BriefingsDirect analysts discuss ramifications of Google-China dust-up over corporate cyber attacks Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 9th February The ongoing tiff between Google and the Internet control authorities in China have uncorked a Pandora's Box of security, free speech and corporate espionage issues. But there are also larger issues around security and Internet governance.
	Extending enterprise communications seamlessly and with carrier control Rob Bamforth, Quocirca | 9th February Moving from 'plain old telephone systems' to the 'pretty awesome new stuff' promised by convergence and unified communications will be a series of steps - enterprises need to make sure they ask carriers more questions
	Making sense of it all 2 Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 9th February In the previous article with this title I discussed the consolidation of the MDM market. The same thing is happening in the CEP (complex event processing) market. However, here matters...
	Advancing understanding of cloud-use benefits for enterprises Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 8th February We examine the evolution of cloud, how businesses are grappling with that, and how they can learn to best exploit cloud-computing benefits, while fully understanding and controlling the risks.
	Security, simplicity and control ease make desktop virtualization ready for enterprise uptake Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 5th February Enterprises are looking for ways to save on costs, and are constantly looking for different ways to more efficiently manage their distributed PC environments. All of these things are driving the high level of interest in virtualizing PCs.
	Technology, process and people must combine smoothly to achieve strategic virtualization benefits Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 4th February Many people have probably heard the term virtual machine sprawl or VM sprawl, and that's one of the risks. Part of the reason VM sprawl occurs is because there are no clear defined processes in place.
	Security skills provide top draw across IT jobs landscape Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 3rd February We interview David Foote, CEO at Foote Partners, on the IT job landscape for 2010 and to see where the recession has taken IT hiring and where the recovery will shape up.
	Apple and Oracle on way to do what IBM and Microsoft could not: Dominate entire markets Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 2nd February Apple and Oracle may be unstoppable in their burgeoning power to dominate the collection of profits across vast and essential markets for decades.

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