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Judea Pearl, big brain behind AI, wins computing's top prize, the AM Turing Award

A look at China's cyberwar planning | Avaya buys Radvision for $230 million

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Judea Pearl, big brain behind AI, wins computing's top prize, the AM Turing Award
Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. Read More


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Virtualized voice: real benefit or illusion?
Does integrating your voice applications into your virtual data center sound like magic? Find out how companies of all sizes are realizing the cost benefits and simplified disaster recovery of unified virtualized voice and data. Learn why Mitel received VMware's prestigious Technology Innovator Partner of the Year award. It's not Magic. It's Mitel. Get in on the Voice Virtualization Act!

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Gartner data center report - no cost.
IT organizations are moving to virtualized data center fabrics. But what's the best strategy? Gartner reports on 8 critical server, storage, and networking requirements for data center fabrics. For a limited time, Xsigo Systems - a leader in data center virtualization - is offering this report with our compliments. Download your copy now.

A look at China's cyberwar planning
China's cyberwar preparations are secret. But here's some of what's known, as detailed in the report "Occupying the Information High Ground: Chinese Capabilities for Computer Network Operations and Cyber Espionage" written by three information security analysts at Northrop Grumman. Here we take a look at some of the facts from that report. Read More

Avaya buys Radvision for $230 million
Avaya will integrate the videoconferencing capabilities of Radvision into its unified communications platform, it said. More to come on this story... Read More

Indiana turns up 100G Ethernet research net
The State of Indiana has launched a 100G Ethernet network for research and education. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Good Technology

Data Loss Prevention Whitepaper: When MDM Isn't Enough
This paper explores common methods of data loss that cannot be prevented through MDM alone. In addition, this paper will introduce Good for Enterprise and its unique approach to managing security on mobile devices, which does address some of the shortcomings of an MDM-only strategy Learn More Now!

Amid doubts about cloud file-sharing services, enterprises operate their own
Cloud-based file-sharing services like Dropbox have become popular, but organizations with sensitive data say they're reluctant to turn it over to cloud services. Instead, they're buying file-sharing products they manage on their own for bulk file transfers among business partners. Read More

Next up for DLP: The cloud?
Traditionally there have been two ways to host a data loss prevention security service: An on-premise application managed by the customer, or an on-premise application managed by the DLP supplier. BEW Global, a managed security service provider, has a third way: Through the cloud. Read More

The mobile app developer's dilemma: How to get paid without annoying users
If there was one common theme among the app developers speaking at Xconomy's Mobile Madness program today, it was this: Don't take your users for granted. Read More


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Beyond Simple Total Cost of Ownership
When considering new applications, the question has always been "Build or Buy?" But increasingly today, it's "Buy or Rent?" In this paper, we analyze the implications and costs of purchasing and implementing cloud-based software (SaaS) vs. traditional on-premise software. Get your copy now, compliments of SuccessFactors. Learn More Now!

Piston Cloud has made the tough private cloud decisions for you
Joshua McKenty, co-founder and chief executive officer of Piston Cloud, what he calls The Enterprise OpenStack Company, was in on the ground floor of OpenStack's creation, working as he was on the Anso Labs team at NASA to build a compute cloud on top of open source platform Eucalyptus. The team eventually gave up on that and wrote Nova, which NASA uses today to power its Nebula Cloud environment, and Nova was ultimately contributed to the OpenStack project, which it formed with Rackspace. McKenty left NASA after Anso was acquired by Rackspace in 2010, and formed Piston Cloud in 2011 with co-founders Gretchen Curtis (also of NASA) and Christopher MacGown of Rackspace. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with McKenty for a deep dive on why OpenStack matters and where Piston Cloud fits in. Read More

Conversations with IT at Premier 100
What issues are top of mind for today's IT leadership? Video interviews with honorees and attendees from the Computerworld Premier 100 event in Phoenix. Read More

Apple joins iPad trade-in bandwagon, offers competitive deals
With the retail debut of the new iPad just a day away, Apple has joined a slew of other companies eager to buy used iPads. Read More

18 firms sued for using privacy-invading mobile apps
Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Yelp and 14 other companies have been hit with a lawsuit accusing them of distributing privacy-invading mobile applications. Read More

Which Open Source CMS Is Right for Your Business?
Open source Web CMS software is a good option for any sized business. We look at three open source Web content management systems -- Drupal, Joomla and WordPress -- and help you pick the best one for your organization. Read More



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