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	The Grill: VA data guru Dat Tran on turning data into information Dat Tran, deputy assistant secretary for data governance and analysis at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says it's not enough to just collect data. He says the VA needs to transform its data into information that gives decision-makers insights into veterans' needs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Boundary, Inc. Consolidated Operations Management Points of failure are now more distributed than ever. Organizations have to manage hybrid on-premise and cloud applications. Pulling this information together in one place has been almost impossible. Read now! In this Issue Review: Office 365 administration made easy Preston Gralla: Microsoft Office squashes Google Apps, open source alternatives Oracle Data Integrator 12c ready for real-time analysis Oracle acquires Compendium to boost online marketing wares Beyond caching: Google engineers reveal secrets to faster Web sites Sharky: First rule of cost cutting: If it ain't broke... Programmers at Juniper -- not Google or Facebook -- rake in the most dough Jeff Baxter: Portability challenges for government agencies moving to hybrid clouds More than 40% of YouTube traffic is now from mobile WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology 10 Reasons You Need Network and Application Visibility Riverbed Cascade provides enterprise-wide network and application visibility with a full set of application-centric, site-centric, and business-centric views. While Cascade can coexist or integrate with a variety of other IT management solutions, it will likely become your first line of defense against application performance problems. View Now Review: Office 365 administration made easy Going beyond Office 365's native admin GUI, 365 Command provides powerful Exchange admin capabilities without the need to run PowerShell. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft Office squashes Google Apps, open source alternatives Google may dream that Google Docs will one day rival Microsoft Office but a recent Forrester report makes it clear that's only a dream. Especially in enterprises, Microsoft Office remains the gold standard, and Google Docs and others mere also-rans. Read More Oracle Data Integrator 12c ready for real-time analysis Heeding the call from enterprise customers who clamor for more immediacy in their data-driven reports, Oracle has updated its data-integration software portfolio so that it can more rapidly deliver data to data warehouses and analysis applications. Read More Oracle acquires Compendium to boost online marketing wares Oracle has acquired Compendium in an effort to offer a more complete platform for online marketing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Ideal Tool Set for APM For Better Business Performance In conducting a survey of 159 IT professionals with direct responsibility for business-critical applications, Forrester found that all enterprises surveyed had fundamental issues while managing the performance of these applications and business services. Read the report to learn the key findings of this study. Learn more >> Beyond caching: Google engineers reveal secrets to faster Web sites In the fiercely competitive world of Internet services, Google constantly seeks ways to speed up the delivery of content to its hundreds of millions of users. Read More Sharky: First rule of cost cutting: If it ain't broke... This not-for-profit organization brings in a new CIO after a series of interim IT bosses has come and gone. First order of business: Streamline the IT operation and cut costs. And how is that working out? Read More Programmers at Juniper -- not Google or Facebook -- rake in the most dough What a lucrative profession coding can be -- the best paid software engineers have an average base salary of nearly US$160,000, and they work at Juniper Networks, according to a recent survey. Read More Jeff Baxter: Portability challenges for government agencies moving to hybrid clouds While overall cloud spending will accelerate, federal agencies in the near term will continue to leverage different cloud types (private, hybrid, public) based on their specific agency needs and concerns. The leading category of government cloud service is private, but public clouds and hybrid clouds continue to gain traction. As a result, many federal agencies will be employing a multi-cloud architecture. Read More More than 40% of YouTube traffic is now from mobile YouTube's presence on mobile devices has exploded in the past couple of years, Google said. Read More
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