hadoop: Free training resources from Cloudera, MapR and more Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you're not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are also free resources that can get a newcomer started on Hadoop or broaden a veteran's skills. Read More Aruba eases WiFi access point set-up Wireless LAN vendor Aruba Networks announced this week its expanded "controller-less" Wi-Fi network, along with an Internet-based service that automatically sets up enterprise access points. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. Cisco acquires Wi-Fi-based location company Cisco this week said it acquired ThinkSmart Technologies of Cork, Ireland, a software company that delivers location data analysis based on Wi-Fi networks. Read More Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's pay jumps 24% to $96 million One of Oracle's top executives made more money than Larry Ellison last year, but for fiscal 2012, the CEO is back on top of the pay rankings with a package valued at a whopping $96 million. Read More How to encrypt your cloud storage for free If you want something done right, you need to do it yourself. That may sound like a trite cliche, but the maxim rings true when it comes to securing files that you've stored online: A handful of recent incidents--including breaches of Dropbox and iCloud--underscores the fact that even with built-in encryption and SSL transfers, cloud storage providers can't perfectly ensure the sanctity of your data. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Optimize and Secure Cloud, SaaS, BYOD, and Social Media Today's threat landscape has migrated to the web causing many security professionals to prevent direct Internet access at the branch. But with new cloud-based security solutions from Blue Coat you can re-architect your network to embrace the Internet – safely – and optimize application performance. Learn more. Wi-Fi architectures are changing, and new products are improving accordingly The current, dominant architecture for enterprise Wi-Fi networks is to have a bunch of "thin" access points (APs) deployed for coverage with a number of controllers used as the "brains" of the deployment. The APs provide the connectivity to the devices and the controller acts as a central point of control for configuration, security and policy. Read More Gartner: Windows 8 is a must-win gamble by Microsoft Gartner is elevating Windows 8 to a must-win gamble by Microsoft if it wants to matter in the evolving world of personal devices, according to a Gartner special report. Read More Android tethering apps: 6 excellent options Want to use your Android phone to get your tablet or PC online? Here are five apps that'll let you share your data connection in no time. Read More Netfix to ditch data center, embrace cloud Netflix no longer wants to run a data center to support its in-house IT services. So it's shifting internal applications to Amazon's cloud and turning to software-as-a-service providers for other business systems. Read More Apprenda wants you to build your apps for the cloud ... for free Continuing on a theme of cloud vendors offering free or low-cost versions of their offerings, private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company Apprenda this week launched a freemium "express" version of its application development service. Read More
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