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	13 Windows 8 features worth knowing about Upgrades, system migration, support headaches -- IT folks are probably dreading the next major Windows rollout. Yet Windows 8, which is scheduled to move to the beta stage in late February and will likely launch in the fall, does offer several compelling new features for both IT and end users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 8 Reasons Why Citrix NetScaler Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. Shift up to the Cloud. Download 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Learn More In this Issue Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G Cook hires first exec since taking Apple's reins from Jobs IT salaries: Growth reflects positive changes in the IT job market IBM buys Worklight for mobile software platform Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service In search of an energy yardstick Cisco Fellow lands at Nicira Pentaho open sources 'big data' integration tools under Apache 2.0 Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays F5 shakes up the firewall market RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing sectors. However, cloud providers usage agreements make the user responsible for protecting servers, applications and data. CloudPassage Halo is the award winning cloud server security platform that has everything you need to secure your cloud servers. Get Free Halo Basic Today! Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities. Read More Cook hires first exec since taking Apple's reins from Jobs Apple CEO Tim Cook made his first major hire yesterday since taking over the company in August, bringing in the CEO of a struggling British electronics chain to lead Apple's own retail operation. Read More IT salaries: Growth reflects positive changes in the IT job market Software developers, information security analysts, network architects and business intelligence analysts are among the IT professionals experiencing the most significant salary growth in 2012, according to a new report from IT staffing firm Bluewolf. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Read now! IBM buys Worklight for mobile software platform IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed. Read More Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Read More In search of an energy yardstick We take a comprehensive look at the new green-IT metrics for measuring data center efficiency and productivity from The Green Grid and other industry groups. (Insider content, registration required.) Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ Streamlining IT Operations with Business Service Management This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the benefits of a business service management practice and tools in response to IT environments becoming more dynamic and complex due to the increased use of virtualization, cloud, SOA, and n-tier application architectures. Learn More Cisco Fellow lands at Nicira The industry is awaiting the official debut of Nicira, a stealthy network virtualization start-up backed by Andreessen Horowitz, among other investors. Nicira is fresh off of landing a Cisco Fellow as its chief service provider architect, according to AllThingsD. Read More Pentaho open sources 'big data' integration tools under Apache 2.0 BI vendor Pentaho is open sourcing a number of tools related to "big data" in its Kettle data-integration platform and has moved the project overall to the Apache 2.0 license, the company announced Tuesday. Read More Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays Nimbus today announced an enterprise-class version of its all-NAND flash primary storage array that sports redundant controller modules and twice the capacity of the previous model. Read More F5 shakes up the firewall market The high-end of the firewall market has really been dominated by two companies: Crossbeam Systems (with Check Point Software) and Juniper Networks. Over the past few years, these two firms won most of the high revenue/high margin enterprise and service provider deals. Of course, others took notice and wanted their own piece of the pie. Read More
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