Notebooks Still the Best Productivity Choice

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 April 06, 2012 Notebooks Remain Best Business Productivity Choice, for Now Looking to ditch your notebook in favor of a tablet or even a smartphone? The late Steve Jobs famously spoke of a "post-PC" era when unveiling the iPad 2 early last year. Yet in spite of the tablets and smartphones that many of us own, reaching for our notebook is probably still a regular occurrence for most of us. Read more > Get the SMB Tech RSS Feed   Consolidating Data Warehousing on a Private Cloud This TDWI checklist report makes a case for private database clouds, especially as a platform for consolidated BI and DW applications. Download now > Blogs Paul Mah SMB Tech Ten Steps to Safeguard Your Small Business Data Don Tennant From Under the Rug Who Will Infosys Throw Under the Bus in Visa Fraud Case? Susan Hall Charting Your IT Career Banishing 'Experience-Needed' Syndrome Two-Factor Authentication: It's All About Trust   Right now, someone's logging into your network and accessing proprietary information. Do you know who it is? This technical brief explains why two-factor authentication is superior to using passwords only. Read it now > 'Consumerization Strategy Roadmap' Tool Helps You Plot Your Course Consumerization of IT is rampant, whether CIOs or CISOs like it or not. While many security and other issues exist, employee-owned smartphones, tablets and laptops provide a high level of convenience and flexibility. BYOD: Powerful Enabler or Impending Catastrophe? We are in the midst of a "technological empowerment movement" sweeping across workplaces worldwide. The net result is that more than 40 percent of employees feel comfortable and capable making their own technology decisions for work. Security Staffing Climbed Sharply in 2011 Although the numbers vary considerably by industry, information security staff now make up roughly one out of every 200 employees. Featured White Papers Data Integration: Top 10 Reasons You Should Be Using Open Source This white paper presents the top 10 reasons why customers are choosing open source data integration solutions — with proof points provided from customer case studies. •  Optimizing Offsite Disaster Recovery with Virtual WAN Op, a Case Study •  Tape Fallacies Exposed — The Future of Tape Is Still Bright •  6 Steps to Competitive Dominance Where the IT Rubber Meets the Road "If we were talking the human body, layoffs would be the most invasive kind of surgery, the kind that has a high probability of killing the patient. This is the reason you do them fast and deep." Excerpt from Rob Enderle Unfiltered Opinion Latest White Papers Prepare Yourself: How to Overcome Objections to Data Governance The Trend Toward Database Outsourcing Virtualization Changes Everything: Enter the vWOC An Unhappy Compromise: Protection, Performance, or Management? This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. 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 •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise