Confidence in cloud management capabilities lacking

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	Confidence in cloud management capabilities lacking, survey shows In a poll of 150 Interop attendees last week, ScienceLogic found that while 70% of respondents are either already using or planning to use cloud computing, nearly as many are not quite so sure they can effectively manage the performance of those cloud resources. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More In this Issue Is OpenFlow a go? Market value of pirated software rises, BSA report says IT pro's perfect game puts him in Putt-Putt record book Enterprise note to Microsoft: Please make Skype easier to manage! FAQ: IPv6 for enterprise networks Don't open that email! How to reduce the threat of phishing MS Office alternatives: Many are trying, few are buying As 'big data' grows, IT job roles, technology must change Cloud-based security as a service: It's catching on and here's why WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation Best Practices for Data Performance on Storage Area Networks Because SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating system's file system, SAN is unaware of file fragmentation and uable to solve this issue. Performance suffers. This white paper details in clear terms how, where and why Diskeeper data performance technology should be used to ensure maximum SAN performance and optimum data response time. Read more. Is OpenFlow a go? Interop 2011 could have been called The OpenFlow Show. Vendors were hawking OpenFlow switches and controllers, and a lab demonstration on the show floor displayed the traffic management technique and applicability among multivendor switches. Read More Market value of pirated software rises, BSA report says Booming PC use in developing countries has driven the market value of pirated software to record levels, an annual IDC study for the Business Software Alliance (BSA) industry lobby group has claimed. Read More IT pro's perfect game puts him in Putt-Putt record book Rick Baird, a 53-year-old IT manager at Brady Distributing in Charlotte, N.C., recently accomplished a feat seen only twice in 52 years (and not once since 1979): a perfect round of Putt-Putt golf -- 18 holes, 18 shots. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Distributed Virtualization Management from Big Iron Many enterprises started virtualization efforts to reap the benefits of consolidating their distributed infrastructure. This consolidation, however, has not ended datacenter infrastructure heterogeneity since enterprises seem intent on acquiring different virtualization platforms as well as heterogeneous hardware platforms. Read Now Enterprise note to Microsoft: Please make Skype easier to manage! Skype voice and video has tended to trigger IT security angst, and now that Microsoft has bought Skype, some observers are voicing hope that the service will be improved to help it be better managed in an enterprise setting. Read More FAQ: IPv6 for enterprise networks With the availability of IPv4 addresses drying up, enterprise IT managers know they need to move to IPv6, but the migration raises all sorts of questions. In this excerpt from the book 'IPv6 for Enterprise Networks,' the authors answer many of those questions. Read More Don't open that email! How to reduce the threat of phishing There are two best practices when it comes to avoiding the harmful effects of a phishing attack: email filtering and user education. Wombat Security Technologies, a spin-off from the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory, offers very innovative – and very effective – solutions in both areas. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company The Netezza Data Appliance Architecture Success in any enterprise depends on having the best available information in time to make sound decisions. Read now MS Office alternatives: Many are trying, few are buying When it comes to deploying Microsoft Office alternatives such as Google Apps, Zoho or Lotus Symphony, enterprise IT managers are in a state of intense curiosity but are still not ready for widespread adoption, according to a new Forrester research report entitled "Market Update: Office Productivity Alternatives." Read More As 'big data' grows, IT job roles, technology must change As companies look to keep every bit of data generated in-house and by customers for analytics as well as legal and regulatory compliance, the roles of those who manage it are changing as are the tools they use. Read More Cloud-based security as a service: It's catching on and here's why When technology manager Lincoln Cannon wants to give his company's employees and business partners controlled access to various internal resources or cloud-based services the company uses, he goes to one cloud-based single sign-on security service to assign access privileges. Read More
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