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The data breach quiz
Find out how RSA, Sony, Citigroup, Anonymous and the U.S. Senate fit into this watershed year for data hacks. Read More


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NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition
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WHITE PAPER: Dell

Mobile Technology: The Productivity Edge
IT must devise a workable balance by ensuring security of mobile data without squashing worker productivity. This Mobility KnowledgeVault will walk you through four key factors to build a workable plan and highlights real-world examples of businesses that are succeeding at fulfilling the productivity promise of mobility. View now

Gartner: New security demands arising for virtualization, cloud computing
The rush toward virtualization of internal enterprise computing resources and cloud computing can have many advantages, such as server consolidation, but it's largely outracing traditional security and identity management practices. Read More

Gartner: How to get a handle on mobile device management
It was only a few years ago that mobile device management was as simple as using Research in Motion's BlackBerry Enterprise Server as the hub for all your devices. Read More

Cisco upgrades, broadens Quad
Cisco's Quad enterprise collaboration platform, which combines Web-based Facebook -like update posts, instant messaging, document sharing, video communication, microblogging and communities, will now be offered as a hosted and managed service. Cisco made this announcement earlier this week at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. Read More


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Seven Standards of Cloud Computing Service Delivery
This paper outlines best practices for selecting cloud-computing solutions. Learn more!

Cisco's Cius tablet to ship next month
After delays, Cisco's Cius tablet will start shipping in volume next month, and the device will be one of the first available running Intel's latest Atom chip code-named Moorestown. Read More

Microsoft exploits uproar over Firefox 4's retirement to beat IE drum
Addressing the IT furor over Mozilla's plan to pull support for Firefox 4, Microsoft issued an open letter affirming its commitment to support the current Internet Explorer edition through 2020. Read More

Coming with 3D: Smartphones from Sprint, AT&T
Glasses-free 3D smartphones are about to invade the U.S., with Sprint selling the HTC Evo 3D on Friday and AT&T confirming that sales of the LG Thrill 4G will begin sometime later this summer. Read More


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Deal with Jitter-Sensitive Wi-Fi Traffic
This Podcast will walk you through techniques to ensure a more resilient architecture with tips to take advantage of all the prioritization mechanisms available, including WMM, and have an end-to-end mechanism to prioritize traffic from wired to wireless. Learn more!

AT&T iPad hacker pleads guilty
A 26-year-old man who last year helped hackers publish personal information belonging to about 120,000 iPad users pleaded guilty to fraud and hacking charges in a New Jersey court Thursday. Read More

Red Hat preps real-time messaging stack for the cloud
Red Hat's MRG includes support for 10G Ethernet and additional diagnostic and scheduling tools. Read More

Four companies rethink databases for the cloud
Several companies are developing new database technologies to solve what they see as the shortcomings of traditional, relational database management systems in a cloud environment. Four of them described the approaches they're taking during a panel at the GigaOm Structure conference on Thursday. Read More

Cloud CIO: In Defense of Corporate IT
The threat that cloud computing poses to CIOs and IT professionals' careers does not stem from cloud computing rendering corporate IT departments irrelevant. Rather, it comes from CIOs' and IT professionals' failure to face the revolution that cloud computing brings and to assume much more important positions inside their firms. Read More



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