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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 July 23, 2012 Ten Steps to Improve Productivity As in many companies today, your organization might be lean of staff. Employees often have to juggle between multiple roles or work longer hours to keep things running smoothly. Though not mentioned often, improving personal productivity can go a long way toward getting you out of the office on time and achieving a better work-life balance. We've compiled these top 10 tips from our IT Business Edge bloggers to help you increase your productivity and reduce your stress. Read more > Get the Charting Your IT Career 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 Loraine Lawson Integration News Round-up: Revisiting Portals and Geographic Data Carl Weinschenk Data and Telecom The iPad Makes Steady Progress in the Business Sector Arthur Cole Infrastructure In Search of Balance in Virtual Environments Energy Efficiency for the IT Organization   Read this white paper to learn how many businesses are reducing their environmental impact by pursuing improved data center design, as well as using virtualized and cloud IT environments. Learn more now > Eight Big-Name Options for Big Data In this slideshow, Loraine Lawson is focusing on the big technology vendors who either are taking a unique approach or are using partnerships to break into the Big Data market. The Road to PaaS: Understanding Your Post-IaaS Options IaaS is just the first step on the journey to the full realization of cloud's potential. That potential lies in feature-rich business services and complete application stacks, which are provisioned and scaled dynamically -- just like the infrastructure enabled by IaaS. Download: Cloud Computing Reference Architecture Get a complete overview of the actors and their roles and the necessary architectural components for managing and providing cloud services. Featured White Papers IT Service Automation: Addressing the Core of IT's Challenges This research report summarizes a 2010 Forrester survey on IT service automation and outlines a model service automation approach. •  The Application Performance Almanac — A Week-by-Week Guide •  The Impact of Server Type on Your Data Center: Power, Heat, & More •  Data Deduplication for Dummies "...an event like the Olympics is prime time for bad guys who use social engineering to spread malware. And 40 percent of your employee base aren't going to think twice about putting your network at risk... " Excerpt from Sue Marquette Poremba Data Security Latest White Papers Bring Enterprise-class VMware Protection to Small and Midsized Businesses Today's Web Threats: Five Tips to Reduce the Risk Data Center Consolidation: A TCO Analysis of Linux Server Strategy TCO Comparison Shows Tape Is Still Your Best Backup Bet 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