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• Forrester outlines 5 rising, 5 declining security technologies

  Security technologies rise and fall in popularity, and Forrester Research in its TechRadar report puts its bets on five it thinks are in a growth mode and five it thinks are dying away.

• Tablets Will Be Preferred Devices by 2016

  Tablets will become most users' main computing devices within the next four years, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett has predicted.

• Tablets will be most users' main computing device, Forrester says

  Tablets will become most users' primary computing device within the next four years, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett believes.

• What to consider before signing up for Google Drive

  Just as with an Apple product launch, Google has had to do next to nothing to create buzz around its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage service. The latest: Google Drive will launch next week.

• Microsoft – carefully – edges closer to the open-source community

  Despite a rocky historical relationship with the open-source community, Microsoft's recent decision to create a specialised Open Technologies spinoff is the latest phase of its recent rapprochement with the open world - as well as a canny defensive measure.

• Emerging software tools help boost IT spending projections

  Overall U.S. tech spending is forecast to grow by 7.1% this year and then by 7.4% in 2012, according to Forrester Research.

• Dell's acquisition a Wyse one, analysts say

  Dell's announcement on Monday that it had finalized an agreement to acquire thin client maker Wyse allows the company to fill a portfolio gap that had been exploited by competitors such as HP, according to industry experts.

• Who Holds the Keys?

  Encryption can make up for a litany of security snafus -- from a bad firewall to an unrelenting hacker to a lost laptop. Once data is encrypted, criminals can't use or sell it. Plus, if encrypted data goes missing, companies are protected from disclosure requirements in most states. No wonder 38% of companies surveyed by Forrester Research have already adopted full-disk encryption technology. But data protection doesn't stop there. Encryption keys and digital rights also must be well orchestrated and secured, or else encryption protection goes out the window.

• Intel's Romley products could put crimp in competition

  The upcoming launch of products powered by Intel's new Romley platform could make waves in the server sector, according to experts.

• Look Before You Leap Into Hadoop

  Now that Apache.org has listed more than 150 enterprises as Hadoop users -- including JPMorgan Chase, IBM, Google, Booz Allen Hamilton and the New York Times -- it seems likely that the big data management system could soon become all the rage among corporate IT executives.

• Chief Mobility Officer: The Next Big IT Job?

  The idea of having a chief mobility officer (CMO) isn't new in the enterprise world. But as companies now scramble to establish mobile strategies, a CMO could be one key to success, according to a new Forrester Research report.

• Chief Mobile Officer: A job title now timely?

  The idea of creating a Chief Mobile Officer (CMO) inside corporations isn't a new one. But as companies scramble these days to establish corporate mobile strategies, having a CMO could be a key to success, according to a new Forrester Research report.

• Opinion: Apple will never unseat Microsoft in the enterprise

  Apple is riding high these days, not just in the consumer market with the iPhone and iPad, but increasingly in the corporate market as well. Some people envision the day when Apple will challenge Microsoft in the enterprise. That will never happen.

• Riverbed upgrades 'edge virtual server infrastructure'

  Riverbed today announced the release of updates to its Steelhead network performance products as well as its Granite product line, which is based on the edge virtual server infrastructure approach that Riverbed is pushing. Whereas the former aims to boost network performance for the customers that are concerned about application delivery, the latter may attract more attention from the infrastructure management industry.

• Apple breaks Microsoft's 'lock' on enterprise workers, argues analyst

  The iPhone may have opened the door for Apple in the enterprise, but it was the one-two punch of the iPad and revamped MacBook Air in 2010 that really did the trick, an analyst said today.