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10 SaaS companies to watch

Three things you need to know about Apple iCloud | After hack, RSA offers to replace SecureID tokens

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10 SaaS companies to watch
These days, companies are applying the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model to just about everything, from core business functions, including IT, to industry-specific processes. This list, compiled with the help of SaaS trend watchers and users, provides a representative look at what types of software you'll find offered in the cloud. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel

Data Protection Strategy for SMB's with Remote Offices
This white paper discusses how small and midsize businesses can effectively address their data protection challenges, implementing solutions that help store and protect their business-critical data as they cut costs and improve efficiency and reliability. Read now!

WHITE PAPER: Avaya

Avaya Virtual Services Platform 9000
A high performance modular routing switch for core deployments. Core network infrastructure needs to be able to handle increased load without packet loss, while providing quick recovery times in case of a component failure. Learn More

Three things you need to know about Apple iCloud
With the unveiling of its iCloud service today, Apple is hoping you'll like the new MobileMe. Read More

After hack, RSA offers to replace SecureID tokens
In an acknowledgement of the severity of its recent computer compromise, RSA Security said Monday that it will replace SecureID tokens for any customer that asks. Read More

Hackers exploit Flash bug in new attacks against Gmail users
Adobe today confirmed that the Flash Player bug it patched Sunday is being used to steal login credentials of Google's Gmail users. Read More

Apple iOS 5 cuts iPhone, iPad loose from computers, embraces the cloud
Apple outlined the changes that iOS 5, due for release this fall, will bring to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. The devices are being cut free from computers and tied more closely into new cloud services. Read More


WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

The Changing Role of IT
This white paper analyzes research conducted by IDG Research Services about the changing role of IT: what's driving the change, what skill-sets will be more valued and what should forward-looking IT executives consider as IT shifts increasingly towards an IT supply chain model. Learn More

Video: Steve Jobs previews Apple's iCloud
Apple CEO Steve Jobs returned to the keynote stage on Monday to launch Apple's upcoming and anticipated iCloud service. iCloud will let users store documents, calendars, contacts, photos and music online and distribute them to other devices. Read More

'Lion' brings iPad gestures to Mac OS for only $30
Apple today previewed Lion, the next major version of Mac OS X, which will feature iPad-like multi-touch gestures and be sold for just $29.99 on the Mac App Store. Read More

Ending the Microprocessor Wars: The Cloud Floats In
Apple's announcement of iCloud today reinforces the trend towards infocentricity that I first noted many years ago. And it also shifts the focus away from that core of the computer industry, the microprocessor. Is the computer industry as we know it dead? Yes, it is. Read More

Microsoft Research virtualizes idle desktops to save power
Finding that people do not use "stand-by" and "hibernate" when going away from their PCs, for fear of disrupting running network connections and background computations, Microsoft Research India has developed power-saving technology that virtualizes enterprise desktops to a backend server before putting the desktops to sleep. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

Discover the Mishaps of Digital Channels
Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels - Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other smart touches - has often occurred in a piecemeal way. Read More

Internet architect Vint Cerf to young people: science and tech careers can be rewarding
Vint Cerf is one of the most decorated people in the technology field, and with good reason: He co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and was one of the Internet's original architects. Here are Cerf's thoughts on such industry recognitions and related topics. Read More

Cell phones and Cancer: 8 Precautions Worth Taking
The WHO's recent report that cell phones are possibly carcinogenic is not definitive data and has its skeptics, but Bill Snyder of CIO.com writes that we all should still take precautions on the chance that cell phones could be damaging our health. Read More

NASA plan takes the Internet into space and beyond
NASA this week said it was looking to build an ambitious Internet-like network that will support solar system-wide communication and navigation services. Read More

Big questions about cyberwar
The Pentagon is expected to announce a cyberstrategy this month that concludes a cyberattack on the U.S. can be an act of war, and while the damage from such an assault may warrant that position, hopefully this just amounts to loud barking given the perils involved. Read More



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GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
Up for grabs from the Subnets: Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of IPv6 for Enterprise Networks books. Microsoft Subnet: A set of classes for a Microsoft Cert from Webucator and Polycom videoconferencing system. Enter here.

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4G Faceoff: ThunderBolt vs. Galaxy
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