Kummert described how SQL Server 2012, formerly code-named “Denali,” addresses the growing challenges of data and device proliferation by enabling customers to rapidly unlock and extend business insights, both in traditional datacenters and through public and private clouds. Extending on this foundation, Kummert also announced new investments to help customers manage “big data,” including an Apache Hadoop-based distribution for Windows Server and Windows Azure and a strategic Read more

“Virtually all workers with a laptop are becoming roaming workers regardless of where they spend their time between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,” said Rowan Trollope. “Employees are more commonly migrating over numerous network environments and geographic locations presenting IT with the challenge of enforcing usage policies, ensuring the protection of laptops and other endpoints and safeguarding employee communications.”

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With 20+ years of IT management experience, Bussmann grew up in the era of command-and-control IT. Yet, his personal style is more akin to a 20-something hipster. He uses his iPad constantly, especially the Twitterific app to personally update his @sapcio account whenever he has a spare minute between meetings.

Visitors to the Riverbed booth can learn how the company’s WAN optimization and NPM solutions can help accelerate the transmission of mission-critical data over Read more

Both the training and the certification are vendor-neutral; the student learns the fundamental knowledge to work in any vendor’s space. CTP+ does a good job of explaining how the data world and the telecommunications world intersect. This background is especially helpful for VARs and service providers who work with or support products from multiple vendors to make sure the voice, video and data networks are working just right.

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CompTIA’s A+: provides a solid foundation for any network technician in areas including installation, preventative maintenance, networking, security and troubleshooting. CompTIA’s Network+: proves a technician’s competency in managing, maintaining, troubleshooting, installing and configuring basic network infrastructures. Both A+ and Network+ are held by 10 percent of security cleared professionals.

Surgeries often last for hours, and surgeons need to look up a patient’s Read more

“We’ve added service-level dashboards that give executives insight into what’s happening with their network performance. Certainly people like storage admins, network architects and IT directors rely on that information today … but what we’ve added is the ability to communicate upward and give different heads of business the ability to see how they’re meeting [service level agreements],” Rouda said.

VeriSign SSL and EV SSL Certificates build trust by Read more

Around 35 percent of organizations have a green strategy for practices such as reducing energy consumption, equipment usage/design, recycling/product disposal, carbon footprint and employee behaviors. 42 percent firms said they have a partial green strategy, while 24 percent have no strategy in place, though these firms may still engage in some green behaviors.

Microsoft is beating the cloud-computing drum at its Tech-Ed North America conference and pointing to strong examples of Read more

Analyst firm IDC estimates that by year’s end new mobile device shipments will have increased by 55 percent, and Gartner projects that in the same timeframe, 1.2 billion people will be using mobile phones capable of rich Web connectivity. Social media archiving will grow in importance as companies unleash the power of social business but maintain archiving as a form of control to reduce information risk.

This leaves enterprises with more bandwidth available for running critical Read more

Works by 11 teen filmmakers from around the globe invite audiences to experience the world as they do every day – as a Kenyan teenager living in Africa’s second largest slum; as a 14-year-old Afghan seeking asylum in the U.K. after fleeing the war-torn country where his father was killed; and as a young U.S. Air Force enlistee whose life changes forever when she learns that toxic waste has been seeping into her community’s ground water.

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Such an architecture can improve a company’s overall ability to analyze drug data and can transform the way an organization markets and delivers its product. However, implementing this type of solu-tion requires a strong commitment of business and technical stakeholders.

In 2009 only 9 percent of firms rated green IT as an organizational priority. In 2011, 37 percent companies rated green IT as organizational priority. It is expected to increase to 54 percent in 2013. The anticipated Read more