IT Today: Lower IT Management Costs, Ruminations on the State of Greybeard IT, Gigabyte's New Supercomputing Server By James Alan Miller March 15, 2013 11:55 AM Tags : Today on TIP Tom's IT Pro: Four Roads to Lowering IT Management Costs, More Ruminations on the State of Greybeard IT, Gigabyte Releases New Supercomputing Server, Software Licensing in a Virtual World, Enterprise Unified Communications, Multi-Factor Authentication, and more. Four Roads to Lowering IT Management Costs Pursue these strategic paths to free up maintenance resources and apply them in more effective areas that benefit the organization’s long-term goals. More Ruminations on the State of Greybeard IT IT training and certification guru Ed Tittel advises those over 55 looking for work in IT. Gigabyte Releases New Supercomputing Server Announces new supercomputing server, the GS-R22PHL, designed with high performance and energy efficiency in mind. Software Licensing in a Virtual World While virtualization is supposed to help simplify IT environments, there is one aspect that virtualization can complicate – licensing. VIDEO: Increase Security with Multi-Factor Authentication More securely protect business and personal apps and data. VIDEO: Unified Communications - Local or In the Cloud? PBXs are good systems. But UC suites can do a lot more for less. Enterprise Unified Communications What unified communications means and why it’s necessary. Avoid Network Performance Problems with Automated Monitoring Network administrators can streamline the troubleshooting process by deploying automated monitoring systems. Moore’s Law In Pictures: An Illustrated History of the MicroprocessorConsider the orders of magnitude (and sheer manufacturing prowess) required to morph the very first 4-Bit microprocessors into the multicore powerhouses we use today. Cartoon: King on IT: BlackBerry Gets Back in the Ring BlackBerry training hard to get back into fighting shape so it can challenge current heavyweight smartphone and tablet champs Google and Apple. The Four BYOD Integration Challenges Careful planning across all involved interest groups will deliver a straight forward strategy to adopt BYOD. Mellanox to Open Source Its Ethernet Switches Plans to open source Ethernet switches in an effort to gain an edge in an era of software defined networking and open source software. Jeopardy, IBM and Watson as a Service IBM's Jeopardy-winning supercomputer to become the basis of a series of revenue-generating products. VIDEO: Increase Your Internet Privacy With PETS Our favorite PETs to maintain security and privacy online. Unified Communications: Beware of Cutting Corners As with an IT project, you cut corners in a UC deployment at your own peril. So be careful. 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