InfoWorld's special report on IT consumerization

	Scrambls puts control of social media back in the hands of users | VMware drives shift to personal clouds with Project Octopus
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	Download InfoWorld's special report on IT consumerization By now, IT has seen a stream of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and more enter the business. There's no stopping the consumerization trend, but IT can ease the transition and its own workload. In InfoWorld's special report on the consumerization of IT, tech pros walk you through all the steps in bringing smartphones, tablets, and other personal devices into the enterprise. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remotely manage with LogMeIn Central Central's web-based management console lets you deploy software, proactively monitor and automate tasks. You can even apply all Windows Updates at the same time to keep systems up-to-date and secure. Try it free for 30 days. In this Issue Scrambls puts control of social media back in the hands of users VMware drives shift to personal clouds with Project Octopus Jive broadens reach of its social-business platform Physicist says Moore's Law is 'collapsing' Google makes BigQuery available for big data needs RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2012 IT Roadmap Returns to Dallas All new conference program designed to deliver more value: more peer session, more analysts, more sessions. Still no cost to you. Hear the latest strategies for cloud, mobile & consumerization, VoIP, network management and more. Visit http://www.itroadmap.net/2012Dallas/nlp to learn more. Scrambls puts control of social media back in the hands of users Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites may not be happy if a new service that launched in beta Wednesday takes off. The service, scrambls, may be misspelled and lack a proper capital letter, but it aims to put the control of social-media posts back in the hands of users. Using scrambls, which is an add-on to major browsers, users can encrypt submissions to Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks, giving them fine-grained control over the scrambled text. Read More VMware drives shift to personal clouds with Project Octopus Advances in virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile technology have created a perfect storm for a new era in end-user computing, one in which users can revel in their own personal cloud, connecting to all their apps and data, anyplace and anytime from any device, be it a Wyse thin client at work, a company-issued Android phone on the road, a personal iPad at the airport, or a Windows XP machine at home. Read More Jive broadens reach of its social-business platform There is an emerging breed of social business offerings that give users a place to discuss sales opportunities, debate marketing strategies, plan companywide technology rollouts, and actively collaborate on documents through any number of apps and services. In an effort to strengthen its position in the social business space against rivals such as Yammer, Jive today announced a significant upgrade to its collaboration platform, including several new features that extend the platform's reach to and integration with internal and third-party websites and services. Read More Physicist says Moore's Law is 'collapsing' A well-known theoretical physicist has taken direct aim at a key theory in the computer industry, saying Moore's Law is collapsing. Physicist Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, said in a videotaped interview on BigThink.com (watch video below) that time is running out on the 47-year-old law. And that could affect the evolution of the computer processor. Read More Google makes BigQuery available for big data needs BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analyzing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period of limited-availability testing, Google said on Tuesday. Read More
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