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Workforce-as-a-service scales to meet IT staffing needs on demand

Posted October 1, 2013 - 4:37 pm

What if you could scale your IT personnel requirements as you would computing resources? Using a workforce-as-a-service model lets you add a skilled, vetted and insured workforce when you need it and release it when you don't.
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Cloud Security Alliance's new guidelines focus on mobile, data management

Posted October 1, 2013 - 4:33 pm

The Cloud Security Alliance has updated its Cloud Control Matrix (CCM), which is designed to help organizations vet the security credentials of cloud service providers.
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Dell updates private cloud to become PCI compliant

Posted October 1, 2013 - 4:32 pm

Looking to solidify its refocused efforts on private cloud platforms, Dell today rolled out new features to improve security and manageability of its offerings.
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Aruba announces cloud-based Wi-Fi management service

Posted October 1, 2013 - 3:57 pm

Aruba Networks announced a new Aruba Central cloud-based management service for Wi-Fi networks that could be valuable to companies with branch operations, schools and mid-sized networks where IT support is scarce.
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BlackBerry's MDM business still has value, despite handset woes

Posted October 1, 2013 - 3:37 pm

While the tone of most recent media coverage of BlackBerry has understandably been one of doom and gloom, the company's mobile device management business retains substantial value, according to financial researchers.
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5 millennials-in-the-workplace myths busted

Posted October 1, 2013 - 3:36 pm

Forget what you think you know about Generation Y. A recent survey dispels many of the myths surrounding millennials and the digital culture. Turns out age may be nothing but a number.
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Mobile app lets jewelry retailer test in-store discounts

Posted October 1, 2013 - 3:19 pm

Alex and Ani, a popular jewelry chain, is testing Swirl, a mobile app that offers discounts to in-store shoppers via geofencing.
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Microsoft to pay execs who stay, pay those culled during reorg turmoil

Posted October 1, 2013 - 3:15 pm

Awards $60M to 8 execs on the same day that board okays retention payments.
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Frost & Sullivan: Leveraging Technology for Innovation and Success: Embracing IaaS to Bridge the Divide between IT and the Lines of Business

Posted October 1, 2013 - 3:02 pm

This Frost & Sullivan paper presents the many opportunities for C-level management, IT, other services lines and the LOBs to align and unite behind common goals to embrace Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and to ensure growth and sustained revenue.
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HP opens up on SDNs

Posted October 1, 2013 - 2:58 pm

HP this week is establishing an "open" approach to SDN intended to accelerate programmable network deployments and stimulate demand for its switches and routers.
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3 tips for communicating with millennials

Posted October 1, 2013 - 2:40 pm

A leadership coach provides advice on how to engage and give feedback to millennials while keeping them accountable.
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Virtualization will let operators develop new services faster, says Alcatel-Lucent

Posted October 1, 2013 - 1:32 pm

To help operators virtualize their infrastructures, Alcatel-Lucent has opened up to third party vendors an internal cloud platform that will run features such as DNS and firewalls.
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French ISP Free offers fiber customers 1Gbps upgrade for no cost

Posted October 1, 2013 - 11:36 am

Customers of French ISP Free will soon see their fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connections upgraded from 100Mbps to 1Gbps, with no change to the monthly fee of €36 (US$50) including tax.
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Staples lab delivers omnichannel apps

Posted October 1, 2013 - 8:54 am

The $24 billion office-supply company is relying on its new Velocity Lab to develop innovative retail technologies.
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Rivals to again review Google's promises in EU antitrust case

Posted October 1, 2013 - 6:12 am

The European Union is to put Google’s latest proposals to the marketplace in order to allow competitors and rivals to assess the search giant’s plans to avoid antitrust sanctions.
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Intel to acquire network security firm Sensory Networks

Posted October 1, 2013 - 12:27 am

Intel has signed a deal to acquire Sensory Networks, a provider of software pattern matching technology for network security applications.
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Facebook widens Graph Search to include posts, status updates

Posted September 30, 2013 - 7:00 pm

Facebook has started to include more types of content in Graph Search, a tool for searching what others have been posting about on the social network
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Defense in Depth Matures

Posted September 30, 2013 - 6:45 pm

Over the last few years, security risks have grown exponentially. Hackers, attackers and a motley crew of cyber thieves have enlisted far more sophisticated attack methods to put computers and entire networks at risk.
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After getting star billing, Oracle's Fusion Applications take a supporting role

Posted September 30, 2013 - 4:44 pm

Last week's OpenWorld conference made on thing clear: Oracle remains committed to its next-generation Fusion Applications but massive growth in the product line is probably not around the corner.
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Cisco, Intel push 'trusted geolocation in the cloud'

Posted September 30, 2013 - 3:54 pm

Cisco and Intel say that companies wanting to make use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds should be aware that controls exist for keeping virtual workloads on servers within country borders.
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Through a glass darkly: Microsoft's new financial reporting format

Posted September 30, 2013 - 3:16 pm

CIOs will have a harder time evaluating how well key Microsoft products are selling now that the company has restructured the way it breaks down its revenue streams, according to analysts.
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Is that hotspot safe to use? Wi-Fi Alliance wants to help

Posted September 30, 2013 - 12:08 pm

Security-savvy mobile-device users are increasingly casting a skeptical eye on public Wi-Fi, and now the vendor consortium behind the wireless standard wants to make logging in via that coffee shop network a bit safer.
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Free open-source SDN app will analyze your network's complexity

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:56 pm

Enterprise infrastructure company Infoblox announced this week that it plans to release a free and open-source software tool called Tapestry aimed at generating a hard measurement of any network's complexity.
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France sanctions Google for European privacy law violations

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:56 pm

Google faces financial sanctions in France after failing to comply with an order to alter how it stores and shares user data to conform to the nation's privacy laws.
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Adapting networking strategies and techniques for today's challenges

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:46 pm

Without a reliable network, many (probably most) organizations would have to simply shut their doors.They could not operate on a daily basis.
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