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	Dell's acquisition a Wyse one, analysts say Dell's announcement on Monday that it had finalized an agreement to acquire thin client maker Wyse allows the company to fill a portfolio gap that had been exploited by competitors such as HP, according to industry experts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Responding to New Threats in More Complex IT Environments As organizations today face the challenge of protecting their valuable data, they must balance that protection with giving business users and customers access to the data. Learn More! In this Issue Carriers make their play in the cloud Cool, weird and unusual security gear INSIDER A sampling of BYOD user policies 'Kelso' as Steve Jobs just doesn't sound right 4 critical trends in IT business continuity New iPad gets raves from survey and Consumer Reports OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter blasts former programmer, then apologizes IBM to develop telescope data analysis system The Byte - Global Payments hacked, April Fools, BMW concept Apache promotes Sqoop as Top Level Project ACLU: Most US police don't seek warrants before tracking cell phones RIM is NOT Exiting the Consumer Market WHITE PAPER: IBM Get more out of cloud with a structured workload analysis Adopting cloud technology is a reasonably easy decision. Figuring out when and how to get the most value from cloud computing is the next—often more challenging—step. Read this white paper to learn how a robust analysis of your workloads can help identify candidates for your target cloud environments. Read Now Carriers make their play in the cloud The wave started last year when Time Warner Cable, the telecommunications company serving much of the Eastern United States, spent $230 million to purchase NaviSite, a provider of cloud services for businesses. Read More Cool, weird and unusual security gear The unusual security stuff for sale at the recent GovSec Conference in Washington, D.C. Read More INSIDER A sampling of BYOD user policies Just say the words "bring your own device" and IT staffers start to rub their foreheads. Allowing users to attach their consumer devices, including smartphones and tablets, to the network might seem like a bad idea, but with a clear user policy that is re-signed annually, you can reduce a lot of organizational risk. Read More 'Kelso' as Steve Jobs just doesn't sound right Ashton (Michael Kelso) Kutcher as Steve Jobs? That's the word being reported over the weekend, and while I consider myself a bona fide fan of "That '70s Show," I have a hard time imagining Jobs-like words coming out of Michael Kelso's mouth. I mean let's looks at their respective bodies of work. Read More WHITE PAPER: Radware Is Your Application Delivery Future-Proof? We understand your datacenter is constantly evolving but your budget probably isn't. We understand the strict SLAs your business requires. We understand you have your own virtualization pace. Learn More 4 critical trends in IT business continuity In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to internal users and outside customers. Read More New iPad gets raves from survey and Consumer Reports Overheating issues? Easily breakable? "Whatever," say consumers. The new iPad is still the best tablet around. Read More OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter blasts former programmer, then apologizes Nearly two weeks ago, Zynga made waves in the mobile gaming space when it acquired OMGPOP, the company behind the hit app Draw Something, for a reported $180 million. As part of the acquisition, all of OMGPOP's employees accepted new roles at Zynga with one exception - OMGPOP programmer Shay Pierce. Read More IBM to develop telescope data analysis system IBM is developing new data management and analysis technologies for what will be the world's largest radio telescope. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), due to become operational in 2024, will produce so much data that even tomorrow's off-the-shelf computers will have difficulty processing all of it, the company predicted. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Software BMC Control-M - Single Point of Control Demo With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything — down to the very last platform and application — from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really — the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can. Learn More! The Byte - Global Payments hacked, April Fools, BMW concept Payment processing company Global Payments said that up to one and a half million credit card numbers may have been hacked. The web had fun with April fool's Day, with a number of sites playing along with the April 1 gag. Read More Apache promotes Sqoop as Top Level Project As more organizations deploy Hadoop to analyze vast reams of information, they may find they need to transfer large amounts of data between Hadoop and their existing databases, data warehouses and other data stores. Now the volunteer developers behind a new connector designed to speed this data exchange have gotten the full support from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Read More ACLU: Most US police don't seek warrants before tracking cell phones Many law enforcement agencies across the U.S. track mobile phones as part of investigations, but only a minority ask for court-ordered warrants, according to a new report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union. Read More RIM is NOT Exiting the Consumer Market Despite a number of news reports suggesting that BlackBerry-maker RIM is planning to exit the consumer smartphone market, the Canadian company will continue to cater to consumer users while also renewing its focus on its enterprise roots. Read More
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