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CIO Columnist Black Friday, Cyber Monday: 4 SMB Lessons
By Kevin Casey
SMBs should mind these tech-focused takeaways from the annual shopping craze.

8 Cloud Tools For Road Warriors
Cloud services have become indispensable for doing business on the move. Check out these valuable tools.

Windows 8 Fizzling, Time For Windows Classic?
If Windows 8 sales don't improve soon, Microsoft might have to pull a Coke and cut its losses on its radically reengineered OS.

4 Key Elements: Strategic IT Plans
Hope is not a strategy. Thousands of IT projects launch every day -- and more than one-third crash before they get off the ground.

Microsoft Surface: My First Month
During the first week, I wanted to throw Microsoft's Surface tablet out the window. Now, my opinion has changed

Next Valley View: Tech's Feisty Upstarts
Watch November 28 at 11 PT as our live Web TV show brings you up to speed on how Dwolla, Exec, SugarSync and others are upsetting the status quo.
 

DON'T MISS VALLEY VIEW TOMORROW
Tune into Valley View, tomorrow, Nov 28 at 11 am PT/ 2 pm ET! We've got an exciting show for you tomorrow, including Dwolla, which is trying to shake up the online payments space, and Microsoft, fresh off the launch of Windows Phone 8. We'll also have some fun with Justin Kan, CEO of concierge service Exec (BYTE reporter Boonsri Dickinson asked Exec to do some crazy things for her), and Dipti Vachani of TI (EETimes editor Sylvie Barak talked with her about being a female executive in a male-dominated industry).

And don't forget our Elevator Pitch segment, featuring Kaggle and Clearstory in the big data segment, and SugarSync, one of the industry leaders in the personal cloud arena.

We'll also be giving away an Apple Mini iPad so don't forget to Register for prizes

Valley View

 
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Strategy: Expanding Role of Cloud in BC/DR
Small and midsize businesses face the same escalated cyber attacks and increased frequency and scope of natural disasters as enterprises. Fortunately, new cloud offerings can help everyone work smarter.
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Fundamentals: Application Early-Warning System
Most IT teams have synthetic monitoring of their websites down. Now it's time to extend that vigilance to client-server applications. In this report, we'll dig into the substantial logistical challenges of using synthetictransaction monitoring to inspect applications, beyond websites, and look ahead to what's happening with cloud vendors.
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Five Ways Online Backup Keeps Your Data Safe
There are five areas of critical importance that Carbonite focuses on, ranging from highly redundant disk drives to transparent access to your backup status. Download this free white paper to learn how to protect your critical business data with cloud backup.
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Enabling Data Center and Cloud Service Management for Mid-Tier Enterprises
Companies rely on the data center and IT to provide mission-critical services, like e-mail, Web, and voice. Read this white paper to learn how the combination of discovery, data aggregation, correlation, out-of-the-box analytics, data management, and reporting can yield a single pane of glass into data center and IT operations and services
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10 Cloud Computing Pioneers
Cloud computing has rewritten decades of technology rules. Take a closer look at 10 innovators who helped make it possible.

Spy Tech: 10 CIA-Backed Investments
Check out some of the latest technologies to win funding from In-Q-Tel, the venture investment arm of the CIA and other intelligence agencies. That's the first step toward use by agents and analysts.

10 Wearable Health Tech Devices To Watch
Wearable medical technology is becoming a hot commodity. As these devices come to market, they have the potential to help both patients and clinicians monitor vital signs and symptoms.

10 Best Apps For Samsung Galaxy Notes
Check out these 10 great apps that take advantage of the Samsung phablet's S Pen stylus.

8 Cool Windows 8 Tablets
As Microsoft and its hardware partners produce Windows 8 devices in droves, here's a look at some of the more noteworthy launches.





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Measuring Software Quality: Why Your Metrics Don't Make the Grade
Learn how the measures and metrics commonly utilized by leading software producers are failing to provide practical, meaningful and actionable data for organizations to improve their products and impact customer satisfaction. It happens Tuesday, December 4, 2012.

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