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	Land O'Lakes turns to cloud for service desk Many IT organizations have neglected their help or service desks for years. But Land O'Lakes Inc. is going in a different direction, moving its help desk to ServiceNow, a cloud-based service. Read More WHITE PAPER: Autonomy, an HP company Changing the Game with Intelligent Archiving This white paper discusses new demands on the electronic archive, the pitfalls of legacy approaches, and how to take archiving to the next level. Read Now! In this Issue HP offers new low-cost SaaS service desk INSIDER For a good cloud contract, start with an RFP Scot Finnie: Where will IT be in 5 years? Google turns its data centers into an art show Common management console is first step in Citrix cloud plan WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Protecting Enterprise Servers Learn more about the benefits of using HP StoreOnce Backup systems combined with EMC NetWorker to backup enterprise servers. This document also recommmends backup and recovery implementations. Read Now! HP offers new low-cost SaaS service desk HP, which has a long history in providing service management tools in the enterprise as on-premise systems, managed services and SaaS offerings, is releasing on Monday an entirely new SaaS product for the service desk, called HP Service Anywhere Read More INSIDER For a good cloud contract, start with an RFP All the questions that you pose to vendors in a request for proposal can be the basis for the eventual contract. (Insider; registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center In this IDC research paper, we explore how HP provides a complete portfolio of hardware, software, and services for enabling greater/faster deployment of converged infrastructure solutions in data center environments. Read Now! Scot Finnie: Where will IT be in 5 years? Most IT predictions are two-dimensional, featuring forecasts in which the big trend of the day takes over and completely changes IT. Read More Google turns its data centers into an art show Google is offering a look inside its data centers with a series of stunning photographs that would be more at home in an art gallery than a technology manual. Read More Common management console is first step in Citrix cloud plan Citrix Systems has started to detail the future of Windows desktops and applications in its virtual environments with tech previews of Excalibur and Merlin, the first versions of its Project Avalon. Read More
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