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	Windows Server 8 to be storage-focused OS With the beta of Windows Server 8 to be released in the next few weeks, Microsoft executives said the next-generation OS is focused squarely on storage. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cognizant 20TH CENTURY SOLUTIONS BELONG THERE The old ways won't cut it anymore. So we're helping companies like yours rethink, reinvent and rewire the way they operate for a more collaborative, flexible and global approach. Because the way your business takes care of business today determines how far it will go tomorrow. The future is now. Let's put it to work. Cognizant See where we can take you> In this Issue AT&T vs. Verizon: LTE showdown in the Big Apple Teradata partners with Hortonworks on Hadoop Hard drive supply issues weigh on Dell's Q4 earnings With Google out, Twitter inks search deal with Yandex From CIO.com: Malware Network Threats Rising, How to Defend Yourself Ubuntu Android add-on designed to replace PCs Wi-Fi Passpoint standard could end hotspot sign-on hassles Intel tests foundry waters Oracle again waives extended support fees for E-Business Suite Silver Peak to offer free, downloadable versions of WAN optimization products UK gets its own version of English in Windows 8 Aruba simplifies IT management of employee-owned mobile devices Barbara Krasnoff: Hands-on: CareZone helps caretakers keep track Darragh Delaney: BitTorrent protocol primer, part 1: Infrastructure IT Blogwatch: MS Office on iPad soon (ignore Microsoft denials) RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: RIM Introducing BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Now all personal and corporate-owned BlackBerry® smartphone and BlackBerry® PlayBook™ devices can seamlessly access business data and applications on a single, secure management platform. Soon, Apple® iOS and Google® Android™ devices will be able to do the same. Learn how this new approach will end mobile chaos at blackberry.com/mobilefusion. AT&T vs. Verizon: LTE showdown in the Big Apple AT&T's fledgling 4G LTE service is scorchingly fast in some locations, excruciatingly slow in others. Read More Teradata partners with Hortonworks on Hadoop Growing enterprise interest in Big Data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors of traditional relational database management technologies and purveyors of Apache Hadoop. Read More Hard drive supply issues weigh on Dell's Q4 earnings Dell's fourth-quarter earnings were weighed down by weak consumer PC sales and by pricing and supply issues caused by the floods in Thailand, Dell said on Tuesday. Read More With Google out, Twitter inks search deal with Yandex Just months after Twitter and Google failed to reach an agreement for Realtime Search, the microblogging site has inked a deal with Russian search engine firm Yandex. Read More From CIO.com: Malware Network Threats Rising, How to Defend Yourself Last year saw the rise of malware networks, distributed network infrastructures that exploit popular places on the Internet to repeatedly launch a variety of dynamic malware attacks. Blue Coat Labs has issued six best practices that can help organizations defend themselves against the threat. Read More Ubuntu Android add-on designed to replace PCs Canonical has unveiled software that will give Android smartphones the ability to run full desktop computer sessions on computer monitors and television sets. Read More Wi-Fi Passpoint standard could end hotspot sign-on hassles The Wi-Fi Alliance will launch a program to simplify the use of Wi-Fi hotspots in July, making it easier for both users and mobile operators to get off strained cellular networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Securing the Cloud Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud. With F5 devices, you can keep your most precious assets safe, no matter where they live. Learn More! Intel tests foundry waters Intel is exploring whether it can branch out as a foundry by opening its chip manufacturing facilities to more third-party customers, the company said on Tuesday. Read More Oracle again waives extended support fees for E-Business Suite Oracle has given customers running version 12.0 of its E-Business Suite software a reprieve from extended support fees, which would have kicked in this month, increasing the maintenance payments they were already making. Read More Silver Peak to offer free, downloadable versions of WAN optimization products After watching customers continually download and install one of the vendor's free, limited products from the company website, Silver Peak CEO Rick Tinsley was interested to see how they would respond to the same access to its more advanced products. Read More UK gets its own version of English in Windows 8 Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system will have the U.K. version of English as a display language option, to address customers in that country, and some other countries like South Africa, India, Ireland, and Australia that use the version of the language. Read More Aruba simplifies IT management of employee-owned mobile devices New software from Aruba Networks lets IT groups secure and manage the influx of employee-owned devices to the corporate network. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: Hands-on: CareZone helps caretakers keep track There have been some efforts to offer services that handle health issues online; Google's recently shut-down Google Health service, for example. One of the latest to be introduced is CareZone, an online service that offers to help caretakers track all the information they need in order to be more effective -- and less crazed. Read More Darragh Delaney: BitTorrent protocol primer, part 1: Infrastructure For my next three blog posts I am going to take a close look at the BitTorrent protocol. Since its implementation in 2001, it has become one of the most common protocols for sharing files on the Internet. For this post I am going to take a look at the infrastructure that makes up a BitTorrent network. I will then follow up with a post on how it operates and for the final post in the series, I will look at how you can detect and monitor BitTorrent activity Read More IT Blogwatch: MS Office on iPad soon (ignore Microsoft denials) Here comes Microsoft Office for the iPad. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) appears to deny that it's close to release on the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) tablet, but in IT Blogwatch, bloggers conclude that all is not as it may seem. Read More
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