5 tips for keeping IT projects on track

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	5 tips for keeping IT projects on track What really works to keep IT projects from going off the rails. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Managed Private Cloud Protect and manage your entire enterprise continuously with Code42's simple, efficient Managed Private Cloud. Simply plug it in and rely on our data experts to manage the rest. Learn More In this Issue Two little words that destroy your credibility Microsoft, frustrated as ever with H-1B policy, considers options EU tells Google to make more concessions or face charges in antitrust dispute Google's massive new Dutch data center to cost $770M Growing startup scene, employer loyalty lure tech talent to Midwest EMC reportedly held merger talks with Hewlett-Packard WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology How WAN Optimization Helps Enterprises Reduce Costs If you wanted to break down innovation into a tidy equation, it might go something like this: Technology + Connectivity = Productivity. Productivity comes in two forms: user experience and infrastructure efficiency. Read Now Two little words that destroy your credibility We in IT have to realize that only users get to decide whether 'it's fixed.' Read More   Microsoft, frustrated as ever with H-1B policy, considers options A two-day conference on high-skilled immigration policy, which attracted researchers from the U.S. and Europe, offered Microsoft an opportunity to voice frustration over U.S. immigration policy. Read More   EU tells Google to make more concessions or face charges in antitrust dispute   Google has to improve its settlement terms in an antitrust investigation over its search practices or face charges, following opposition from some quarters to the deal, the European Commission's competition chief Joaquin Almunia said. Read More   WEBCAST: Interactive Intelligence How Moving Your Contact Center to the Cloud Eliminates Risk The total cost of ownership (TCO) debate between a premises and cloud decision continues to wage on. Depending on how you look at it, it seems that you arrive at a different conclusion. However, the missing factor in nearly all cloud contact center and unified communications TCO discussions is the consideration of buyer risk. Learn More Google's massive new Dutch data center to cost $770M Eemshaven's mean, green, advertising machine: Google is to build a new European data center in the Dutch city of Eemshaven, Groningen. It's said to be "hyper-efficient," whatever that means. But la GOOG isn't the only company interested in the area. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers go green with envy. Read More   Growing startup scene, employer loyalty lure tech talent to Midwest While the central part of the U.S. may lack the technology cachet of its coastal counterparts, IT professionals are attracted to the region's burgeoning startup movement, its abundance of top-tier companies, sense of employer loyalty and more affordable cost of living. Read More   EMC reportedly held merger talks with Hewlett-Packard HP CEO Meg Whitman would have led a combined company, according to the Wall Street Journal Read More
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