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What to Expect From Linux This Year

Wed, January 11, 2012 - Evaluating the Linux roadmap for the coming year is difficult because, of course, no such roadmap exists. However, if you pay attention to discussions in the Linux community, you can come up with a good idea of what's going to happen in the near future. CIO.com's Joe Brockmeier looks at what to expect in the Linux world.

Canonical CEO: Ubuntu Tablet OS Will Battle Android, IOS

Wed, January 11, 2012 - Jane Silber believes there's plenty of room for a new player in tablets, TVs, and maybe even smartphones

Oracle's Latest Java Moves Frustrate Users and Vendors

Tue, January 10, 2012 - The company is under fire for modularization, licensing, and security issues

Top 10 Small Business Tech Predictions for 2012

Tue, December 20, 2011 - From more affordable virtualization to cloud everything to gigabit wireless to NAS appliances, small businesses have a lot to watch for in 2012. To help you plan for the year ahead, check our picks for top tech trends of 2012 -- all cast with the needs of small businesses in mind.

What IT Should Know About Windows 8

Mon, September 26, 2011 - The three faces of Windows 8 herald tough choices and significant changes ahead for corporate IT

Developers See Bright Future in Windows 8

Mon, September 19, 2011 - Microsoft's emphasis on touch cited as new opportunity for developers looking to target tablets in the post-PC era.

Why IT Won't Like Mac OS X Lion Server

Mon, July 25, 2011 - The new Profile Manager is a nice addition, but in almost every other respect, Lion Server is a downgrade that may prompt a move to Windows Server

Lion Letdowns: the New Mac OS X's Biggest Disappointments

Wed, July 20, 2011 - There's a lot to like about the latest Apple OS, but not everything is as great as Mac fans might believe

7 Questions About the Mac Malware Scare

Mon, May 23, 2011 - A few answers help clarify what the MacDefender scareware plague really means for Mac users and administrators

Attachmate Eyes Cloud Customers for Suse

Wed, April 27, 2011 - With its Novell acquisition now closed, the company is looking to expand the customer base of Suse Linux

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With increasing data growth, comes increased need for data security. The existing DLP model, with a focus on compliance/enforcement is not sufficient as the data discovery and classification capabilities are not granular enough. Read this paper to find how you can efficiently and accurately manage your risk by rapidly inventorying and classifying your data and then developing remediation workflows that support business needs.

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Virtualization Success is a Team Effort

As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.

Customer Spotlight: How IPC The Hospitalist Company Implemented Oracle on VMware

Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
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Deliver Private Cloud Database as a Service with VMware vFabric Data Director

VMware recently announced VMware vFabric™ Data Director, a new database deployment and operations platform that enables enterprise IT organizations to offer database as a private cloud service. Built on top of VMware vSphere 5, vFabric Data Director enables IT organizations to ontrol database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement and accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management. Attend this webcast to learn how vFabric Data Director can help you build database-as-a-service in your datacenter.

Reliable Disaster Protection with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

A simple, cost-effective disaster-recovery solution for virtual environments is high on the agenda for IT organizations as they virtualize more business-critical applications with VMware. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager-the market-leading disaster-recovery product-ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides centralized management of recovery plans, enables nondisruptive testing and automates site-failover processes.

Introduction to VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5

Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often too expensive, complex and unreliable to meet business requirements. As a result, IT departments are hesitant to expand disaster protection beyond their most critical applications, largely because they are uncertain whether the quality of the protection is really worth its cost. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager 5 is the market-leading disaster recovery product that addresses this situation for organizations of all kinds. It complements VMware vSphere to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications.

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