Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from across the web about the transformations taking place in IT. Here are some great articles they selected from 7/19/2013 that are worth taking a look at.
VMware Sells Zimbra Amid Shift in Strategy - By Willliam Alden | The New York Times
Forrester is now projecting that 2013 global technology spending growth will be 2.3 percent to $2.07 trillion and 5.4 percent in 2014 - By Larry Dignan | ZDNet
Enterprise Warming to Converged Infrastructure - By Aurthur Cole | IT Business Edge
Puppet Labs acquires Chris Horn’s Cloudsmith - By John Kennedy | Silicon Republic
Extreme Makes Converged Solution Plays With Lenovo, EMC - By Jeffery Burt | eWeek
Can Big Data Make Government Cheaper? - By Robin Harris | ZDNet
Gartner says Global 2000 Enterprises look to IT Operations Analytics - By Graham Gillen | Sys-Con
Industry Faces Perception Gap with Data Center, Cloud - By Ellyne Phneah
Three Reasons Why Life Cycle Management Matters More with Big Data - By Loraine Lawson | IT Business Edge
In Case You Missed it: Treating Your Data Center Like a Single Organism [Webinar Recap] - By Robyn Weisman
Dear CIO: Are You Tackling the Top 10 Strategic Issues for 2013? - By Bob Evans | Forbes
Marine Corps Agrees to Keep Information Technology Center in Kansas City - By Kevin Collison and Mark Davis | The Kansas City Star
How Efficient Can Storage Be? - By Robin Harris | ZDNet
Malicious QR Code Intercepts Google Glass Data - By Stan Schroeder | Mashable
Doing the Vatican Racks: Yes, the Vatican Uses Datacenters - By David Chernicoff
Why Linux is the Powerhouse for Big Data - By Adrian Bridgewater | Computer Weekly