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	New Cisco servers have Intel Xeon E5 inside Cisco this week expanded its data center portfolio with servers and networking gear to better support virtualization, cloud computing and Big Data. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Improve Your Business Capabilities Cisco enables businesses to realize the benefits of cloud computing - improved agility, better economics, enhanced security and a dynamic, assured experience. Cisco CloudVerse combines three key cloud elements - Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network, and Cloud Applications and Services. Learn more. In this Issue Useful security threat data advisory tools Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices IBM Touts Quantum Computing Advance Who's to Blame When IT Breaks? Career Watch: Which will be the jobs of the 21st century? Storage software sales hit all-time record highs 5 Ways to Prepare for Big Data With Scale-Out NAS Watson clones could be delivered through the cloud White House names Park as new CTO IBM moves 1Tbps of data on an optical chip Techies are spending a lot of time on PCs in our post-PC world WHITE PAPER: Riverbed vSphere Optimization Tactics Learn how this appliance handled Layer 4 connections and requests per second, HTTP connections and requests per second, HTTP 2K requests per second, HTTP throughput, SSL connections per second, SSL throughput, cache requests per second, and cache throughput. Read now. Useful security threat data advisory tools Check out these browser-based tools to keep up on the latest cyber security threats Read More Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices AT&T has given new life to "The Hello Machine," a 1974 wordless film that celebrates the hand-crafting by Western Electric workers of a complete Electronic Switching System, which at the time was not yet 10-year-old technology. Directed by Carroll Ballard ("Never Cry Wolf," "The Black Stallion"), the 11-minute "film-poem" was posted to the AT&T Tech Channel on YouTube earlier this month. Read More IBM Touts Quantum Computing Advance Scientists at IBM Research say they have achieved a major breakthrough in quantum computing that will allow engineers to begin creating a full-scale quantum machine. Read More WHITE PAPER: FireEye FireEye Advanced Threat Report – 2H2011 This report is unique in that it is not an analysis of well-known malware or billions of spam messages. Instead, we provide insight into the threats that are successful and therefore dangerous -- those which got through traditional defenses and into enterprise networks in 2H 2011. Read now. Who's to Blame When IT Breaks? There's always a reason why things break in IT, and the powers that be can usually find someone to blame -- whether that someone is a data center operations staff member, an OEM, a systems integrator or a third-party service provider. (Insider, registration required.) Read More Career Watch: Which will be the jobs of the 21st century? It may be presumptuous to think anyone could identify the top jobs of the 21st century at this early date. Nonetheless, your job might be on the list. Read More Storage software sales hit all-time record highs The sales of storage software in 2011 produced record revenues of more than $14 billion, IDC said. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Access to Sensitive Application Data In this hands-on review, the SANS Institute Analyst Program examines Oracle Database Vault, which provides the capability to limit access of privileged users and DBAs to critical data and actions. Learn More! 5 Ways to Prepare for Big Data With Scale-Out NAS As enterprises seek to move into the big data world--digitizing paper documents and saving email communications, Word docs, Excel files and all sorts of other unstructured data with the hopes of mining them for actionable business intelligence--they need to address a big problem up front: storage. Read More Watson clones could be delivered through the cloud IBM, whose Watson computer system last year famously beat two of the "Jeopardy!" game show's top contestants, is now looking to deliver the AI-powered computer framework through the cloud. Read More White House names Park as new CTO U.S. President Barack Obama has appointed Todd Park as the new CTO for the U.S. government. Read More IBM moves 1Tbps of data on an optical chip IBM researchers have developed a prototype optical chip that can transfer data at 1Tbps (terabit per second), the equivalent of downloading 500 high-definition movies, using light pulses, the company said Thursday. Read More Techies are spending a lot of time on PCs in our post-PC world There's lots of talk about us being in a post-PC world - yesterday, for example, from Ray Ozzie - so I found interesting this current poll on Slashdot that asks: "My PC accounts for (--)% of my computing time?" As of this morning, 6,434 Slashdot readers had weighed in, with this picture (and the text below it) showing the results: Read More
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