Outsourcing, adieu: Companies retake the reins on IT services

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	Outsourcing, adieu: Companies retake the reins on IT services IT departments are rethinking their outsourcing deals, making them shorter and smaller, taking a stronger hand in managing them or bringing them fully back in-house. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Storage Resource Management Suite Learn how you can visualize applications to storage dependencies, analyze configurations and capacity growth, and optimize your environment to improve storage management efficiency. Learn more. In this Issue Ballmer's chance of changing Microsoft? Don't bet on it Chrome 28 on iOS bolsters browser's ties to Google app ecosystem Smartwatches still in a 'so what' phase U.S. makes a Top 10 supercomputer available to anyone who can 'boost' America Tech groups ask U.S. for transparency in secret data requests Lawmakers say NSA phone records collection violated the law Most enterprise networks riddled with vulnerable Java installations Network Solutions restores service after DDoS attack Samsung reveals high-speed 1TB SSDs HTC adds HTC One Mini, with 4.3-inch screen, 1.7 GHz dual-core processor Open-Xchange to double development team, speed up feature rollout New Intel chief sees $150 Atom tablets this year Leap will make AT&T bigger, but who's the biggest? IBM's Q2 profit and revenue fell, but it expects a rebound this year Intel lowers outlook as quarterly profits slide SAP posts growth but lowers outlook in main software business Chipmaker TSMC reports Q2 profit up 24% Marian Cook: 6 planning considerations for the ICD-10 deadline extension JohnWThompson: Infrastructure performance management: The final piece of the puzzle WHITE PAPER: QLogic Corporation Enterprise Application Performance Scalability This ESG Lab preview summarizes the results of independent, third-party testing of QLogic's 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter with a focus on database performance improvements and cache effectiveness in single-server and multi-server environments. Read Now! Ballmer's chance of changing Microsoft? Don't bet on it Microsoft's attempt to transform its dog-eat-dog corporate culture into a kinder, gentler cooperative climate is likely doomed, an expert in failed business strategies said today. Read More Chrome 28 on iOS bolsters browser's ties to Google app ecosystem Google has updated Chrome for iOS, which now opens some links in other Google apps, yet more evidence of the search giant's push to subvert rivals' ecosystems by keeping users corralled within its own. Read More Smartwatches still in a 'so what' phase With Apple's iWatch and several competing smartwatches from major manufacturers in the works, some analysts question whether consumers will embrace such wearable technology. Read More U.S. makes a Top 10 supercomputer available to anyone who can 'boost' America The federal government is making one of the most powerful supercomputers in its computing arsenal available to any U.S. businesses that can help make the country more competitive. Read More Tech groups ask U.S. for transparency in secret data requests Influential technology companies and groups want the U.S. government to lift restrictions on publicizing secret requests for user data as the fallout continues over the scale of government surveillance. Read More Lawmakers say NSA phone records collection violated the law The U.S. National Security Agency and Department of Justice exceeded their legal authority to conduct surveillance when collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. residents, several U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday. Read More Most enterprise networks riddled with vulnerable Java installations Despite the significant Java security improvements made by Oracle during the past six months, Java vulnerabilities continue to represent a major security risk for organizations because most of them have outdated versions of the software installed on their systems, according to a report by security firm Bit9. Read More Network Solutions restores service after DDoS attack Network Solutions said Wednesday it has restored services after a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack knocked some websites it hosts offline for a few hours. Read More Samsung reveals high-speed 1TB SSDs Samsung Electronics will offer a range of faster SSD drives for consumers from next month, including a zippy new 1TB drive meant for everyday use. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Intelligent IT Operations: Making IT Smarter Consolidating IT event management in a centralized operations bridge can help you increase efficiency in the short term while setting the stage for greater competitiveness over the long term. Read Now! HTC adds HTC One Mini, with 4.3-inch screen, 1.7 GHz dual-core processor HTC has finally unveiled its much-rumored "HTC One mini" handset, and will bring the compact version of its flagship smartphone to select markets as soon as August. Read More Open-Xchange to double development team, speed up feature rollout Collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange has received a US$20 million investment that it will use to expand its development team to speed up feature rollouts for its Web-based office suite, the company announced on Thursday. Read More New Intel chief sees $150 Atom tablets this year Upcoming Atom chips from Intel will appear in tablets priced as low as US$150, the company's CEO said Wednesday, vowing that Intel will not get caught flat footed again by "the next big thing." Read More Leap will make AT&T bigger, but who's the biggest? The two biggest mobile operators in the U.S. are fiercely competitive and closely matched in size. So will AT&T's proposed multibillion-dollar acquisition of Leap Wireless change the balance? Read More IBM's Q2 profit and revenue fell, but it expects a rebound this year A rebound for IBM failed to materialize in the second quarter, as profit and sales declined along with a slump in revenue from hardware and services. Read More Intel lowers outlook as quarterly profits slide Intel reported another drop in profits for the second quarter and narrowed its sales outlook for the full year, as the declining PC market continues to eat away at its business. Read More SAP posts growth but lowers outlook in main software business SAP reported revenue growth in the second quarter driven by growth in cloud subscriptions and revenue from support and its HANA in-memory database. Read More Chipmaker TSMC reports Q2 profit up 24% Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said its net profit in the second quarter grew 23.8% year over year, driven by demand for faster and power-efficient chips for mobile phones built with its new 28-nanometer manufacturing process. Read More Marian Cook: 6 planning considerations for the ICD-10 deadline extension Deadline extensions are used greeted with a sigh of relief, if not outright celebrations. Not so with the recent ICD-10 compliance extension to October 2014. Due to all of the other interlocking projects and initiatives many healthcare organizations have going, the complexity of the re-planning is enormous and intimidating. As they say about the ocean, if you are not afraid, you don't understand. What, then, should be on our list of considerations as we step back into planning mode? Read More JohnWThompson: Infrastructure performance management: The final piece of the puzzle IT infrastructures are more crucial to running a business than ever before. End users expect access to their applications and data anytime, anywhere. IT is expected to keep the infrastructure up and running and performing optimally 24/7. At the same time, IT infrastructures are becoming increasingly complex through layers of abstraction which raises the chance that 'ghosts in the machine' will be harder to find and will have a more significant impact. So, the question IT must answer is: How do you holistically manage performance across your entire IT infrastructure? Read More
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