In praise of downtime

	Homegrown solutions: The good and the bad | Revenge of the 'stupid' user: Consumerization of IT
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	Downtime is ... good? A healthy dose of planned downtime can save your bacon. Don't buy into the 24/7, always-on culture unless you absolutely must. Read More WEBCAST: Nasuni Solving Multi-Site Enterprise Storage Management Challenges In this webinar we'll investigate a number of potential solutions to providing storage accessible from multiple locations within the enterprise. Learn more In this Issue Homegrown solutions: The good and the bad Revenge of the 'stupid' user: Consumerization of IT Microsoft, HP unveil joint cloud offering RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Apps for business Consider this before you set your 2012 IT strategy A communication and collaboration solution that's easy to deploy and maintain. A productivity solution that meets your needs now and automatically gets better over time—built with security in mind. A simple licensing model that is cost-effective and predictable. Google Apps offers simple, powerful tools for any business. Start the conversation. Homegrown solutions: The good and the bad Once upon a time, just about all of IT was homegrown. Today, we live in an era of homogenized, vendor-driven solutions that plug into existing infrastructures. Although "buy" seems to have triumphed over "build," both methods have their perks and pitfalls. Read More Revenge of the 'stupid' user: Consumerization of IT Technology is increasingly user-driven as "stupid" users have become smart enough to choose their own tools and work methods. This access to technology has changed the power dynamics between IT and the user -- to IT's disadvantage. Read More Microsoft, HP unveil joint cloud offering Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, hardly strangers to joint product efforts, are now teaming up to sell cloud services. They are engineering a variety of private, public, and hybrid cloud services to deliver Microsoft's business applications. The services will be available later this month. Read More
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