IT Today: Characteristics of Successful Cloud Projects By James Alan Miller January 31, 2013 11:58 AM Tags : Today on TIP Today On TIP: How to Predict The Success Of Your Cloud Project, Gigabyte Announces Server and Workstation Motherboards, Pentagon to Hire Thousands of IT Professionals to Boost Cybersecurity, Open Source Tools to Manage Macs in the Enterprise, iOS 6 Security, and more. How to Predict The Success Of Your Cloud Project The top cloud projects share unique characteristics that point to a guideline on how avoid failure. Gigabyte Announces Server and Workstation Motherboards Company to roll out three new motherboards to cater to server and workstation vendors. Pentagon to Hire Thousands of IT Professionals to Boost Cybersecurity Plans to expand cybersecurity forces to prevent attacks and increase security of the government and nation’s computer networks. Open Source Tools to Manage Macs in the Enterprise Munki, Simian, and Cauliflower Vest: Three open source tools to help IT pros manage Mac computers in the enterprise. iOS 6 Security: Facebook, Twitter and Advertising The iPad and iOS operating system is tightly integrated with social networks. Under Settings in iOS 6, there are sections specifically dedicated to Twitter and Facebook. 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. Sponsored: Converged Clouds Empower IT The cloud a key component of enterprises ability to gain unconstrained access to information and IT resources. Is Google’s Chromebook Enterprise Ready? Today? No. Three to Five years from now? Yes. 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He is a veteran technology journalist with over seventeen years of experience creating and developing magazine and online content. Founding editor of numerous business and enterprise computing sites at the internet.com network, James headed up the After Hours section at PC Magazine, as well as hardware and software sections of various Windows publications. See here for all Tom's IT Pro articles written by James. Recent IT VideosVIDEO: How Secure Are Your Mobile Devices?Enterprise mobile devices are proliferating like rabbits in the spring. Rachel Rosmarin tells you how to keep them under control.VIDEO: Big Data, Big Hardware, Big SoftwareAs data grows so must the hardware, software and access tools to give it meaning.VIDEO: Quick Look - Intel S2600CP MotherboardA 3D fly-through of Intel's S2600CP VIDEO: Quick Look - Intel S2600IP MotherboardA 3D fly-through of Intel's S2600IP motherboard.VIDEO: Data Center ConvergenceEverything you need to know about the new data center. 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