The End Of Data Centers? | How To Lose Your Best IT Employees

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How To Lose Your Best IT Employees
By Chris Murphy
Ignore what motivates people in their jobs and they'll eventually leave. Our IT Salary Survey provides data you can use to cultivate your top performers.

Amazon: Era Of Data Centers Ending
At Amazon Web Service Summit 2012, Amazon's Adam Selipski cites "undeniable signs" of a cloud transition. Within 20 years, most enterprises will run entirely in the cloud, he says.

Oracle, Google Struggle To Explain APIs To Jury
Day four of Oracle's copyright and patent lawsuit against Google's Android OS brings a lesson in API design and programming that even the judge declares 'confusing.'

iPhone 5 May Get New Display, 'Liquidmetal'
Reports that surfaced this week suggest the next iPhone will use brand-new touch screen technology and will be encased in something called "liquidmetal."

FBI Seizes Anonymizing Email Service Server
Privacy activists criticize the FBI's anonymous remailer server takedown that resulted from a bomb threat investigation.

Apple Mac Attack Began With Infected WordPress Sites
Security researchers watch for a possible Flashback comeback by the botnet operators.

OpenStack Is Not A Proprietary Cloud, Kemp Argues
Former NASA CTO and Nebula founder Chris Kemp says private clouds will need to be based on a flexible, general purpose set of open source code that can work with public clouds.

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•	OpenStack Is Not A Proprietary Cloud, Kemp Argues
•	Strategy: Development Labs in the Cloud
•	Planning Security Budgets: Quantify the Financial Risk of DDoS
•	Mac Trojan Fallout: Apple Security Glory Days Gone?
•	Prepare Your Infrastructure For The Cloud Using Open Standards
•	It's Coming: Interop Las Vegas

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Planning Security Budgets: Quantify the Financial Risk of DDoS
IT security managers have the difficult task of assessing the threat landscape and allocating limited funds to minimize their exposure to DDoS attacks. This paper offers guidelines and a framework for setting security budget priorities, based on risk and consequences of an attack on your business operations.
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Gartner Report on iPaaS: Moving Integration to the Cloud
The explosive growth of cloud computing has fueled the need to integrate Cloud applications with each other and with on-premise applications. Traditional integration approaches are evolving into more functionally complete offerings called integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solutions. Learn more about this technology and what impact Gartner believes it will have on the industry.
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Mac Trojan Fallout: Apple Security Glory Days Gone?
Apple's reputation as an unattractive target for malware writers changed when the Flashback trojan hit more than 600,000 Macs. But Windows security still looks worse.

2012 IT Salary Survey: 12 Career Insights
Nearly 14,000 IT pros took our 2012 salary survey, providing insights into salaries and bonuses. What can you learn to increase your paycheck and career satisfaction?

Windows 8 Enterprise: 6 Key Features For IT
Microsoft has added new enterprise features to Windows 8, while enhancing some holdovers from Windows 7.

10 Essential Android Apps For SMBs
No glitz, no glamour, just results: These 10 budget-friendly Android apps help SMB users simplify everyday tasks and power through to-do lists.

10 Massive Security Breaches
They make the news on a regular basis: incidents in which a company or government agency's security is breached, leading to a loss of information, personal records, or other data. There are many ways to measure the size or cost of a security breach. Some result in the loss of millions of data records, some affect millions of people, and some wind up costing the affected businesses a lot of money. Not to mention, the questions of you calculate the value of personal medical information vs. credit card numbers. Here are ten security breaches of epic scale, plus one "bonus" incident that ranks among the boneheaded moves of all time.

SLIDESHOWS

Oracle Vs. Google: Tour The Evidence
Oracle and Google continue to fight a nasty courtroom battle over patent and copyright claims involving Java and mobile phones. Consider some of the crucial evidence introduced so far. View Now

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Client-Side Storage with Pamela Fox
Pamela Fox, founder of EatDifferent, discusses Client-Side Storage and how new APIs let you make use of powerful clients to improve both performance and user experience. Watch

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Prepare Your Infrastructure For The Cloud Using Open Standards
Take part in our Interop Webcast which will look at the new drivers influencing cloud infrastructure. It happens April 18. More Information & Registration

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