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BMC and VCE Partnership Shows Consortium Is Gaining Power

Is there strength in numbers? The deal VCE recently struck with BMC suggests that a consortium of companies layering in best-in-class technology might be a more effective approach to win large-scale government and enterprise customers in the private cloud space, writes CIO.com's Rob Enderle. Full Story »
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Obama Attacks Offshoring, Seeks Visa Reform

President Barack Obama Tuesday attacked offshoring, urged businesses to bring jobs back to the U.S., and renewed his appeal for visa reforms to keep foreign students from returning home after earning advanced degrees.

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The Mobile Enterprise: Killing IT's Sacred Cows

CIOs need to break with tradition or risk having IT get outsourced, say modern IT managers. But how do they gain an edge? Don't be a slave to ROI, work with startups, and bring iPads and mobile apps into the enterprise.

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Managing Information Security During an Innovation Void

Although predictions for the coming year are a staple of the season, I will do more than offer an educated guess. I am going on the record with a guarantee: In 2012 we will see an increase in network intrusions from disparate parties trying to create IT infrastructure chaos for a variety of reasons primarily political, financial and economic. An easy prediction perhaps given the trend and yet while I fully trust CSOs and CISOs and security teams are doing all they can to prevent breaches; I am deeply concerned that they still lack the technology to adequately protect IT infrastructure from malicious attacks.

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Ford Wants Vehicles to Monitor Your Health

Ford Motors has announced a collaboration with Microsoft, Healthrageous and BlueMetal Architects to bring health monitoring into cars, an effort that signals the companys intent to move away from the in-vehicle "infotainment" systems some auto makers announced at CES.

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MIT Chip Models Human Brain Synapse

Forget artificial intelligence; researchers at MIT say they've figured out how to mimic the real deal.

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10 Tech Research Projects to Watch

Researchers are dreaming the tools, technology, and products that will make up the everyday life of tomorrow

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Enterprise iPad App: A Deal Closer?

Can a new-fangled iPad app really change the way a 100-year-old energy company sells hydraulics equipment? Eaton Corp. says its new app has already led to more sales.

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Making Better Business Decisions

How CIOs are positioning business intelligence to create value for users and their companies

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Google Future Tech: 10 Coolest Google R&D Projects

From space elevators, robots, to curing cancer: Google works to make future generations brighter, healthier, and more informed.

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SAPs Innovation Plans May Lead to Skills Gaps, Says Sheffield Hallam

SAP’s new programme of innovation could lead to a skills gap, according to Sheffield Hallam University.

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New Computer Can Diagnose Breast Cancer Better Than Docs

A new computer system created by researchers at Stanford University can diagnose breast cancer better than pathologists.

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SAP Promises Innovation for Customers

SAP has promised its customers a wave of innovation in coming years.

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The Future of Human Computer Interfaces

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group are prototyping new, novel and more natural ways for people to interact with computers and access and store information. Their innovations have been designed to improve and enrich our personal and professional lives, making it easier to create, communicate, collaborate and even cook. Here are 10 inventions that enhance human-computer interactions, improve the in-store shopping experience, and even help us kick bad habits.

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Toyota Expects to Offer Healthcare Robots in 2013

Toyota Motor Corp. is bringing high tech to healthcare, as it works on a family of robots geared to lift patients and help the paralyzed walk.

 
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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.

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Applications are changing - they're increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn't working. What's needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.
VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control.

View this webcast and find out how VMware View 5 can help you:
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IT professionals are being asked to deliver faster "time-to-value" than ever before. An IDG Research survey found that CIOs are eager to invest in technologies that will enable them to get new applications and services up quickly, achieving faster time-to-value.
Learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.
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