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Quickbooks Online Outage Leaves Some Customers in Sour Mood

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Cisco all but Kills Cius Tablet Computer

Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping.

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IaaS: Renting On-Demand Technology

Putting your faith in the cloud can be a risky endeavor. A survey from earlier this year showed that of 600 large companies, only 27% were using public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

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Most Openoffice Users Run Windows

Nearly 9 out of 10 downloads of the new version of OpenOffice have been for Windows machines, rather than Linux, according to recently released statistics from Apache.

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Coding Contest Shows How Big Data Can Improve Health Care

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Use these Android and PC software recommendations to work more efficiently or interact more quickly with your multimedia files.

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Want Freedom From Vendor Lock-in? Survey Says: Choose Open Source

It's no secret that open source software is playing an increasingly prominent role in businesses around the globe, but a recent survey has uncovered a few surprising findings about adopters' motivations for choosing it.

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Microsoft's Upgrade Avalanche a Challenge for IT Pros

Corporate technology managers must take time when deciding on Windows, Office upgrade path

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Microsoft Server and Tool Upgrades Demand CIOs' Attention

Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Visual Studio 11 undergo refresh cycle

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Researchers Propose TLS Extension to Detect Rogue SSL Certificates

TACK TLS extension combines public key pinning with self-generated keys to validate SSL certificates

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IE9 Says Yahoo Axis Slows Down the Browser

Although Microsoft and Yahoo are search partners, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) may complain that Yahoo's new Axis search add-on is slowing down the browser.

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Yahoo Axis May Be Game Changer for Search and the Troubled Company

With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.

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About 4.5 Million Catholic School Students to Get Office 365

The deal between Microsoft and the Catholic Church could be escalated later to include 43 million students

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Yahoo Leaks Private Key, Allows Anyone to Build Yahoo-signed Chrome Extensions

Yahoo accidentally leaked the private key that was used to digitally sign its new Axis extension for Google Chrome

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Ellison, Phillips, Mcdermott to Take Stand in Oracle-SAP Retrial

The trial on damages is tentatively set for next month

 
Learn why a mobile development platform is critical to be able to support today's complex enterprise mobility strategies. Learn what to look for in a mobile development platform and how apply these tools whether you're developing a dedicated app for one device or multiple apps running across multiple devices.
Learn how developers are using HTML5 and native development methods to build mobile apps. Get practical insights on how these tools are being used, what's driving their usage, and how to choose the best development approach for your business.
Driven by explosive growth in smartphone and tablet sales, enterprise mobility has become an essential part of business. Organizations across industries are developing internal- and external-facing mobile applications that drive revenue, build brand loyalty, strengthen communication with partners, and enhance employee productivity. Learn how keeping pace in this market requires an agile, flexible, and iterative approach to application development.
When AlertBoot switched to the cloud it needed a load balancing solution that would support its migration and prevent as much downtime as possible. The company chose Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager to use while transitioning its infrastructure to an entirely virtualized environment. The move was a complete success, at one-third the cost of comparable hardware solutions.
With over 5,000 requests per second during peak periods, online retailer Gilt Groupe could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10 minutes of downtime. After choosing the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager as its load balancing solution, visits to the site have increased thanks to improved customer satisfaction. Real-time traffic views and tracking also make it easy to strategize and plan for the future.
With 85 percent of its ticket sales made online, See Tickets needed a robust, secure, highly accessible website. The company chose the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager to ensure that its site was always online and fast, even during extreme peaks in traffic. Now the company's valued customers receive optimal online service.
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT

Siloed organizations continue doing the wrong things and doing things wrong, leading to increased costs, project delays, lower quality, and time-to-market delays. Providing a collaborative platform where the whole organization can prioritize, share and manage deliveries with more transparency can help the organizations make more informed decisions at all levels, and greatly improve communications and traceability between teams. Hear from application lifecycle management experts how to increase delivery efficiency and effectiveness with a new approach to Delivery Management.
Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC

Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality.
With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything - down to the very last platform and application - from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really - the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.
Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, quadrupled its complex batch environment with zero extra headcount using BMC Control-M's Automated File Transfer features.
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 spear phishing works and three recommendations for IT to protect against modern threats.
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