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	Google to shut down Slide social apps Apparently the age of "superpoking" social network friends and throwing sheep at them is coming to a close. Read More WHITE PAPER: Schooner Information Technology The Short Guide to MySQL High-Availability Options The Short Guide to MySQL High-Availability Options: An analysis of today's MySQL high-availability challenges and what asynchronous, semi-synchronous and fully synchronous replication offer toward reducing downtime, achieving full data consistency, automating failover, and simplifying administration. Read now! In this Issue Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams Software tracking could turn Chinese piracy into revenue Close encounters with Steve Jobs Distracted to death (Jennifer Aniston naked) Potential pitfalls in Apple CEO transition, say experts New AMD CEO faces challenges in mobile VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres Silver Peak unveils free WAN acceleration product Google+ lets users 'ignore' those annoying people WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Arrival of Cloud Thinking Much is being made of the "the cloud." The money it will save. The agility it will bring to computing. What is less obvious is how IT departments are actively employing cloud services today. How they are reacting to both public and private cloud initiatives. What it will mean over the next couple of years for IT decision makers and implementers. Learn More Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities The rise of cloud computing and mobility could elevate the open source OS to a level of unprecedented dominance. Read More DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity. Read More Software tracking could turn Chinese piracy into revenue China has long been a major hotspot for software piracy. Efforts to track unlicensed software use, however, are giving companies a chance to find the offenders and turn them into customers. Or in some cases, targets for lawsuits. Read More WEBCAST: GFI Software GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform. View now Close encounters with Steve Jobs Have you ever met, talked with, or seen Steve Jobs? Famously private, the ex-Apple CEO is far from being a social butterly. But he's not a recluse, and he's been around for a quite awhile. And that means: human contact. Read More Distracted to death (Jennifer Aniston naked) It seems that pretty much all of us are obsessed by our portable technology to what can only described as an epic degree and this has interesting and serious consequences. Read More Potential pitfalls in Apple CEO transition, say experts Apple's new CEO faces a challenge putting his own imprint on the company as long as Steve Jobs sticks around, a management expert said today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya Why Corporations Need to Automate IT Systems Management In today's competitive business environment, corporations across all industries are looking to provide quality products and services while at the same time cutting costs, saving energy and doing more with less. Automated IT systems management is the ultimate facilitator for achieving these goals…and more. Read now New AMD CEO faces challenges in mobile Newly minted Advanced Micro Devices CEO Rory Read faces a challenge in turning around the company's mobile strategy to wage a competitive battle against rivals Intel and ARM. Read More VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday. Read More Silver Peak unveils free WAN acceleration product Silver Peak today announced free downloadable software that performs the same data acceleration functions as its enterprise-class product, but only for data replication between two sites and not multiple applications. Read More Google+ lets users 'ignore' those annoying people Google+ has a new option that will enable users to take a simple step to 'ignore' people on the social networking site. Read More
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