Gartner: Top 10 future strategic IT predictions

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	Gartner: Top 10 future strategic IT predictions Gartner opened its Symposium/ITxpo extravaganza with a bit of good news: Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.6% increase from 2013. But with that growth there are big changes afoot and as Gartner will, it took a look at what some of the biggest changes - including the impact of 3D printing, automation and security threats -- will mean for anyone involved in IT. Read... Read More   WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware   Creating and Driving Organizational Agility IT is all about driving business agility. But you have to be agile to drive agility. And you calls for dynamic, flexible technology, like virtual desktop infrastructure. Explore how leveraging best practices and trusted partners through pre-configured solutions View Now In this Issue iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Oct. 6 Mystery solved: This 'thing' is a … BlackBerry offers itself up to six would-be buyers; Cisco looks like the best fit Report: FBI can't access Silk Road owner's $80 million in Bitcoins 5 Wi-Fi security myths you must abandon now Stanford builds computer with carbon nanotubes 802.11ac 'gigabit Wi-Fi' starts to show potential, limits Your best 'Gigabit Wi-Fi' resources 25 tips and tools to make Google Drive better WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks   A Proven Solution for Today's BYOD Demands   Wireless access is mission-critical for most organizations. BYOD has accelerated the need or wireless capacity, and WLANs must deliver a robust wired-like experience in today's dense environments. High-scale, third-party testing has validated Juniper's ability to support the densest BYOD environments while delivering reliable wireless access. Learn more. iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Oct. 6 The eco-friendly iOSsphere has already begun recycling lapsed iPhone 5S rumors for the iPhone 6. There's a comforting familiarity to it all. Read More   Mystery solved: This 'thing' is a … Someone who apparently works in IT at a school or university posted this photo to Reddit this morning and asked: "What is this abomination?" Wrote the Redditor: "We found it in a faculty office after they left. It's a blue device with an ethernet port... Connected to an ethernet->serial adapter... Connected to a serial->USB adapter. What the hell is this thing?" Read More   BlackBerry offers itself up to six would-be buyers; Cisco looks like the best fit BlackBerry has reportedly asked Cisco, Google, SAP, Intel, LG and Samsung separately to consider buying all or parts of its embattled company. Read More   Report: FBI can't access Silk Road owner's $80 million in Bitcoins After the FBI executed an arrest warrant last week on Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind the massive online drug marketplace Silk Road, it seized about 26,000 Bitcoins, worth roughly $3.2 million, that were stored in the site's user accounts. Read More   5 Wi-Fi security myths you must abandon now Wi-Fi has evolved over the years, and so have the techniques for securing your wireless network. An Internet search could unearth information that's outdated and no longer secure or relevant, or that's simply a myth. Read More   Stanford builds computer with carbon nanotubes Researchers at Stanford have demonstrated the first functional computer built using only carbon nanotube transistors, according to an article in the scientific journal Nature. Read More   802.11ac 'gigabit Wi-Fi' starts to show potential, limits Vendor tests and very early 802.11ac customers provide a reality check on "gigabit Wi-Fi" but also confirm much of its promise. Read More   Your best 'Gigabit Wi-Fi' resources "Gigabit" Wi-Fi has reached a point where it's now being deployed by some early adopters. There are more 802.11ac resources – test data, anecdotal observations, hands-on experience – and more products than ever before. Read More   25 tips and tools to make Google Drive better Get the most out of Google Drive with these 25 tips, tools, and tweaks for power users Read More
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