Smithsonian exhibit celebrates 40 years of creativity

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	Video game art: Smithsonian exhibit celebrates 40 years of creativity The Art of Video Games opens at The Smithsonian American Art Museum on March 16. Conceived to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, the exhibition features 80 video games and includes interviews with developers and artists, playable games, and vintage game consoles. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP Learn more Learn more In this Issue Q&A: Chris Melissinos on curating Smithsonian's 'The Art of Video Games' What the cloud really means for your IT job 'Insatiable demand' for streaming video puts pressure on providers Cisco incubating software-defined network startup? IT skills shortages inside companies hamper profitability, productivity VMware eases cloud provisioning A look at China's cyberwar planning Indiana turns up 100G Ethernet research net The big promise of big data Meru unveils virtualized WLAN infrastructure RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. Q&A: Chris Melissinos on curating Smithsonian's 'The Art of Video Games' A longtime game designer and collector of gaming systems, Chris Melissinos talks with Network World about why the art of video games is different from other artistic media, the 'separation anxiety' he's feeling after loaning his vintage gaming systems to the travelling exhibition, and why now is the opportune time for an exhibition like this. Read More What the cloud really means for your IT job Depending on which survey or story you read, the cloud can be either a good thing for IT workers and their job security, or it can be terrifying. Read More 'Insatiable demand' for streaming video puts pressure on providers Just as enterprise network managers brace for the flood of bandwidth-consuming content stemming from the NCAA men's basketball tournament, content delivery providers put in a significant amount of time preparing to meet the meteoric rise in demand. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. A Foundation for Universal WAN Optimization Cloud architectures. Remote access to big data. Application performance in an increasingly networked world. A renewed focus on DR/BC based on instant replication between multiple data centers. All are driving a need for more flexible WAN optimization that can be cost effectively deployed across both private and public networks. Learn more. Cisco incubating software-defined network startup? Cisco is reportedly considering incubating an internal startup chartered to develop the company's software-defined networking product line. Read More IT skills shortages inside companies hamper profitability, productivity CIOs who've been hard-pressed to make convincing business cases for increasing their training budgets may now have the data they need. Results of a recent survey conducted by the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) show the impact of IT skills shortages on organizations' profitability, productivity, innovation, speed to market, security and customer service. Read More VMware eases cloud provisioning VMware has made its vCloud Integration Manager available, which it says lets service providers more efficiently provision cloud networks for clients. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Unlock the Value of Cloud Computing with Workload Automation Learn how to get the most from your cloud investment in our on-demand webinar from BMC and InformationWeek. You'll hear how integrating the cloud into your production workload brings critical business benefits. Learn More! 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 Indiana turns up 100G Ethernet research net The State of Indiana has launched a 100G Ethernet network for research and education. Read More The big promise of big data For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done. Read More Meru unveils virtualized WLAN infrastructure Meru Networks this week unveiled virtualized versions of its wireless LAN infrastructure software, part of trend that's simplifying enterprise WLANs and eliminating hardware. Read More
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