HP, the Steve Jobs Way; This Week's Cloud Outage: Microsoft BPOS

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• HP, the Steve Jobs Way • This Week's Cloud Outage Brought to You By Microsoft BPOS • Citrix CEO: Don't Fight the Consumerization of IT • Microsoft, Skype Deal: Skype Means Business • Cisco: $1B in Cuts Planned, Layoffs Likely • IT Pros Risk Unsecure Data Transmission • Microsoft, Skype Deal a UC Powerhouse • Cloud Providers: Security Not My Job • Managed Services, Cloud Driving Job Growth for IT Professionals Google Chromebooks to Debut on June 15 Google took a swipe at Microsoft and Apple in introducing its instant-on Chromebooks, saying they are not built on 20- to 30-year-old operating systems. The notebooks from Samsung and Acer will initially be sold through Amazon and Best Buy, but a channel play is promised, and Google's largest reseller partner says the whole thing is great news for Google partners. READ MORE >>   HP, the Steve Jobs Way HP may be a tech giant, but it has also experienced a troubled past recently with a CEO ouster, questions about its board of directors, and the WebOS plans for its devices and PCs. Apple's co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has built Apple into one of the top technology companies in the world with users in homes, schools, businesses and everywhere else. Are there lessons HP could learn from Apple's approach? Here's a look at what Steve Jobs would change if he took on the role of CEO of HP. READ MORE >> This Week's Cloud Outage Brought to You By Microsoft BPOS Does anything whip end-users into a bigger frenzy than an email outage? That's just what Microsoft BPOS customers and their ever-suffering IT administrators were dealing with this week as Microsoft experienced downtime for its hosted Microsoft Exchange email service. On the heels of the Amazon cloud outage, are we about to see some brakes applied in this race to the cloud? READ MORE >> Sponsored by eWeek Labs Gain insight on enterprise-class products from Labs analysts and your IT peers...and have your say! Visit labs.eweek.com ADVERTISEMENT Citrix CEO: Don't Fight the Consumerization of IT Citrix CEO Mark Templeton told IT pros during his Interop address that the consumerization of IT will force more changes in the next 10 years than any other technology trend. It's fruitless to fight it. That's why he says you need to feature it instead. READ MORE >> Microsoft, Skype Deal: Skype Means Business Even before Microsoft announced its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, the mostly free voice and video-conferencing company was working its way into the business market. While Skype is often dismissed as a consumer application, a survey last year showed that most business users rely on services such as Skype for their video-conferencing needs, rather than high-end systems from the likes of Cisco, Polycom and others. And Skype over the past year has been building partnerships with heavyweights serving the business IT market and making strategic moves to solidify its intentions there. Here's a look at what Skype's been up to. READ MORE >> Cisco: $1B in Cuts Planned, Layoffs Likely Cisco will cut $1 billion in expenses, most of it by the end of its first fiscal quarter in October, but would not comment on how much of that would come from workforce reductions due to the sensitivity of private employee matters. The cuts are intended to help Cisco right itself again after its CEO John Chambers has acknowledged that the networking giant has lost its way. READ MORE >> How to Get Started with Cloud Computing View this panel discussion with IBM cloud computing leaders on how enterprises can get started with cloud computing -- reviewing which workloads make sense to move first and the right type of cloud for workloads. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4: A Guide This document will also show that the same best practices, tuning tips and tricks, and skill sets necessary to deploy Oracle databases in physical environments can be leveraged when deploying Oracle databases in virtual environments. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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