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	Internet as hard to give up as cigarettes, liquor, study says A survey of 1,000 people between the ages of 18 and 65 in the U.K. showed that many Britons are as emotionally connected to the Internet and their mobile devices as smokers are to their cigarettes. Read More WHITE PAPER: MSDI Why Third Party Maintenance is Right for You If you're looking to reduce costs and avoid hidden fees with a custom contract that allows you to pay for only what you need, third party maintenance may be the best option for you. Read now In this Issue Josh Stephens: Preparing your network to be managed Keeping mobile workers connected overseas Video dominates mobile traffic, survey shows SpyEye Trojan defeating online banking defenses New initiative aims to certify open clouds From CIO.com: Extending the Private Cloud: 5 Keys to Virtualization in a Global Environment Chris Poelker: The death of backup and the rapid rise of the cloud WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems How iPads Enter The Workforce iPad has exploded onto the scene. Who could have imagined that a tablet (a category introduced in 2001) would capture the imagination of employees and IT alike? But it did, and it's kicked off an arms race for smart mobile devices. Read Now! Josh Stephens: Preparing your network to be managed Over the last few weeks I've had the opportunity to visit some friends of mine that were starting IT management projects within their organizations. Those meetings got me to thinking about all the things that need to happen to enable your infrastructure for management besides just choosing the the network management software.   Read More Keeping mobile workers connected overseas The world is an unsettled place for business travelers these days. Here's how IT managers prep workers before they leave home to better cope with surprises abroad. Read More Video dominates mobile traffic, survey shows Video streaming made up 39% of all mobile data traffic worldwide in the first half of this year, and YouTube accounted for a majority of that video traffic, according to a survey by traffic management vendor Allot Communications. Read More VIDEO: Cisco Good Enough is Not Enough With video dominating internet traffic, the proliferation of mobile devices, & hackers on the rise, your network needs to be ready to avoid downtime. Now is the time for leadership through innovation. Cisco can help you shape your ideas into tools that will help your customers improve their businesses, & achieve major network-related cost savings. Learn More> SpyEye Trojan defeating online banking defenses Banks are facing more trouble from SpyEye, a piece of malicious software that steals money from people's online bank accounts, according to new research from security vendor Trusteer. Read More New initiative aims to certify open clouds After forming in 2009 and stalling a couple of times since, the Open Cloud Initiative formally launched on Tuesday in an effort to encourage the adoption of open cloud principles. Read More From CIO.com: Extending the Private Cloud: 5 Keys to Virtualization in a Global Environment CIOs tasked with managing virtual servers across a global environment have to clear some hurdles to effectively optimize their infrastructure. Read More Chris Poelker: The death of backup and the rapid rise of the cloud Backing up data has always driven data center administrators crazy. It's expensive, complicated and prone to serious errors. The reason is the amount of data always has and always will grow enormously, and it has gotten to the point where many organizations can no longer accomplish their backup and disaster recovery tasks in the available time. Read More
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