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	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 Copying Sensitive Data Into Non-Production Environments Download this paper to learn data masking best practices and enable your organization to safely use production data for development, testing, and sharing with out-source or off-shore partners, without risking a sensitive data breach. Learn More! In this Issue IBM Touts Quantum Computing Advance Career Watch: Which will be the jobs of the 21st century? 5 Ways to Prepare for Big Data With Scale-Out NAS Western Digital closes Hitachi GST acquisition, to operate separate subsidiaries 11 open source programming tools on the rise Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices Techies are spending a lot of time on PCs in our post-PC world 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 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 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 WHITE PAPER: APC How Data Center Management Software Improves Planning Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enabling the business to respond more quickly to market demands. 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 Western Digital closes Hitachi GST acquisition, to operate separate subsidiaries Western Digital completed Thursday the acquisition of the hard drive business of Hitachi, and set up two subsidiaries with separate brands and products, apparently to meet the conditions of antitrust regulators. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! 11 open source programming tools on the rise Linus Torvalds's fabled 'world domination' on the desktops of clerks or CEOs may never arrive, but it's already here on the computers of programmers everywhere 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 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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