[TechRepublic] AWS re:Invent highlights more features, more services, lower prices

The Enterprise Cloud TechRepublic Member | December 03, 2012

Amazon Web Services re:Invent Conference: More features, more services, lower prices Thoran Rodrigues attended this week's AWS re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas. Here's a roundup of the news and announcements from Amazon that will be good for cloud consumers as a whole. Read more Resource of the day Live Webcast: Getting the Most from Virtual Teams Join us for an interactive webinar that can change how your company operates - and how you manage for years to come. Additional TechRepublic resources   Cloud backup and disaster recovery: The Zetta approach Nick Hardiman takes a look at an online backup and recovery system that uses software agents to copy your data directly to a cloud file storage system. Here's how it works. Read more Using the power of the cloud as a platform for attack The battle between cloud service providers and the criminals who would abuse those services to launch attacks on others is well underway. Read more Choosing a Big Data vendor After establishing your core Big Data team in-house, it might be time to bring in an outside vendor for assistance. Will Kelly offers tips on choosing a Big Data vendor. Read more Kurzweil: Your brain will connect directly to the cloud within 30 years By the 2030s or 2040s, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil envisions micro-computers embedded non-invasively in the brain that will act as an interface to a "cloud" of storage and processing power. Read more Capture content using CaptureToCloud for the iPad Will Kelly takes a look at the CaptureToCloud iOS app, which lets you capture web content directly from your iPad. Read more Featured multimedia   Windows 8 navigation tips that will help you forget the Start Menu Greg Shultz shows you several techniques you can use to launch your Desktop applications in Windows 8 that don't involve a Start Menu. View on site Desktop Wallpaper: Winter landscapes Here is a gallery of public domain winter landscape photographs to get you into the holiday spirit. View on site Today's recommended downloads Securing Your Software for the Mobile Application Market: The Latest Code Signing Technology (Symantec) Live Webcast: Emerging Customer Support Channels - The Who, What and Why (Citrix Online) LogMeIn: Instant, Anywhere Remote Support (LogMeIn) The Importance of Managing Privileged Accounts (Quest Software, now a part of Dell) A New Day: How Smarter Computing can Grow Capacity on Flat Costs (IBM) Connect with TechRepublic Raspberry Pi: Inside the Pi factory This TechRepublic photo gallery offers you a look at how Raspberry Pi boards are put together at a factory in the UK. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Big Data Analytics The Editor's Daily Picks Google in the Enterprise Cracking Open 10 Things

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[TechRepublic] Beyond hype: 70 percent will use data analytics by 2013

Big Data Analytics TechRepublic Member | December 03, 2012

Beyond hype: 70 percent will use data analytics by 2013 Survey of over 1,300 TechRepublic and ZDNet members shows a growing expectation that data analytics and big data will have a major impact on businesses' performance in the next two years. Read more Resource of the day Live Webcast: Getting the Most from Virtual Teams Join us for an interactive webinar that can change how your company operates - and how you manage for years to come. Choosing a Big Data vendor After establishing your core Big Data team in-house, it might be time to bring in an outside vendor for assistance. Will Kelly offers tips on choosing a Big Data vendor. Read more Why IT should be thinking about Big Data workflows now The transition to Big Data centralization in the data center is just beginning to happen-which is why it is imperative for IT to start thinking now about how the workflow of Big Data is going to... Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Big data projects make it to the drawing board, but no further Big data might be a hot topic but tech chiefs are still reluctant to start funding projects, according to TechRepublic's CIO Jury. Read more Featured multimedia   Desktop Wallpaper: Winter landscapes Here is a gallery of public domain winter landscape photographs to get you into the holiday spirit. View on site Today's recommended downloads Protecting Android Applications (Symantec) Avoid these Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance (APC by Schneider Electric) Making Choices with DNS-Based Traffic Management (Dyn) Securing end-user mobile devices in the enterprise (IBM) Live Webcast: Getting the Most from Virtual Teams (Citrix Online) More Big Data resources   Is Big Data big hype? Big data: We've got big plans, says CIOs Big data challenges and how the cloud can help Harness Big Data with Google BigQuery Connect with TechRepublic Raspberry Pi: Inside the Pi factory This TechRepublic photo gallery offers you a look at how Raspberry Pi boards are put together at a factory in the UK. TechRepublic newsletters   Get tips, tutorials, expert analysis, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Data Center The Enterprise Cloud Google in the Enterprise CIO Insights IT Leadership 10 Things

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[TechRepublic] Beware of the Big Data hype

IT Consultant TechRepublic Member | December 03, 2012

Consultants, beware the hype of Big Data If a client is suffering from Silver Bullet Syndrome over Big Data, Chip Camden advises you to take three cautionary steps. Read more Resource of the day Live Webcast: Getting the Most from Virtual Teams Join us for an interactive webinar that can change how your company operates - and how you manage for years to come. Additional TechRepublic resources   Policies your IT consultancy should deploy IT policies aren't just for clients. In order for your IT consultancy to run smoothly, you should be adopting certain basic policies and procedures, too. Read more 10 ways automated tools can help you meet the tech challenges of 2013 2013 promises to bring increased demand on IT resources, but automated solutions can help organizations save money, reduce downtime, and operate more efficiently. Read more When doing 'something' isn't better than 'nothing': Risk assessment steps IBM security pro Jack Danahy warns that some incomplete measures may be more dangerous than doing nothing about security threats. Here are his recommendations for real risk assessment. Read more Beyond hype: 70 percent will use data analytics by 2013 Survey of over 1,300 TechRepublic and ZDNet members shows a growing expectation that data analytics and big data will have a major impact on businesses' performance in the next two years. Read more Choosing a Big Data vendor After establishing your core Big Data team in-house, it might be time to bring in an outside vendor for assistance. Will Kelly offers tips on choosing a Big Data vendor. Read more Windows Server 2012: Tips for setting share vs. NTFS permissions Scott Lowe offers some tips on how NTFS and share permissions sometimes overlap. Here's how to make sure you grant the right set of permissions to users. Read more Revisited: The greatest programming tip ever written Here's an ingenious little tip to all programmers that will (viciously) guarantee an improvement in the quality of the code you produce. Read more Featured multimedia   Windows 8 navigation tips that will help you forget the Start Menu Greg Shultz shows you several techniques you can use to launch your Desktop applications in Windows 8 that don't involve a Start Menu. View on site Five free social networking tools for the desktop Having the proper tools allows you to keep your business on top of social networking and keep you one step ahead of the competition. View on site Today's recommended downloads Securing Your Software for the Mobile Application Market: The Latest Code Signing Technology (Symantec) The Big Returns from Big Data (IBM) How to Conquer Your Fear of Phone Support (Zendesk) Making Choices with DNS-Based Traffic Management (Dyn) Solutions for Today's Smart Business (IBM) Perennial favorites   When clients embrace innovation for the wrong reasons Evaluate your consulting expertise using the Dreyfus model How consultants can deal with the Impostor syndrome Connect with TechRepublic Raspberry Pi: Inside the Pi factory This TechRepublic photo gallery offers you a look at how Raspberry Pi boards are put together at a factory in the UK. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Big Data Analytics TechRepublic UK TechRepublic Australia Wrapper Web Designer The Enterprise Cloud Tablets in the Enterprise

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[TechRepublic] A new goodie in Jelly Bean's ConnectivityManager

App Builder TechRepublic Member | December 03, 2012

Jelly Bean's ConnectivityManager has a new goodie Android developer William J. Francis demonstrates how to determine if a connection is metered, as well as some other handy information that can be gleaned from the ConnectivityManager. Read more Resource of the day Live Webcast: Getting the Most from Virtual Teams Join us for an interactive webinar that can change how your company operates - and how you manage for years to come. Build it yourself iOS Twitter client Part 3 In the final part of our Twitter app, we move on to the mentions feature, which is mostly the same code, only with a different Twitter API resource. Read more Essential elements to use from the Android Support Library The Android Support Library makes several of the operating system's important new features available to apps for older versions of Android. Read more Poll: Developers, do you pair up with business users? Answer this one-question programmer poll to let us know whether you ever work one-on-one with business users, and if so, whether you like this approach. Read more Revisited: The greatest programming tip ever written Here's an ingenious little tip to all programmers that will (viciously) guarantee an improvement in the quality of the code you produce. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Mac users' holiday gift guide Erik Eckel narrows down the safe gift choices for the Mac users on your list. Read more Infographic: What is your preferred method of wasting time at work? If you think the biggest time-waster at work is the Internet, you'd be wrong. Take a look at this infographic and see where productivity is most often lost. Read more Featured multimedia   NASA's 1975 vision of space colonization (pictures) When space exploration was just two decades old, NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a space settlement design summit looking at orbiting spaceships and how we might live in them. Here are some forward-looking illustrations from the discussion. View on site Today's recommended downloads The Big Returns from Big Data (IBM) Taking Aim at a Moving Target: Better Customer Relationships with an Integrated Mobile Strategy (Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories) Smarter Analytics mp4: Leveraging the Full Power of IT (IBM) IBM THINK - The Phenomenon (IBM) Making Choices with DNS-Based Traffic Management (Dyn) Connect with TechRepublic Raspberry Pi: Inside the Pi factory This TechRepublic photo gallery offers you a look at how Raspberry Pi boards are put together at a factory in the UK. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Big Data Analytics Tablets in the Enterprise Five Apps Software Engineer Smartphones

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