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	'Big data' creating big career opportunities for IT pros New job opportunities are emerging for IT professionals in the field of "big data," the term used to describe how corporations gather vast amounts of real-time data about their customers and analyze that data to drive decision making and increase profitability. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Avaya Avaya Mobile Collaboration Read a complimentary Frost & Sullivan white paper: Prepare Your Enterprise for the Mobile Revolution. The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Learn how to keep costs in check, boost user productivity, deliver a consistent experience, and maintain a single, manageable corporate identity for all end-users. In this Issue A deep dive into Windows 8 Consumer Preview iPad HD - What Apple's calling its next-gen tablet A $500,000 bet on Internet security Slashdot founder Malda lands at Washington Post The story of the Picasso and a 1.5 ton robot One man's food-recall alert is another's raw meet Intel's Romley products could put crimp in competition Cloud consultants Cloud Sherpas, Global One merge Tips for developing a mobile device management strategy Google patches 14 Chrome bugs, pays record $47K in bounties and bonuses Privacy not in Eric Schmidt's vision of the future New Job Search Service Helps Job Seekers Penetrate Applicant Tracking Systems RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix Ready for 2048-bit SSL? Not with F5. The Iron Age is officially over. The Cloud Age is here. Don't let stronger security compromise performance. NetScaler gives your network a competitive edge with the industry best 2048-bit SSL transaction/sec performance. 2x faster SSL performance than F5. 50% lower SSL costs. Download the Citrix and Verisign White Paper and the NetScaler vs. F5 Performance Comparison now. A deep dive into Windows 8 Consumer Preview Windows 8 Consumer Preview offers a new look at Microsoft's upcoming interface for both computers and tablets. Is one device being shortchanged in favor of the other? Read More iPad HD - What Apple's calling its next-gen tablet Say goodbye to the iPad 3 and instead say hello to the iPad HD. A number of sources are now relaying that Apple's next-gen tablet will be dubbed the iPad HD, an overt reference to its expected 2048 x 1536 Retina Display. Read More A $500,000 bet on Internet security Longtime cloud security advocate Philippe Courtot believes he has identified the Achilles' heel of cloud security, and he wants to protect it. Read More Slashdot founder Malda lands at Washington Post When last we left Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, he was recounting (along with his wife) the experience of having proposed marriage to her 10 years ago this past Valentine's Day ... in a memorably public manner: on the homepage of Slashdot, the tech news site that he founded. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Companies like Foursquare, StrongMail, and ExoIS are taking charge of cloud server security using Halo from CloudPassage, which ensures easy, scalable, and automated security for dynamic cloud environments. Register today to Secure 25 Cloud Servers for Free with Halo Basic. The story of the Picasso and a 1.5 ton robot Spanish telecom firm Telefonica built a robot to digitally image and look for problems with Pablo Picasso's famous 'Guernica' painting Read More One man's food-recall alert is another's raw meet The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently set up state-by-state Twitter accounts through which followers "will receive alerts about recalls of meat, poultry and processed egg products. " Read More Intel's Romley products could put crimp in competition The upcoming launch of products powered by Intel's new Romley platform could make waves in the server sector, according to experts. Read More Cloud consultants Cloud Sherpas, Global One merge Cloud Sherpas and Global One, which advise clients in implementing cloud-based Software as a Service applications, have merged in what is a sign of the continually busy M&A activity in the SaaS market. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobility KnowledgeVault How "mobile ready" is your infrastructure? This Mobility Knowledge Vault provides a wide variety of expert advice on how to strike a balance between end user ease-of-use and security. View now Tips for developing a mobile device management strategy As more employees bring personal devices to work, companies want to strike a balance between being agents of change and adaptation to mobile technology and safeguarding data. Rolling out mobile device management often means choosing unpopular rules. Read More Google patches 14 Chrome bugs, pays record $47K in bounties and bonuses Google yesterday patched 14 vulnerabilities in Chrome and handed out a record $47,500 in rewards to researchers, including $30,000 for "sustained, extraordinary" contributions to its bug-reporting program. Read More Privacy not in Eric Schmidt's vision of the future Google Chairman Eric Schmidt painted a messianic picture of our technological future on Monday, involving holographic telepresence, self-driving cars, automatic translation and the widespread deployment of 1Gbps Internet access over optical fiber, bringing transnational peace and communication to all. Read More New Job Search Service Helps Job Seekers Penetrate Applicant Tracking Systems Preptel's "ResumeterPro" service claims to increase job seekers' chances of landing job interviews and offers, first by helping job seekers get through applicant tracking systems, then by providing job seekers with competitive intelligence on other candidates applying for the same job. CIO.com investigates whether it's worth your money. Read More
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