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	Why Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy is puzzling the pundits Microsoft's mobile chief Andy Lees turned a few heads this week by declaring that "we view a tablet as a sort of PC." Lees went on to say that a tablet should do "all of the things you would expect from a PC."  Pundits are already questioning Microsoft's logic, and with good reason. Read More WHITE PAPER: MSDI Why Third Party Maintenance is Right for You If you're looking to reduce costs and avoid hidden fees with a custom contract that allows you to pay for only what you need, third party maintenance may be the best option for you. Read now In this Issue Would analytics calm social network privacy fears? Fave raves: 22 IT pros name their favorite products IBM bequeaths Symphony code to Apache The Phone Hacking Scandal: The Answer is in Infrastructure US hails progress with Russia on cybersecurity cooperation Building the Borg: US intelligence agency wants to know how your overtaxed brain works F5 rolls out new file virtualization appliances U.S. banks changing out core systems for real-time processing Cloud CIO: Are You Making Your Data Centers Cloud-Friendly? WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Guide to Workforce Continuity Through Virtualization Examine this Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Preparedness Checklist to see how your organization measures up in planning, testing and review. Learn more. Would analytics calm social network privacy fears? With the unveiling of its Google+ social network, Google is again bringing to the spotlight the recurring question of whether social network privacy settings are too complex, confusing many users and causing them to share posts with more people than intended. Read More Fave raves: 22 IT pros name their favorite products When we asked IT pros about their favorite enterprise tech products, their picks included all kinds of hardware and software. The common thread? Gear that saves time or money, increases productivity or tightens security. Read More IBM bequeaths Symphony code to Apache Hoping to further sharpen OpenOffice's competitive viability against Microsoft Office, IBM is donating the code of its Symphony open source office suite to the nonprofit Apache Software Foundation. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remote Support for PCs, Macs, Tablets and Smartphones Provide instant, on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue. Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs and smartphones anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try Rescue free, today. The Phone Hacking Scandal: The Answer is in Infrastructure News regarding the hacking of handsets in the UK is everywhere, and there are simple countermeasures that users can take to prevent problems in this area. The real answer, though, is in needed changes to infrastructure, and questions abound as to why so many vulnerabilities exist in the first place. Read More US hails progress with Russia on cybersecurity cooperation Russia and the U.S. are working to reduce chances for a cybersecurity incident that could damage the countries' relationship, according to the top cybersecurity adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama. Read More Building the Borg: US intelligence agency wants to know how your overtaxed brain works This one sounds like it comes right out of a science-fiction writer's nightmare. A US intelligence agency wants to develop applications based on the way the human brain makes sense of large amounts of haphazard, partial information. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Case Study – Petrobas Download the case study to learn how Riverbed deployed Steelhead® appliances to reduce Petrobras' backup window from 34 hours to four hours, improve application performance for remote workers to LAN-like speeds, and more. Read now! F5 rolls out new file virtualization appliances F5 Networks this week announced new file virtualization appliances for small and mid-sized businesses. Like F5's other appliances, the ARX1500 and ARX2500 are aimed at virtualizing, managing and migrating data for businesses of all sizes who are suffering from growing amounts of file data. Read More U.S. banks changing out core systems for real-time processing In an effort to bring real-time applications to customers -- and boost their bottom lines -- banks are changing our their core systems, many for the first time in a decade. Read More Cloud CIO: Are You Making Your Data Centers Cloud-Friendly? Data center construction is growing ever more complex and expensive as data center facilities expand to meet enterprises' seemingly limitless computing needs. Read More
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