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How to avoid 5 common email management mistakes

Email managers have a lot at stake. After all, the volume of global electronic messages sent via email dwarfs all other forms of electronic communication, including social networking. Since the inception of electronic mail, which, according to some Internet historians, can be traced to a small mainframe app called 'MAILBOX' from the mid-1960s, human-to-human messages have been created, transmitted and stored in electronic format. But early email administrators could hardly have envisioned the complexity of current email infrastructure and the concomitant maze of technical, security, business and regulatory challenges.

From what to watt, Emerson aims at total information awareness

Someday, the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as data centers, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon's cloud

SAP's Afaria mobile device management tool is now available on Amazon Web Services' cloud, offered as a way to make it easier to start using the platform, SAP said at the Sapphire conference on Monday.

Researcher runs IP network over xylophones

Vint Cerf once wore a shirt that read "IP on Everything," a wry comment on the versatility of the Internet Protocol he helped invent, a protocol that underlies all Internet communication. Now a University of California Berkeley researcher has put Cerf's maxim to the test, running an IP network over a set of xylophones, played by human participants.

HP, F5 partner to speed delivery of cloud apps

HP this week unveiled several initiatives at Interop 2012 in Las Vegas to enhance the provisioning and performance of virtual applications over a network, including an alliance with application delivery controller leader F5.

IT consumerization: Special report

InfoWorld's tech pros walk you through all the steps in bringing smartphones, tablets, and other personal devices into the enterprise Insider (registration required)

BYOD: Digital Spotlight

Learn how to take control of and benefit from the bring-your-own-devices (BYOD) phenomenon -- without losing corporate data. This free, downloadable special edition describes what your BYOD policy should cover and outlines the risks you need to manage. Insider (registration required)

CIOs: Will You Be Relevant in 2017?

Columnist Adam Hartung says CIOs are in danger of becoming irrelevant if they focus on old technologies and practices. He advises that you forget what worked in the past and focus on technologies that will delight employees and customers in the future. Insider (registration required)

Strategic Guide to IT Talent Management

Download our ebook for advice from peers about how to recruit and nurture the types of IT professionals you'll need to gain a competitive advantage. Insider (registration required)

Canonical gears Linux upgrade to the cloud

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS will feature the Essex release of the OpenStack cloud fabric layer

Apple's IPv6 misstep is a sign of the times

Apple's controversial decision not to support IPv6 on Version 6.0 of AirPort Utility is the latest example of a broader problem plaguing the next-gen Internet Protocol: Many network vendors are lacking the same level of features and performance in products that support IPv6 as those that support IPv4, the original Internet Protocol.

Microsoft releases update for Deployment Toolkit utility

Microsoft has released a new version of a tool designed to let enterprise IT staffers automate and manage large-scale deployments of Microsoft OSes, desktop applications and server software.

From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerization, and the next wave of IT transformation

Businesses, schools, and governments desperately need tech-savvy managers who can innovate quickly, operationalize effectively, and keep their organizations competitive. IT is being replaced by "enterprise technology" -- technology that's no longer confined to offices and office workers, but is embedded throughout the enterprise.

BYOD: 'The inmates of the asylum have control'

Mobile devices are multiplying and -- sanctioned or unsanctioned -- finding their way onto corporate networks. For IT pros, the influx of personal mobile devices to the corporate network is raising security concerns, creating management challenges, and swamping the help desk with support calls.

In data centers, ease vs. risk in Net-based power management

Remote access to data center functions, including server and network operations, are now routine in many facilities. But users still worry about security.

Our future cyberdefenders set to face off

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) later this month will host the three-day National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for the seventh consecutive year.

Amazon releases staggering storage figures

Just how big is Amazon Web Service's (S3) Simple Storage Service? Well, it holds 905 billion objects, and it's growing by a billion per day, the company says.

IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds

Mark Adams, vice president of IT at HireRight, is living the dream -- the chance to completely rethink the infrastructure for a $300 million software-as-a-service employment screening service company. While the nucleus of the 1,600 employee company has been around for 30+ years, a three year acquisition spree resulted in data center sprawl, leaving the company with 10 facilities, including company owned and collocation and disaster-recovery sites, some of them overseas. Now HireRight is three quarters of the way through a consolidation effort with a heavy emphasis on cloud. Adams gave an update on the company's modernization progress to Network World Editor in Chief John Dix.

Oracle frees Ops Center for customers

Organizations running a lot of Oracle gear and software could now get some management assistance from a software program that Oracle has made free for customers.

Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative

As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, virtualization, unified networking and big data, according to Cisco and EMC, which have teamed to offer training targeted at tech's hottest data center disciplines.