The Legacy of Steve Jobs

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Daily Edge October 07, 2011 The Legacy of Steve Jobs While we have often focused on Steve Jobs' public roles and his capability to present products as highlighted in "The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs" — a book Rob Enderle thinks every aspiring or existing CEO should read — we forget that he also played the role of virtual customer. You can see the difference in market performance between products he "got," like the iPod, and products he didn't, like AppleTV (Steve wasn't a fan of TV). Read more > Get the Infrastructure RSS Feed   The Business Impact of the iCloud Ecosystem Learn about what the numerous innovations, new players, and partnerships in the evolving Cloud space can do for your business. Download Now > Blogs Arthur Cole Infrastructure Optimizing the Cloud for Application Delivery Rob Enderle Unfiltered Opinion 'Here's to the Crazy Ones': Remembering Steve Jobs and Walt Disney Ann All Business of Tech Survey Sees IT Spending Rebound Simplifying the Software Portfolio — It Starts with the DB   Discover how you can simplify your software portfolio and reduce ongoing integration and maintenance costs. Download now > Stress the Importance of IT with These Report Templates Juggling the wide range of projects your team has under way is a monumental task on its own terms. Making sure everybody else in the company knows how great your guys are at juggling all those tasks is a neat trick, in its own right. Status reports tend to focus on single projects; presenting the full scope of what IT is up to, in a format that's easy for other managers to digest, is a critical step in communicating the value IT brings to the company Download: Personal Training Scorecard Personal development is a lot like an IT project — you have to identify tasks and goals in advance if you expect to see success. Use this tool to identify skills and capabilities you need to work on to reach your objectives. A Sense of History Vital to a Mobile Security Strategy It is easy enough to lump the evolution of desktop and mobile security into one basket. The reality is, however, that the differences between the two far outweigh the similarities. This isn't a case of IT trivial pursuit. There is at least one important reason to consider this as desktop security concerns ebb and smartphone worries grow — crackers are putting the lessons learned on the desktop to work in the mobile world. Latest White Papers Is Your Talent Management Strategy Creating Value? Rolling Your Email into the Cloud: Easy Migration Tips Cloud First IT: The Rise of the Cloud Services Network Build or Buy: Six Data Center Key Factors to Consider Featured White Papers Stop Taking the Heat Learn how to strike a better balance by making sure you're saving all the data you may need — and none that you won't. •  Application Performance Almanac: 52 Weeks of APM Knowledge •  Simplify Software-as-a-Service SaaS) Integration •  Get a Grip on Hosting Costs for Your High Volume Website "Jobs took Apple from toy computers to executive essentials, and managed to make Apple products a force that IT had to reckon with and, yes, integrate. That in and of itself is impressive enough." Excerpt from Loraine Lawson Integration Premium Tools Cloud Computing Foundation Certification Kit Cloud computing is a topic you need to be well versed at iif you want your IT management career to advance. This downloadable resource will step you through the services available, deployment models and security risks associated with Cloud Computing. Use this 185 page eBook and access to a unique eLearning experience to grow your career. •  The Complete IT Policy Kit •  The Strategic IT Planning Bundle •  The ITIL V3 Foundation Certification Kit IT Marketplace This e-mail is sent by: NarrowCast Group, LLC, 10400 Linn Station Road, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40223 Copyright ©2003-2011 NarrowCast Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  CTO Edge Update •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise