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	Is Microsoft BUILD'ing Anxiety Among Developers? Andy Patrizio: So many controversies in life are not about the actual offense, but how it's handled. Microsoft and its somewhat clumsy handling of the upcoming changes to Windows 8 has left developers twisting in the wind. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Dell SecureWorks – Intrusion Prevention Service with iSensor With new security threats emerging every day, few organizations have the resources and expertise to protect themselves. The Dell SecureWorks Intrustion Prevention Service with iSensor combines the iSensor Intrusion Prevention appliance with 24x7 monitoring and administration by Dell SecureWorks certified security experts. Learn more. In this Issue Azure review: Looks juicy but not yet fully cooked Half the world's data is stored in hard drives Microsoft patent may ruin Skype, may make VoIP spy and pry easy for gov't Kinect for Your PC: The end of the Mouse, Finally? Move over Microsoft, now Google gets to be investigated A (small) price cut for Windows Azure Cyberthugs: FBI on victorious roll Microsoft confirms BPOS cloud outage WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Brute Force Protection for Web Applications Both Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Brute Force Attacks have existed for many years, and many network devices tout the ability to withstand them. However, most of today's DoS attacks target layer 7 (L7) by overwhelming applications with seemingly valid requests and Brute Force programs can send more than one million attempts per second. Learn More! Azure review: Looks juicy but not yet fully cooked Tom Henderson: Our review of Windows Azure was an intense experience. We'd waited and waited, and waited to review Azure after it was announced. We were trying to pin what Azure was. We eventually decided that cloud and Azure were really different things. Read More Half the world's data is stored in hard drives Julie Bort: The Journal of Science this year completed a study of 20-years of data storage. They found that, by 2007, the world had squirreled away 295 exabytes of data ... which works out to 295 billion gigabytes. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Network Configuration & Change Management for Dummies Read this and learn the NCCM "basics," key challenges associated with NCCM, the IT and business benefits of automating NCCM, and the top 10 reasons why automated NCCM creates value, reduces business risk, and can help ensure business goals are met. Read now Microsoft patent may ruin Skype, may make VoIP spy and pry easy for gov't Ms. Smith: Are you one of the millions of people who depend upon Skype? Remember when Microsoft bought Skype? Did you wonder just how long it would be before Skype was ruined with a backdoor for easy-access eavesdropping? Read More Kinect for Your PC: The end of the Mouse, Finally? Andy Patrizio: If you've ever struggled with carpal tunnel syndrome, you probably wish for an alternative to the accursed rodent. The answer may be coming from the gaming world and PC-enabled Kinect. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer FREE 30-day trialware Bring your largest and most mission-critical server operations to a new level of efficiency and reliability. Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer provides uncompromising peak performance continuously and without requiring downtime or further management. Learn more. Move over Microsoft, now Google gets to be investigated Kerrie Meyler: Google was notified June 23 that federal regulators have begun an antitrust investigation into its business practices. The inquiry is expected to focus primarily on whether Google abuses its dominance of Internet search to extend its influences into other (lucrative) online markets. Read More A (small) price cut for Windows Azure Jon Brodkin: Microsoft is trumpeting a price cut for Windows Azure to the low low price of ... free for all customers starting July 1. Read More Cyberthugs: FBI on victorious roll Ms. Smith: Like some kind of modern-day cyber cowboys, the feds have come out with cyberguns blazing, blowing away bad guys in cyberspace. Read More Microsoft confirms BPOS cloud outage Julie Bort: User complaints began rolling in today that Microsoft's cloud, BPOS, was down, with users unable to sign in to the service. Plus, as part of the outage, the BPOS Health Dashboard was also down, leaving IT administrators completely in the dark. Read More
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