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	The XRBL Challenge: Making the free market fair So, the more we all know about how corporations work, the more level the playing field can be. And one of the areas where we need far more data than has traditionally been available is corporate information in the form of the various filings that corporate entities are required to do. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks The Small Risk, High Reward Infrastructure With F5, IT can deliver a flexible blend of physical, virtual and cloud environments without risking application performance and reliability. Learn More! In this Issue Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 365 6 tools that help businesses tame Twitter Pillars of Python: Six Python Web frameworks compared Tech survivors: Geek technologies that still thrive 25 to 50 years later Google+: antisocial networking? Barracuda doubles capacity of cloud storage, retains pricing An open source Gorilla in the mists Google's VP8 getting help from an unlikely source Desktop search: Free and paid apps for finding your data Skytap automates cloud deployments WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Security and Compliance in the Cloud Discover how to handle today's biggest challenges: coordinating user credentials and identities, controlling unmanaged user devices; and providing security when the datacenter,network and server assets exist in the Cloud. Compliments of Citrix. Read now! Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft and Google agree that hosted productivity suites offer unique benefits for evolving business needs. Of course the two behemoths traveled very different paths to reach this conclusion, and bring different strengths to their respective offerings. Which one is right you? Read both sides and decide for yourself. Read More 6 tools that help businesses tame Twitter Twitter can be a powerful business tool, not to mention a valuable source of metrics data and feedback. If not managed properly, though, Twitter tweets can quickly become overwhelming -- sifting out the nonsense to get to the nuggets of useful information can become a full-time job. Thankfully, there are a variety of tools you can employ to help your business manage Twitter and cut through the noise. Read More Pillars of Python: Six Python Web frameworks compared CubicWeb, Django, Pyramid, Web.py, Web2py, and Zope 2 give Python-savvy Web application developers powerful and diverse options. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 ROI of Application Delivery Controllers How modern offload technologies in Application Delivery Controllers can drastically reduce expenses in traditional and virtualized architectures, with a fast ROI. Learn More! Tech survivors: Geek technologies that still thrive 25 to 50 years later These 18 technologies remain core to the computing experience for IT, engineers, and developers. Read More Google+: antisocial networking? Last issue we started looking at Google's new social network, Google+, and its "Real Names" policy. We discussed the problem of using a single name as your identifier with all of the various "Circles" you can create, presumably to keep your boss from seeing the postings of your "homeboys" about that little party on Saturday night. But being only able to use a single name isn't the worst problem. Read More Barracuda doubles capacity of cloud storage, retains pricing Barracuda Networks today announced it has doubled the amount of cloud storage capacity available to customers of its backup service, but it kept the price at $50 per month. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Performance Metrics and the Cloud Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More An open source Gorilla in the mists Back in April I wrote about a Colorado based company called Gorilla Logic. They develop Rich Internet Applications and Mobile Apps. Driven partially at least by their own needs, they have also developed a suite of automated testing tools for iPhone, iPad, Adobe Air and Flex. Read More Google's VP8 getting help from an unlikely source Google received support this week for its embattled WebM video format from an unlikely source. Skype announced that it has adopted VP8 the codec in WebM as its default solution for video conferencing for both one on one and group video calls. Of course with Skype now serving their corporate overloads in Redmond, this means that Microsoft is at least tacitly endorsing and supporting the format. Read More Desktop search: Free and paid apps for finding your data I've said it before: I'm a world-class pack rat, at least when it comes to my digital life. With several thousand emails on my hard drive, not to mention thousands of documents, photos, and music tracks, you might think I could never find anything. But I can. Read More Skytap automates cloud deployments Skytap, a provider of cloud automation software, this week unveiled orchestration and configuration products designed to enable enterprises to easily create virtual environments in the cloud. Read More
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