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	INSIDER 5 tricks to improve poor TCP performance  If your system back-up is to a remote site that is a considerable distance away, you might be using only a small percentage of the bandwidth that you’re paying for. Read More  WHITE PAPER: BMC Software An Insightful Approach to Optimize Mainframe MLC Spend  This paper, “An Insightful Approach to Optimizing Mainframe MLC Costs,” discusses how you can penetrate the complexity of IBM mainframe MLC products and the MLC price model to gain insight into the MLC cost drivers and leverage that insight to optimize MLC spend. Learn More In this Issue IBM puts software and cloud at the center of storage Competition, new rules to spur West African electronic financial services Office integrates more cloud storage services, starting with iCloud and Box Experimental networking tech beams data across the room with light The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, February 17 Payments startup iZettle makes chip & PIN card reader available for free Infosys to acquire startup Panaya to automate customer tasks WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs  This paper discusses five levers you can use to lower your mainframe MLC costs by up to 20 percent or more. Explore best practices and real-world examples of dramatic savings through a mainframe MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. Learn More IBM puts software and cloud at the center of storage  The IBM Spectrum Storage strategy embraces multiple vendors and clouds Read More  Competition, new rules to spur West African electronic financial services  Mobile money services have grown, but face hurdles among rural poor, experts say Read More  Office integrates more cloud storage services, starting with iCloud and Box  Microsoft opens Office to any cloud storage service that wants in, though the execution's half-baked. Read More  WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Best Practices Guide to Manage Mainframe Software Charges  Monthly license charges (MLC) are rising by 7% or more each year, and account for 30% of total mainframe costs. Yet managing MLC costs is an inexact science. This best practice guide provides a step-by-step process to reduce mainframe MLC costs up to 20% without compromising business critical services. Learn More Experimental networking tech beams data across the room with light  Oxford University researchers develop a way to transmit data across a room at 100-gigabit speeds using a beam of light. The Flash would be impressed. Read More  The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, February 17  Spy group has embedded tools in foreign networks ... Sony selling its SmartEyeglasses ... Infosys will automate more jobsRead More  Payments startup iZettle makes chip & PIN card reader available for free  The free reader could entice more small European merchants to start accepting card payments Read More  Infosys to acquire startup Panaya to automate customer tasks  The company hopes to get more cost-efficient in the delivery of its services by using automation Read More
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