Survey: State of the enterprise 2014

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	INSIDER Survey: State of the enterprise 2014 Cloud, mobile and other tech investments are expected to yield benefits to both the top and bottom lines. But communication, integration and shadow IT challenges lurk. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Enterprise Collaboration Strategy An Enterprise Collaboration Strategy will help organizations speed up innovation, better serve customers and quickly pivot to adopt rapidly changing Unified Communications & Collaboration technology. But for organizations to define an effective Collaboration Strategy, they must be able to answer several critical questions View Now In this Issue In rare move, banks sue Target's security auditor The Enterprise of Things Career Watch: The rise of people architecture Mozilla names Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript, as CEO Facebook buying Oculus VR for $2 billion Ballmer hints he may step down from Microsoft board Spherix sues Cisco for 'immense' patent infringement RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) FREE Trial SolarWinds NPM works as your early warning system to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages. Use this early warning system to stop network outages before they affect your users, so you can spend your time monitoring your network rather than supporting your network monitoring software. To find out more about how this early detection system works reference the free, fully functional 30-day trial of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor. Download now and start discovering your network within an hour! In rare move, banks sue Target's security auditor Two banks that claim to have suffered losses from the recent data breach at Target have sued Trustwave Holdings Inc., the company that was responsible for validating Target's compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Read More The Enterprise of Things Consumers will lead the charge to the Internet of Things, but enterprise adaptation will not be far behind. Will your IT department be ready? Read More Career Watch: The rise of people architecture In managing human resources, people architecture is gaining popularity, says IT workforce analyst David Foote. He explains what it is and why it's on the rise. Read More WHITE PAPER: Velocity Technology Solutions, Inc. Secure, Agile ERP Best Practices Take advantage of a more nimble and resilient ERP infrastructure. Learn how one enterprise turned to hosted application services delivered via a virtual private cloud. Learn More. Mozilla names Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript, as CEO Mozilla named co-founder Brendan Eich, best known as the creator of JavaScript, as its new CEO, filling the spot that had been vacant for nearly a year. Read More Facebook buying Oculus VR for $2 billion Facebook is buying virtual reality startup Oculus VR for about $2 billion dollars. Oculus makes the Rift virtual reality headset that's received more than 75,000 orders for development kits. Follow reporter Melissa Aparicio on Twitter @MelisAparicio Read More Ballmer hints he may step down from Microsoft board Microsoft's former CEO, Steve Ballmer, hinted recently that he may soon step down from the company's board. Read More Spherix sues Cisco for 'immense' patent infringement A company that bought Nortel patents is suing Cisco Systems, alleging "immense" infringement by the network vendor's switches, routers and other products. Read More
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