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Google Drive and Skydrive and Dropbox, Oh My!

|   The popularity of consumer-level cloud storage systems have boomed in recent months, particularly with the release of Google Drive, the search giant’s new flagship cloud storage solution. The dust and hype from that release has now settled a bit, and it is time to examine the current major players...

Achieve Cloud Economics for Operations and Services

|   Only CIOs can help the business strike the right balance between the agility, efficiency, security, compliance, and integration that's required for a successful cloud strategy.

Microsoft, Don't Sell Bing (Nobody Could Afford It Anyway)

|   Bing may be a money pit that hasn't made a dent in Google, but selling Bing to Facebook, as rumors suggest, would be giving up too soon. Plus, who other than Microsoft can afford Bing?

How Much Longer Can Microsoft Be a Viable Consumer Company?

|   Microsoft announced surprisingly solid quarterly earnings last week, but once again its enterprise products saved the day while its consumer goods sputtered.

Office 15: New Features and Screenshots

|   Microsoft has given Office 15 a Metro look and feel for the touch-friendly Windows 8. But will anybody want to touch Office?

How BYOD Will Affect Your Staffing

|   New job positions are being created to handle the opportunities and challenges that the consumerization of IT brings. Do you have any of these new positions at your company?

Microsoft Pans Google Apps with Silly but Effective Mock Video

|   Microsoft definitely needs to work on its TV parody skills, but a new video roasting Google Apps gets its point across.

Three Ways BYOD Changes Company Architecture

|   The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is really taking root among companies everywhere. It’s a trend that has challenged IT departments to change the way they think about enterprise IT. I spoke to three companies that have found unique solutions in managing the BYOD trend without compromising...

Opera Mini: Better Browsing on Your iPhone

|   Tired of Safari? The Opera Mini browser is fast, easy to use, and elegant. There are small drawbacks, but it's definitely worth a try.

How Users are Changing IT Architecture (and How You Can Stay Ahead of the Curve)

|   Due to the proliferation of consumer devices being used in the workplace, the users that IT departments serve are completely different than in years past. The game has totally changed in terms of security, loss of control and support. Employees have multiple devices and expect accessibility to...

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Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most significant game changers to hit the technology landscape in the past 20 years. With this massive expansion of the cloud, the perception of the IT organization is shifting from a utility player to a change agent. This eBook breaks down five ways progressive organizations are using cloud-based IT Management solutions to help drive innovation and become more strategic, including: adding visibility and analytics, speeding up time-to-value, lowering costs, improving prioritization, and providing a blueprint for future cloud deployments.
Read the white paper to see how IBM helped Citigroup deliver new services and enhancements to their 200 million customers faster.
There are 3 ways to modernize legacy applications: rewrite completely, acquire packaged solutions or migrate existing code. This paper explains why it's best to migrate and how IBM® Rational® software can help.
Accommodating specific lines of business can result in a hybrid ecosystem of applications and servers. The resulting complexity of this architecture makes for an environment that is costly to maintain and difficult to change when addressing new challenges.
This whitepaper will help you to define a mobile device passcode policy. Security managers must attempt to reconcile two opposing goals. They must: 1) create a passcode policy that is strong enough to protect the device if it is lost or stolen, while: 2) not annoying users with needless length or complexity.
This whitepaper, authored by The Radicati Group, looks at the key reasons organizations should consider moving to a cloud-based archiving solution. Email archiving solutions enable organizations to store, monitor, and collect electronic data exchanged by their users to comply with internal policies and regulations.
ATERNITY will showcase a 30-minute demo on how Fortune 500 companies are leveraging its award-winning FPI Platform to deliver a user-centric approach to Proactive IT Management.
For businesses to move forward and tap into the ever-expanding universe of Internet users and network-enabled devices, it's critical to learn how to make the transition to IPv6. Learn the critical steps your organization must take to make a seamless transition-and keep your business world connected.
Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks.
Learn how to build a solid business case for your migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux so you can run leaner, innovate faster, be more flexible and own the New Now.
Social media isn't about you; it's about everything around you. As you consider how your customers want to communicate with you, social media is something that can't be ignored. But what should your strategy be? Is social media "just another channel?" What kind of a plan makes sense for your contact center and for your customers? Join our experts as they share their insight and research results.
Hardware tokens were a popular method of strong authentication in past years but the cumbersome provisioning and distribution tasks, high support requirements and replacement costs have limited their growth. The additional log-in steps that hardware tokens require and the resulting user frustrations have limited adoption and make them impractical for larger scale partner and customer applications.

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