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	Dirty IT jobs: Partners in slime Carcasses, garter belts, and anthrax -- techs get nasty in the name of IT Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 WAN Optimization for VDIs VDI consolidates remote desktop management, but in order to ensure success, bumps in the WAN must be avoided. F5 and VMware deliver WAN optimization that controls the amount of data passed back and forth between branches, removing redundant application data and optimizing unique data for each desktop. Read Now. In this Issue Shift to cloud requires fresh IT skills Thornton May: It's the data, stupid Cisco's 3 biggest weaknesses Bart Perkins: What suppliers can tell you about your own business Glyn Meek: IT consultants: A little advice to the aspiring professional ..., part 2 Cisco restructures, streamlines operations Cloud CIO: Lessons from the OpenStack Design Summit WHITE PAPER: Oracle Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Applications Oracle Tuxedo is cost-effective, reliable, and extremely scalable (up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). Finally, Tuxedo protects mainframe investments through reuse of existing IT assets in modern service-oriented architecture while significantly reducing operational costs. Read More Today! Shift to cloud requires fresh IT skills Cloud computing will require less implementation skills but more architecture chops, according to IT executive panel discussions on cloud computing at Wired magazine's CIO Leadership Forum. Read More Thornton May: It's the data, stupid Today, it's inexcusable -- if not anachronistic -- for CEOs to make decisions without data. INSIDER (Registration required) Read More Cisco's 3 biggest weaknesses Cisco has stumbled, realized it needed to change course and has begun to make those changes. This week's management and business unit restructuring is the most recent change. Read More DOWNLOAD: Hitachi Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Pinpoint root cause of network issues up to 90% faster. Automated Root Cause Analysis speeds remediation. FREE video and 30-day trial. Download free 30-day trial Bart Perkins: What suppliers can tell you about your own business Because suppliers exist outside of your corporate structure, their fresh perspective on your IT processes could be helpful. Read More Glyn Meek: IT consultants: A little advice to the aspiring professional ..., part 2 ... Last time I gave an example of a truly atrocious consulting engagement. This time, a more general set of seven points of advice that ALL 'business' and 'strategic' IT Consultants should pay attention to. Read More Cisco restructures, streamlines operations Responding to criticism of its management structure after consecutive quarters of uninspiring performance, Cisco this week restructured operations in an effort to streamline sales and engineering in five product areas. Read More Cloud CIO: Lessons from the OpenStack Design Summit Last week marked the second OpenStack Design Summit. OpenStack, if you're not familiar with it, is an open source project founded by a joint effort and code contribution of NASA and RackSpace; however, the project has grown rapidly and has many more participants today. Among companies participating in the OpenStack project: Cisco, Dell, NTT, Citrix, and many others. Read More
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