Are your holiday rosters and tools ready?

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Editor's note Welcome to the penultimate Wrapper of the year. With the holidays fast approaching, I hope that your company has sorted out its rosters for late December and early January, and has implemented a set of automated monitoring to let the on-call folk know if something goes wrong while the turkey/seafood is being devoured or the cricket is on. Remember that just because you are on holidays, it doesn't mean that hackers or hardware have any respect for your holiday schedule. Have a good week everyone! --Chris Are your holiday rosters and tools ready? Just because you are not at work, doesn't mean that hardware or hackers respect your timesheet. Read more Resource of the day Ready for Anything: Preparing for The Future of Communications Check out this white paper to learn more about the future of the communications industry and how you can prepare for it. Shim delivered to allow small Linux distros to boot Small distributions receive booting option that avoids Microsoft's US$99 signing fee. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   10 steps to creating a Word userform for addressing letters Using a little VBA and Word's form features, you can set up a template to quickly enter address info into your letters. Read more Why employees quit their jobs Here's why employees quit their job. Managers, what can you do to reduce turnover in your shop? Read more Finding and keeping Big Data talent If you're looking to reel in the Big Data fish, make sure you have a big enough boat. Big Data talent is all around, but you must be in touch with the real costs of acquiring these resources if you ever expect to move your Big Data strategy forward. Read more Use this lightweight WAMP server to serve content on a Windows machine With the free Uniform Server, you could easily take a simple Windows desktop PC, turn it into an internal web server, and create a useful portal for whatever you need. Read more It's Microsoft Patch Tuesday: December 2012 Deb Shinder gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's December 2012 patches in your organization. Read more Even more ways to monetize your iOS App Here are a few more ideas on how to make money in a crowded app marketplace. Read more How much is an IaaS VM worth? John Joyner offers some tips for deciding if a public cloud IaaS solution is right for your organization. Read more Tech workers back need for more women in IT but oppose quotas UK IT workers argue the industry needs to address its gender imbalance but say positive discrimination is not the answer. Read more Featured multimedia   Cracking Open the HP Z820 Workstation Bill Detwiler cracks open the HP Z820 Workstation, which packs two Intel Xeon CPUs and up to 512GB of RAM and 14TB of storage in a near tool-less case. View on site Today's recommended downloads Double I/O for Windows 7/8/server 2012 - No Hardware Required (Condusiv Technologies) DCIG Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer's Guide (Quest Software, now a part of Dell) Video Webcast On-demand - ZDNet & TechRepublic's Business Case for Big Data (TechRepublic) Arbor Networks and Gartner Group Joint White Paper on DDoS Protection (Arbor Networks) Lifecycle Event Services - Technical Services Video (Hewlett-Packard (HP)) Connect with TechRepublic 10 predictions for open source in 2013 The end of 2012 is in sight, and predictions about the new year are starting to run rampant. Jack Wallen weighs in with his open source forecast for 2013. TechRepublic newsletters   Get programming, mobile development, and design tips and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Software Engineer App Builder Web Designer IT Consultant

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