Tech companies find their inner Zen

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Tech's biggest flops, fails, and faux pas of 2013 The year's 13 greatest tech comebacks and epic wins Network World Daily News PM December 31, 2013 Share this email Tech companies find their inner Zen Tech companies like Intel and Google are offering courses in meditation to help their workers handle stress, become more innovative and find work/life balance. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Tech's biggest flops, fails, and faux pas of 2013 2. The year's 13 greatest tech comebacks and epic wins 3. What You Need to Know to Hire, Manage and Market to Millennials 4. 10 Stories That Shaped Tech Policy in 2013 5. SaaS predictions for 2014 6. Looking Back at Our 2013 Predictions: How Did We Do? 7. RSA keys snatched by recording CPU sounds with a phone 8. Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness 9. Bitcoin: 8 funny money videos 10. Toyota to bring fuel-cell concept car to CES WEBCAST: Solutionary, Inc. Information Security: Options for Threat Detection This webcast will identify the pros and cons of an on-premise SIEM and an MSSP approach, as well as provide an overview of financial, operational and organizational considerations that purchasers of security solutions may wish to consider. Learn More. Tech's biggest flops, fails, and faux pas of 2013 READ MORE The year's 13 greatest tech comebacks and epic wins READ MORE What You Need to Know to Hire, Manage and Market to Millennials Generation Y is a complicated bunch. Many millennials are over-educated, under-employed and carry debt greater than their annual salaries -- yet your future hinges on them. Whether you need to hire them or sell to them, this infographic looks at common traits of millennials as both employees and consumers. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: AT&T Four Keys to Choosing a Holistic Mobile Management Solution Getting peak value from mobile technologies takes a wide range of applications and services. Here are four capabilities every end-to-end mobile management solution must include. Learn More 10 Stories That Shaped Tech Policy in 2013 From the NSA surveillance revelations to the troubled government healthcare website to a variety of issues that didn't make the mainstream news, here are the top tech policy stories that played out in 2013. READ MORE SaaS predictions for 2014 While the bulk of enterprise software is still deployed on-premises, SaaS (software as a service) continues to undergo rapid growth. Gartner has said the total market will top $22 billion through 2015, up from more than $14 billion in 2012. READ MORE Looking Back at Our 2013 Predictions: How Did We Do? READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Cisco and Netapp Total Economic Impact Of FlexPod Data Center Platform FlexPod is a data center platform jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco that delivers networking, computing and storage. This Forrester report offers key findings from Forrester's interviews with FlexPod customers. View Now RSA keys snatched by recording CPU sounds with a phone It sounds too preposterous for even James Bond: by placing a mobile phone next to a PC, researchers can "listen" to the faintest sound a CPU makes as it churns away on RSA-encoded content and extract the keys themselves. READ MORE Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness Glue Networks, a developer of software-defined wide area networking products, has landed $12.4 million in new funding from unidentified private investors. The company also got a big sales boost from Cisco, which now includes Glue products on its price list and will compensate 14,000 sales people for selling them. READ MORE Bitcoin: 8 funny money videos The crypto-currency Bitcoin emerged in 2009 but has really exploded into the mainstream this year, grabbing positive (customer buys a Tesla Model S car using Bitcoin) and negative (paired with Cryptolocker ransomware) headlines. But you know Bitcoin has really made it because comics are embracing it. Here's a sampling from YouTube of the funny and perhaps not so funny READ MORE Toyota to bring fuel-cell concept car to CES Toyota will use January's CES to unveil its fuel-cell concept car for the first time in North America. READ MORE WEBCAST: IBM Business Value of Creating Exceptional Digital Experiences Watch this on-demand webcast to review the findings of IDC's recent analytical report titled: "The Business Value of IBM's Exceptional Digital Experience Solutions." Learn More SLIDESHOWS 10 best Android smartphones of 2013 2013 was a big year for the Android smartphone ecosystem. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. 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Telecom Ramblings: "Seven Infrastructure M&A Predictions for 2014" plus 1 more

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Seven Infrastructure M&A Predictions for 2014 Posted: 31 Dec 2013 12:48 AM PST New Year's Eve is upon us already, and that means it is time for a few bold M&A predictions for 2014. That's despite the fact that I pretty much struck out with nearly all of last year's predictions, but who's counting. This coming year's infrastructure markets seem to me to have a less certain path than usual, meaning it is harder than usual to eliminate possibilities.  Nevertheless, a prognosticator must perforce prognosticate so here goes: … [visit site to read more]

Holiday Roundup: Zayo, Level 3, LINX, and the NSA Posted: 30 Dec 2013 05:55 AM PST There have been a few interesting news items over the holidays that deserve a quick mention: … [visit site to read more]

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The Best of Everything in IT

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20 Best iPhone/iPad Games of 2013 10 best Android smartphones of 2013 Network World Daily News AM December 31, 2013 Share this email Best practices for safely moving data in and out of the cloud As everyone knows, cloud provider Nirvanix recently fell apart, declaring bankruptcy and leaving its customers in the lurch. Nirvanix gave enterprises less than a month to move their data to a new home. To avoid the fate of those customers, follow these best practices for safely moving data in and out of the cloud. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 20 Best iPhone/iPad Games of 2013 2. 10 best Android smartphones of 2013 3. PC World's 50 best tech products of 2013 4. Best tools for mobile device management 5. The best data security offense is a good defense 6. Top 10 IT Resume Tips of 2013 7. 10 top tests of 2013 8. The top 8 security threats of 2013 9. Top tech stories of 2013: Big Brother, wearables, and the struggles of aging tech giants WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Bridging the IT Gap To overcome today's IT management gap, your organization needs a fresh approach to infrastructure management. There are three key requirements for this new approach to IT management. In this paper, you'll find that three key requirements create the foundation for a management environment that is poised to meet the challenges of a new era in IT. Learn More 20 Best iPhone/iPad Games of 2013 20 Best iPhone/iPad Games of 2013 Puzzles, adventure games, dungeon crawlers, and more fun for your favorite iOS device (during off-work hours, of course). READ MORE 10 best Android smartphones of 2013 2013 was a big year for the Android smartphone ecosystem. READ MORE PC World's 50 best tech products of 2013 READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Red Hat The Road To Enterprise PaaS Interested in leveraging automation technologies and a cloud architecture to make developers more productive? Learn how PaaS can benefit your organization to help you streamline your application development, allow you to use existing infrastructure and improve operational efficiencies. Begin charting your path to PaaS with OpenShift Enterprise. Learn more Best tools for mobile device management Choosing between AirWatch, Apperian, BES 10, Divide, Fixmo and Good Technology depends on your priorities READ MORE The best data security offense is a good defense After several missed security audits, the IT team at the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare jumped into action, building an ambitious security risk framework so audit reports could be prepared in a timely fashion. READ MORE Top 10 IT Resume Tips of 2013 It's been another productive year for CIO's Resume Makeover series. You learned how to target your resume to better highlight your skills, cut out unnecessary descriptions, and list your work history and technical prowess in fewer than three pages. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Red Hat The Agility Gap in Today's Private Clouds Is your private cloud truly agile and helping your users overcome their business challenges as quickly and efficiently as possible? Read this whitepaper to find out. View More 10 top tests of 2013 Network World tested hundreds of products in 2013, but here are our top 10 tests of the year. In order to make the list, the product review had to be a comparative test of multiple products in a single category and it had to break new ground or deliver fresh insight into an important product area. READ MORE The top 8 security threats of 2013 The past year has seen its share of newly emerging or persistent threats that security and IT executives need to be aware of and in many cases defend against. READ MORE Top tech stories of 2013: Big Brother, wearables, and the struggles of aging tech giants Politics collided with the world of technology this year as stories about U.S. government spying stirred angst both among the country's citizens and foreign governments, and the flawed HeathCare.gov site got American health-care reform off to a rocky start. Meanwhile, the post-PC era put aging tech giants under pressure to reinvent themselves. Here in no particular order are IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 tech stories of the year. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Pitfalls To Avoid In Combining Acceleration Technologies This May 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. report looks at the impact of website performance on customer satisfaction and revenue, and why meeting high expectations is more complex than ever. Learn More SLIDESHOWS 10 best Android smartphones of 2013 2013 was a big year for the Android smartphone ecosystem. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. 10 best Android smartphones of 2013 2. Report on NSA 'secret' payments to RSA fuels encryption controversy 3. Inside knowledge likely in Target breach, experts say 4. 10 ex-Cisco employees making an impact in the industry 5. 'PGP' encryption has had stay-powering but does it meet today's enterprise demands? 6. Juniper vs. Palo Alto Networks: Firewall court battle set to begin 7. What's Microsoft going to look like after Ballmer? 8. Notable deaths of 2013 from the worlds of technology, science & inventions 9. Bah humbug. IT pros expect to work over holiday break 10. Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop Follow Network World Share this email You are currently subscribed to networkworld_daily_news_alert as aquarianm@gmail.com. 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