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	10 most powerful cloud companies Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets 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 it free today. In this Issue Naked truth: Dell Streak discontinued Sourcefire shipping its first two app-aware, next-gen firewalls Changes to Cisco Jabber and WebEx When IT gets to play: Skunk works projects deliver value U.S. HPC Lead in Danger Carrier IQ: A privacy tempest in your pants pocket Cerf: Internet Governance Critical Issue CA weighs in with Cloud 360 4G v LTE v 3G v EDGE: Is Data Speed Really That Important? WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase IQ Supercharges Predictive Analytics This white paper introduces you to Sybase® IQ—a high-performance, scalable column-store database engine which has been repeatedly proven to meet the predictive analytics needs for a wide variety of businesses. Read now. Naked truth: Dell Streak discontinued Dell has yanked the Dell Streak 7 tablet computer from its online stores, quietly acknowledging the failure of the Android device to catch on with consumers as the company redirects its tablet focus to combination work/play products. Read More Sourcefire shipping its first two app-aware, next-gen firewalls Sourcefire Monday said it expects to begin shipping its first two next-generation firewall appliances later this month, entering an increasingly crowded market. Read More Changes to Cisco Jabber and WebEx It seems Cisco stepped it up again. A few weeks back, Cisco announced that they have invested in the collaboration game with new improvements to Cisco Jabber and WebEx. From what I'm reading, this is cool stuff. It opens up new possibilities for Cisco in the area of business communications and processes. Here are some highlights: Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Three Steps to Effective Cloud Planning & Design Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Learn More! When IT gets to play: Skunk works projects deliver value It's called the technology petting zoo. Stocked with the latest high-tech gadgets, games, systems and software that could potentially be of business value, it's a place where engineers and other IT users at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory can try out the steady stream of hot, new consumer technologies and imagine the possibilities. Read More U.S. HPC Lead in Danger Programs to develop ever-higher performance exascale computing systems are underway around the world -- but the U.S. isn't yet leading the way after dominating high-performance computing development for decades. (Insider, registration required.) Read More Carrier IQ: A privacy tempest in your pants pocket Privacy and cyber law experts weigh in on the privacy implications surrounding the Carrier IQ mobile diagnostic software. Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Building the Intelligent Cloud-Ready Data Center For CIOs today, the challenges are many and often difficult. They must support more revenue generating projects without having to expand, rebuild or move their data centers. Many are turning to virtualization to consolidate resources and make this happen. Learn More! Cerf: Internet Governance Critical Issue Vint Cerf, widely considered one of the inventors of the Internet, recently said that Internet governance is one of the most important issues in the high-tech world. Read More CA weighs in with Cloud 360 CA Technologies addresses the public cloud in three ways: helping enterprises understand how to use it; enabling service providers to build it; and, managing customers' expectations about how operating in the cloud will change how they do business. Read More 4G v LTE v 3G v EDGE: Is Data Speed Really That Important? Having a bleeding-edge, blazin'-fast smartphone is all fine and good. But what does it really get you, beside significantly less battery life? Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Cornell professor: Carrier IQ affair 'my worst nightmare' Gartner predictions for 2012 10 most powerful cloud companies Cracking ND5 ... with Google?! Skeptics find flaws in Carrier IQ application analysis iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Dec. 2 2011's biggest security snafus Cisco to introduce larger Cius tablet next year How stupid can cell carriers be? Really stupid Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape
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