Facebook: The new arbiter of enterprise identity

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	Robert L. Mitchell: Facebook: The new arbiter of enterprise identity Today, Facebook knows your identity. Tomorrow, Facebook may very well be your identity. Before long, enterprise identity and access management may key off of social media identities rather than remaining an island unto itself. Are you prepared? That's the message that Gartner analyst Earl Perkins passed on to attendees at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo conference last month. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Set up and run SQL Server on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Amazon Web Services RDS for Microsoft SQL Server® makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy multiple editions of SQL Server (2008 R2 and 2012) including Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise, in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable compute capacity. Get started for free. Get Started for Free with Amazon RDS for SQL Server! Reduce the complexity and cost of provisioning and managing your SQL Server databases, and focus on your application development, with Amazon RDS for SQL Server. In this Issue JR Raphael: Top 3 Android phones on any carrier [December 2012] Preston Gralla: Windows 8 convertible devices: Born to fail Susan Feinberg: A rainy day can have you rethinking your contingency plans Stuart Kippelman: The neglected art of user training, and how to eliminate it Darlene Storm: How the Grinch would hack the power grid Richi Jennings: UN to grab net control at ITU WCIT boondoggle? Perhaps not. Sharky: Just like at work, except she'll never retire WEBCAST: T-Systems Charting a Course for Realizing Business Value in the Cloud Cloud is not simply about delivering IT services. Rather it is about vesting the organization with the agility it must have to respond to challenges and opportunities at the speed of business. View this on-demand webcast to learn how to blaze your own pathway to enterprise applications in the cloud. Learn more. JR Raphael: Top 3 Android phones on any carrier [December 2012] Thinking about getting a new Android phone? These three devices offer the best overall experiences you can find on any carrier right now. Read More Preston Gralla: Windows 8 convertible devices: Born to fail Microsoft and hardware makers have big hopes for "convertible" Windows 8 notebooks/tablets -- machines that do double-duty as notebooks and tablets. But "convertibles" and similar devices are bound to fail. They're a marketing concept in search of a reason to live, and there is none. Read More Susan Feinberg: A rainy day can have you rethinking your contingency plans The unprecedented impact of Superstorm Sandy is forcing financial institutions to rethink assumptions about disaster recovery, contingency planning, and the vulnerability of on-premise solutions. And as a result, we may see widespread adoption of cloud-based disaster-recovery solutions in which third party data centers in remote, land-locked locations are relied on to conduct mission-critical technology operations while the client institution itself is handling the disaster. Read More WEBCAST: IBM How to Take Business Analytics to the Next Level By viewing this webcast you will learn how you can implement an effective BA strategy that will deliver maximum strategic value to your company. View Now Stuart Kippelman: The neglected art of user training, and how to eliminate it The most important part of any IT project is properly training the people who will be using it. In many ways the quality of the training and the number of help desk calls it drives is the most important measurement of a successful project. Yet all too often, IT teams treat training as an afterthought and don't properly staff or fund it. Read More Darlene Storm: How the Grinch would hack the power grid Two new security warnings have made headlines, one of a coming 9/11 crippling cyber attack, and the other from a report about how America's power grid is vulnerable to attack from terrorists. It's the same old song and cautionary tale dance, except if the Grinch represented terrorists and Whoville was America, then this is how the Grinch would attack and hack our power grid. Read More Richi Jennings: UN to grab net control at ITU WCIT boondoggle? Perhaps not. WCIT, the meeting of the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU), is said to be plotting to seize control of the Internet. Naturally, this has many right-thinking people up in arms. But it also has a few less-sane voices speaking up. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers stop worrying and learn to love the ITU (only kidding). Read More Sharky: Just like at work, except she'll never retire This pilot fish is the de facto support guy for his mom -- and he used to do that support over the phone, which was extremely painful. But it turns out even remote-control software doesn't solve all the problems. Read More
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