The United Airlines outage: Learn to manage change

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	Josh Stephens: The United Airlines outage, and why it's so important to manage change I don't know if human error caused the United outage or not but odds are that was the case. Having caused some fairly large outages myself over the years, all I can say is; it happens. Read More WHITE PAPER: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?    Using VMware NIC Teaming?    Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)    Get this essential FREE white paper now    11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff     Click to continue In this Issue Startup touting data center fabric that will put a scare into Cisco, Juniper Securing mobile devices requires enterprise and service provider controls Richi Jennings: PARC Meshin's smart search unclutters collaboration Update: Ukraine disrupts $72M Conficker hacking ring Preston Gralla: Is Microsoft blowing smoke when it says it won't be hurt by the cloud? Computerworld's new comment platform WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Exceptional Application Experience To improve and ensure the performance and availability of business-critical web applications, organizations need to be able to see and understand the actual user experience. This paper examines the five essentials of application performance monitoring. Learn More Startup touting data center fabric that will put a scare into Cisco, Juniper The ability of your data center fabric to support millions of servers with low cost and power may not be due to advances from your major switch vendor, or to standards they may embrace. Read More Securing mobile devices requires enterprise and service provider controls Enterprises are adept at securing and managing computing endpoints such as desktop and laptop computers, but most do not have the same controls and processes in place for what is likely the fastest-growing computing platform: smartphones and other smart mobile devices. Read More Richi Jennings: PARC Meshin's smart search unclutters collaboration Do you talk to several different people during a typical business day? Do you talk to them via several different media, such as email, phone, SMS, IM, Twitter or Facebook? If so, then perhaps Meshin is for you. It's the first product of Xerox (NYSE:XRX) PARC's Content-Centric Networking research effort. Let's take a look, in The Long View... INSIDER (free registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Adopting Unified Communications: Key Steps to Consider The faster your business can locate, gather and share information, the more productive and competitive you can be. That's why small and medium enterprises are upgrading to a unified communications (UC) system, which can improve customer service, streamline product development and speed response to new opportunities. Learn more. >> Update: Ukraine disrupts $72M Conficker hacking ring Ukraine's security service said Thursday it had disrupted a cybercrime ring that cost the banking industry more than $72 million using Conficker, a fast-spreading worm unleashed in 2008. Read More Preston Gralla: Is Microsoft blowing smoke when it says it won't be hurt by the cloud? The new president of Microsoft's server and tools business Satya Nadella recently claimed that cloud computing represents a big opportunity for Microsoft rather than a threat. Is that just empty bravado, or does Nadella have a clear picture of the future? Read More Computerworld's new comment platform We are pleased to announce a new reader comment system. Read More
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