IT budgets, salaries & priorities: 2013 SIM IT Trends Study

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How to boost Windows 8 performance Hot new products from Amazon's cloud show Network World Daily News PM November 12, 2013 Share this email IT budgets, salaries & priorities: 2013 SIM IT Trends Study Highlights from annual Society for Information Management survey of CIOs and other senior IT leaders READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. How to boost Windows 8 performance 2. Hot new products from Amazon's cloud show 3. Android, Windows Phone grow in smartphone share, while iPhone drops 4. Facebook forces some users to reset passwords because of Adobe data breach 5. Manage Linux server from Microsoft System Center? SUSE goes for it 6. Retina Display iPad Mini now available for purchase 7. Nexus 5 is designed to work on Verizon Wireless, and most other networks 8. Don't expect data on P2P networks to be private, judge rules 9. Microsoft continues green tech push with windfarm deal 10. 2013 top words include 'drones', 'surveillance', 'NSA', 'fail', '404' 11. 5-year-old's Sony tablet snub on Jimmy Kimmel show goes "poof!" WHITE PAPER: Starview Inc. Editorial Report: Where Does the SDN movement stand today? In this exclusive digital report, industry experts catch you up on the status of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement and begin to lay out how you get there from here, examining basic planning, what to look for in an SDN controller, and discussing what the Open Networking Foundation hopes to achieve with its new migration group. View more How to boost Windows 8 performance There's an unassailable rule of computing: No matter how fast your computer is, and no matter how well it runs, you want it to run better. READ MORE Hot new products from Amazon's cloud show Amazon's re:Invent conference is a hot place to show off the latest and greatest tools for the cloud READ MORE Android, Windows Phone grow in smartphone share, while iPhone drops Android grew to 81% of all smartphones shipped globally in the third quarter, while Apple's iPhones slipped to 12.9% compared to 14.4% a year ago, according to IDC. READ MORE WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware Capitalizing on Desktop Virtualization As more than half of those surveyed by IDG move to virtual desktop infrastructure, mastering its complexities has never been more important. With the right best practices and trusted partners, you can do just that--thus accelerating time to value, simplifying deployment and management, and creating organizational agility. View Now Facebook forces some users to reset passwords because of Adobe data breach Facebook locked some users out of their accounts after determining that their log-in credentials were exposed as a result of a security breach at Adobe. The company is asking users who used the same log-in credentials for Adobe's online services and Facebook to verify their identity and change their password. READ MORE Manage Linux server from Microsoft System Center? SUSE goes for it Today, SUSE announced what they call the SUSE Manager Management Pack for Microsoft System Center, which essentially provides a way to manage both Windows and SUSE Linux servers from a single console. READ MORE Retina Display iPad Mini now available for purchase As indicated by the rumor mill late last night, Apple's iPad Mini with Retina Display went live today on Apple's online store. Users who place orders are finding that shipping time is a rather reasonable 1 to 3 business days, though various models may stretch that out to 5 to 10 days. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: PC Connection Save Time and Money with Flash in Automated Storage Tiering Designing a storage environment to scale for both capacity and performance used to be somewhat mutually exclusive. Armed with new discoveries on data life cycle, storage vendors such as EMC are tackling this problem head-on. Learn More Nexus 5 is designed to work on Verizon Wireless, and most other networks The rumors that the Google Nexus 5 will operate on Verizon are likely true. That's because there is no technical reason why the Nexus 5 wouldn't work on the Verizon Wireless network, or any place else in the world. READ MORE Don't expect data on P2P networks to be private, judge rules There can be no expectation of privacy in data exposed to the Internet over a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, a federal judge in Vermont ruled in a case involving three men charged with possession of child pornography. READ MORE Microsoft continues green tech push with windfarm deal As data centers grow in size, their owners have become acutely aware of the cost both in dollars and carbon emissions. READ MORE 2013 top words include 'drones', 'surveillance', 'NSA', 'fail', '404' If 1.83 billion English-speaking people online most frequently used the "word" 404, then that's a lot of fail. And that might be why No. 1 is "404" and No. 2 is "Fail" in the list of top words for 2013. READ MORE 5-year-old's Sony tablet snub on Jimmy Kimmel show goes "poof!" Through the magic of video editing, a funny ending to a Jimmy Kimmel Live segment featuring a 5-year-old smartypants who rejected a Sony Xperia tablet has disappeared. As the kid might say, it's harder find that original ending now than it is to find South Sudan on a map. Young Arden Hayes wowed Kimmel and his audience with amazing geography knowledge, but when offered a couple of gifts at the end... READ MORE WEBCAST: Comcast IT Transformation: Making the Move to Services IT functions today are delivered on-demand from a trusted third-party, often from the cloud. CIOs can focus more on driving business innovation, and less on core functions. Hosted voice solutions directly support this shift: they are cost-effective, streamline disaster recovery and business continuity, and centralize management and processes. 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