How to get the most out of your IT talent

	How UPS uses analytics to drive down costs (and no, it doesn't call it big data) | SDN tools increase WAN efficiency
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	How to get the most out of your IT talent As the spotlight on cost reduction has dimmed, IT has picked up plenty of new directives: to deliver business agility, drive innovation, and increase its value to the business, to name a few. Yet at the same time, IT remains responsible for all the tactical and operational activities it has always performed, such as keeping systems running, delivering new capabilities, and securing intellectual property and corporate data. For CIOs and IT leaders, the management challenge is how to help IT employees break the tactical habit and use their strategic skills more effectively. Read More   WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   Bridge the Gap between Network Ops and the Service Desk Businesses can't afford to let siloed approaches to incident management delay resolution and undermine IT productivity. BMC Intelligent Service Resolution bridges the gap between the service desk and network operations, and provides a unified, business-centric view across technologies, to help you resolve the right issues more quickly than ever. Learn More In this Issue How UPS uses analytics to drive down costs (and no, it doesn't call it big data) SDN tools increase WAN efficiency Public cloud storage can be efficient, but the potential is still limited The Linux holiday shopping guide Computer vision, robots bolster Amazon warehouses for holiday rush INSIDER Gamification pitfalls and how companies are avoiding them New products of the week 12.01.2014 How to get more out of your virtualized and cloud environments Schematics for 12.9-inch "iPad Air Plus" emerge with rumored Q2 2014 launch WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Enterprise Mobility Management Checklist Read this checklist for tips and considerations when creating your own Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) strategy. Learn More. How UPS uses analytics to drive down costs (and no, it doesn't call it big data) When you have an organization the size of UPS – with 99,000 vehicles and 424,000 employees – every single little bit of efficiency that can be squeezed out of daily operations translates into a big deal. UPS has been using analytics to do just that for a long time now, and keeps getting better and better at it. Read More   SDN tools increase WAN efficiency Configuring, maintaining and changing WAN infrastructure can be a nightmare given the distributed nature of the beast and all the remote touch points, but emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools promise to make these operations more efficient. Read More   Public cloud storage can be efficient, but the potential is still limited Public cloud storage can be a cost efficient alternative to rolling your own, but observers warn that it isn't a cure all. Read More   WEBCAST: Code 42 Enabling Collaboration while Maintaining Data Security Much to the dismay of IT­—well-meaning knowledge workers are using consumer-grade file sync and share tools, violating security policies and putting mission-critical, corporate data at risk. Learn More The Linux holiday shopping guide Traditionally, finding gifts for the Open Source-loving, Linux-running person in your life has not been terribly easy to accomplish. Not so this year. It seems the world is filled with Linux-powered gadgets and gizmos galore. Read More   Computer vision, robots bolster Amazon warehouses for holiday rush Amazon has added some additional robotic muscle and computer-vision chops to its warehouses ahead of the tide of holiday shopping orders. Read More     INSIDER Gamification pitfalls and how companies are avoiding them Gamification, the use of game mechanics and design techniques to motivate people to solve problems or achieve certain goals, has been in use at organizations for several years. But as the concept matures, organizations are expanding their use of gamification to reap additional benefits. Read More   WEBCAST: Surfwatch Labs How to Raise Cyber Risk Management to the C-Suite In this webcast, CSO publisher Bob Bragdon leads a discussion with SurfWatch Labs Founder and Chief Architect, Jason Polancich and Terrago Technologies Chief Executive Officer Chris Broderick, around this shift of cybersecurity responsibility from the Server Room to the Board Room. Learn More New products of the week 12.01.2014 Our roundup of intriguing new products. Read More   How to get more out of your virtualized and cloud environments After Dammions Darden arrived as the new senior systems administrator for the city of Garland, Texas, he knew that the 50 to 60 physical hosts for this 234,000-person city outside of Dallas were not running nearly as efficiently as they could be. Some had excess capacity, others were running way too hot. Read More   Schematics for 12.9-inch "iPad Air Plus" emerge with rumored Q2 2014 launch November is typically a slow time for Apple rumors, what with most of the focus centering on Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales on existing products. Still, an interesting report recently surfaced over at the Japanese-language Mac Fan magazine. Read More
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