| | | INSIDER Alert | | Your guide to the top content posted this week for Insider members | | | | InfoWorld Disaster recovery is one of IT's most important responsibilities, and to thrive in today's data-centric environment, companies must renew their focus on disaster recovery and business continuity procedures and policies. Yet surprisingly few IT organizations take the time to construct the policies and infrastructure needed to protect the data they need to survive. | | Computerworld The concept of creating an IT infrastructure that supports and integrates social, mobile, analytics and cloud is gaining ground, and some industry experts and IT executives are convinced that the next generation of IT will revolve around SMAC components as the key foundational technologies. "We see a lot companies focusing on one or more of these trends. But it's when they converge that it becomes really interesting," says Ed Anderson, research vice president at Gartner. "It's like an industrial revolution of sorts, where you're achieving the digital critical mass of some key foundational elements," Anderson says. "We have this platform in cloud services that presents us with unlimited capacity of computational resources. With mobile we have this unprecedented ability to put connectivity into the hands of individuals and devices. Analytics gives us specific insights we never had before, and social media makes it all personal."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | Network World If Red Hat’s specialization is enterprise application, development and hosting, and Ubuntu’s is anything that moves, then Linux Mint is carving only one niche: desktop dominance.Linux Mint 17 continues in a line of Linux desktop-focused releases, and in testing we found it’s become more mature. Like the other two Linux distributions we recently tested, Linux Mint is supported for a longer term — five years from April 2014. Linux Mint gives you a choice of user interfaces, including Gnome-branch Cinnamon, its half-brother Mate, or the lightweight Xfce version. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | Computerworld Register to download the Computerworld Digital Magazine!In the September 2014 issue:How Analytics Empowers Business Computerworld’s 2014 Data+ Editors’ Choice Awards for Analytics recognize 20 organizations reaping business benefits through big data initiatives. The honorees are mining data to identify new sales opportunities, deliver vital services, more accurately predict costs and boost the bottom line.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | InfoWorld JavaScript has taken over the Web, and it's creeping onto mobile apps and back-end services too. Programmers would be well-advised to get in on the JavaScript wave, and with today's surplus of editors and IDEs, they have no excuse to pass up the opportunity. READ MORE | | Computerworld There's EMC and then there's EMC. Confused? Well, there's EMC, the vaunted storage and converged infrastructure company. But then there's EMC, the capstone of a corporate federation -- including VMware and big-data startup Pivotal -- that has positioned itself quite nicely to capitalize on the critical trends reshaping corporate IT. (Think mobile, cloud, big data, etc.) This summer, EMC's federation model came under fire from activist investors who claim the company would be better served by bringing assets like VMware in-house. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, EMC's Joe Tucci spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the federation model's value for IT leaders and how the partners -- including security provider RSA -- coordinate strategies to deliver innovation and choice. He also debunks what he views as nonsense being spewed by newcomers to the storage market and talks about how EMC is empowering customers to build private/hybrid clouds that stand up to the best the public cloud has to offer. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | | |
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