This Week In IT: 11/16/12

This Week On Tom's IT Pro: Trading Your Laptop for a Tablet, Cloud Services, Storage Management Features, Mobile Device Security, Open Source Excellence, Social Media Certification, Election 2012 and IT, AMD's ARM Processor Gamble, and more.

• IBM Intros New Storage and Management Features for PureSystems

IBM is expanding its PureSystems portfolio with a new storage solution.

• Brocade Acquires NOS creator Vyatta

Vyatta is best known as the creator of the first platform-independent network operating system.

• Public IT Cloud Services Projected To Grow 19% Per Year

IDC estimates that public IT cloud services in the U.S. will grow from a volume of $18.5 billion in 2011 to $43.2 billion in 2006. 

• Slideshow: A Guide to Trading Your Laptop for a Tablet

Tired of lugging around your laptop? Check out some apps and accessories that provide laptop-like functionality on your iPad or Android tablet.

• Cobalt Iron Unveils Enterprise Security Suite

Startup Cobalt Iron has rolled out a new cloud-based data protection suite for enterprises.

• Collaborative Applications, CRM Applications Drive Software Market

The global software market has held stable in the first half of 2012, growing by 4.7 percent to a volume of $167 billion, IDC said. 

• Microsoft Moves BizTalk 2013 Server Into Public Beta

Microsoft recently announced the availability of the beta version of BizTalk Server 2013. 

VIDEO: 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.

• Battle Royale: iPad and Android Tablet Security Compared

How can IT pros safely enable business use of popular consumer tablets such as the Apple iPad and the Android Samsung Galaxy Tab?

• AMD FirePro S10000 Server Graphics Card Introduced

The world's first professional graphics card to exceed a double-precision floating-point performance of 1 TFlops. 

• Tips for Keeping Corporate Data Secure on Private Devices

When we start to use our personal devices for work, we can run the risk of weakening data protection. 

• Mobile Device Security Policy: A Check List for IT

To be ready when there is a security issue with a personally-owned employee device, you need to update your security policies.

• EaseUS Deploy Manager Makes System Image Deployment Easier

A new version EaseUS Deploy Manager is now available. 

• Microsoft Adds In-Memory Technology To SQL Server

Shares some information about a key feature in the next version of SQL Server.

• Mobile Device Management Features That Improve Security

Mobile devices are as much a part of IT computing infrastructure today as servers and workstations.

Interview: Stuart Kerr of Aerospace Corp - Achieving R&D Open Source Excellence

A talk with The Aerospace Corp's Principal Director of Technical Computijng Stuart Kerr, who runs a large R&D Linux infrastructure using a variety of open source technologies (clobber, puppet, spacewalk, etc.).

• Skype In The Workspace Finally Out of Beta

Launches a free-to-use online platform for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

• Intel Discontinues Modular Server Virtualization Manager

Notifies customers that it is phasing out its Modular Server Virtualization Manager.

• Microservers: TI Announces Six New ARM-Based SoCs

Texas Instruments Keystone ARM SoC: 200 GFlops, 13 Watts.

• VIDEO: Cloud Services: No Buzz, No Bull

Straight talk about cloud services.

• Intel Intros Next-Gen Data Center SSD

Meet Intel's second-generation data center-focused SSDs, the S37oo Series.

• HP's New mt40 Mobile Thin Client Arrives Next Month

Company launching a new mobile thin client, the mt40, in mid-December.

A Fresh Idea: How to Transition Military Veterans to a Life in IT

Meet Brian Knight, founder of Pragmatic Works, who is training and preparing veterans for a life in IT ... free of charge.

• Social Media Security Professional Certification Now in Beta

New certification set to go live in early 2013. 

• AppliedMicro Joins Dell's ARM SoC Testing Portfolio

AppliedMicro is the first company to show off a 64-bit ARM processor.

• AMD Launches 6300-Series Opteron CPUs

Updates with the Piledriver processing core that was previously introduced for desktop PCs and notebooks. 

• Amazon Doubles IOPS of Elastic Block Store

Tells customers of its Elastic Block Store (EBS) that they can now provision up to 2,000 IOPS per EBS volume.

• Slideshow: Intel Processors Over the Years

A visual walk through the history of Intel processors from the early 1970s to today.

What Can Enterprise Tech Expect From Obama's Re-Election?

The 2012 presidential election’s implications for IT over the next four years.

James Alan Miller is Managing Editor of Tom's IT Pro. 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.

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