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Date: Apr 30, 2014 2:12 PM
Subject: VMware outlines vision for unified mobile security/management
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| Network World Daily News PM | | | | VMware today put forward its "vision" for unifying the mobile security and management technology it acquired in its $1.5 billion acquisition of AirWatch earlier this year with its traditional line of virtualization software. | | | Issue highlights 1. History's 15 most popular computer scientists 2. How IBM is starting to look at lot like Amazon in the cloud 3. Why CIOs Shouldn't Block Rogue Cloud Apps 4. EMC's Project Liberty could free storage software from hardware 5. 7 iPhone Battery Tips for Advanced Users 6. Red Hat to acquire Ceph open-source storage provider Inktank 7. 6 free network vulnerability scanners 8. How to recover data from an old SCSI drive 9. Google stops scanning Gmail messages for ads in Apps for Education 10. Fave Raves: 33 tech pros share their favorite IT products | | RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: BlackBerry BlackBerry has launched a free EMM license offer to persuade enterprises to upgrade their existing BlackBerry MDM platform, or migrate from any other MDM vendor*. Switch to BES10 and get perpetual Silver level EMM licenses for each existing BlackBerry license or other active MDM licenses, 1 for 1. Good, AirWatch and MobileIron licenses count too. Find out how your BlackBerry, iOS and Android management can be consolidated onto a single, highly secure EMM platform. If you've been waiting for the right time to switch to BES10, this is it. Read More about EZ Pass | | The MIT Media Lab uses Wikipedia data to rank which computer scientists have made the biggest impressions globally over time READ MORE | | Log on to a portal, swipe a credit card and get access to virtual machines, storage, SaaS applications and dozens of other cloud-based services. No long-term contracts, no on-site, in-person planning teams or months-long roll out initiatives. Log on and spin up. Guess which company offers these services? Amazon Web Services was the first. But after this week IBM - yes the kings of the big IT-project... READ MORE | | Enterprises have an average 461 cloud apps running in their organizations (nine to 10 times IT's estimates), according to some reports. Line-of-business managers hesitate to bring in the CIO out of fear of being blocked. If CIOs can remove this fear, everyone, it turns out, benefits. READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Apperian Download this guide and learn how to manage the secure deployment of enterprise mobile apps and data, while still encouraging the levels of employee adoption needed to drive the productivity and ROI gains that are possible. Learn More | | EMC will give users a peek at its progress toward software-defined storage next week at EMC World in Las Vegas, demonstrating a virtualized VNX array developed under a program called Project Liberty. READ MORE | | Battery life has never really been the iPhone's strength, though it has improved since 2007, the year the first iPhone was released. The original iPhone got about eight hours of talk time, according to Apple, while the latest Apple smartphone, the iPhone 5s, gets about 10 hours talk time. The first iPhone had a 1440mAh battery and the iPhone 5s has a 1570mAh battery. Capacity only increased by 12 percent during the last six years, according to ZDNet.com, while average life increased by 25 percent. READ MORE | | Taking a step into the rapidly emerging market for software-defined storage, Red Hat has agreed to acquire Inktank, the company behind the Ceph open-source storage system, for approximately US$175 million in cash. READ MORE | | WEBCAST: Network Instruments This webcast discusses five best practices on how to successfully optimize and manage UC, as well as how to gain clear picture of overall performance and quickly troubleshoot when the inevitable issues arise. Learn More | | These tools help automate the detection and remediation of vulnerabilities READ MORE | | 'Tis the season for spring cleaning, and maybe you've found an old Mac in a closet or off to the side somewhere in your garage. That Mac is a time capsule and it might be fun to see what's on the hard drive. The challenge: how to transfer data from your old Mac's SCSI hard drive to your current Mac. READ MORE | | Google will no longer scan the email messages of students and other school staff who use its Google Apps for Education suite, exempting about 30 million users from the chronically controversial practice for Gmail advertising. READ MORE | | What IT pros like, in their own words READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Intigua Discover how virtualizing the management layer, by de-coupling agents from the underlying server infrastructure, eliminates the need to install physical agents on servers and makes ongoing management tasks such as provisioning and updating agents as simple as copying a single "virtual agent" file to all required servers. Read more. Learn More | | | | | | | | | | |
