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	Behind the $40 Windows 8 upgrade While a $40 price tag doesn't exactly qualify as giving Windows away, it's putting a big crimp in one of the main arguments for avoiding Windows 8. Read More WHITE PAPER: ITinvolve The Reasons CMDBs Don't Work There is no shortage of reasons why CMDB initiatives fail. A lack of trust in the data, the time consuming nature of these projects, and the inability of end users to see their value are frequently cited. Learn More! In this Issue 10 worst tech screwups of 2012 (so far) No excuse: Storms should not take down your cloud After I/O: Google tries to be Sony, hobbles Android's business case How to Win at the IT Outsourcing Negotiating Table RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Consolidate All of Your Event Logs in One Place for FREE! Tired of having to log on to each Windows system to see event logs? Looking for a centralized view? Organize all of your event logs from all of your Windows systems in one location with Event Log Consolidator. View, consolidate, and dismiss event logs and correlate issues among multiple Windows systems quickly and easily from one central location! Download the free Event Log Consolidator tool today! 10 worst tech screwups of 2012 (so far) As we celebrate the end of the first half of the last year of our lifetimes (damn those Mayans and their apocalyptic predictions), it's a good time to reflect on the more notable miscues of 2012 -- because we might not get this chance again. Read More No excuse: Storms should not take down your cloud The people at any cloud provider need to drill fail-over scenarios and make sure the right mechanisms are in place for power loss and other normal consequences of weather, wherever they are located. The loss of power should never interrupt service. Read More After I/O: Google tries to be Sony, hobbles Android's business case Say goodbye to Android as a business powerhouse: Google's going to make a run on the leadership in consumer electronics. Read More How to Win at the IT Outsourcing Negotiating Table If CIOs want to get the most from IT outsourcing deals, they need to treat negotiation as an organizational business process--with training, tools, and processes--rather than an IT purchasing arrangement. Read More
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