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	Cool hacks: DIY cellphones and a magic trackpad rethink There's something of the hacker in all IT people ... there has to be because you spend so much of your time figuring out how things work and how to fix said things when they break (which is usually far too often). Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems 4 Steps to High Performance WAN and Internet Learn how in four simple steps you can take advantage of Blue Coat's expertise and technology to gain visibility and control for an effective WAN performance strategy. Read now. In this Issue 5 Key Interop 2012 Takeaways for CIOs and Other IT Pros Heavy Lies the Crown: Apple's Mobile Success Puts it on Thin Security Ice The Four Lies of Networking Why aren't Apple and Amazon dumping on Windows RT? This is why people pirate Windows What's up with Google Drive? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Your IT Career Roadmap This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue 5 Key Interop 2012 Takeaways for CIOs and Other IT Pros As everything from application delivery to security and monitoring is seemingly shifting to the cloud, IT faces a chaotic and difficult to manage world. The good news is the tools are there, but you just can't go to a single provider as you did in the past. Given this shift, it's no surprise that Interop returned to its interoperability roots last week. Read More Heavy Lies the Crown: Apple's Mobile Success Puts it on Thin Security Ice Last week, I was hanging out with my friend Steve, who is a professional digital cinematographer and long-time Apple Macintosh user. We were talking about how great a piece of hardware the iPhone 4S is, when there was a pregnant pause in conversation before he asked me, "So why did this Flashback thing happen?" Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Strategic Road Map for Network Access Control Long derided as an overhyped concept, network access control (NAC) has emerged as an important solution for mitigating the risks of consumerization. Network and security managers will need NAC to retain control of the network in a "bring your own device" (BYOD) environment. Read now. The Four Lies of Networking Big Data and networking in general are all about numbers and statistics. We talk about our Petabytes of data, the number of packets per second and the Mbytes replicated in an hour. We want to know about the uptime percentages of our services and the time to repair on our circuits. We're sold on loss ratios and round trip times. Read More Why aren't Apple and Amazon dumping on Windows RT? Mozilla's top lawyer is upset because he's pretty sure Windows RT won't support a fully featured Firefox browser. Intel's CEO Paul Otellini hip-checked Windows RT because he says it won't support legacy Windows 7 applications. Read More WEBCAST: FireEye FireEye Advanced Threat Protection KnowledgeVault This interactive KnowledgeVault focuses on the continually evolving and sophisticated tactics of cybercriminals and how you can protect your enterprise against next-generation targeted threats with next-generation technology. Learn more. This is why people pirate Windows Once upon a time during college and working IT, running a computer repair shop on the side, and then later corporate world days, Microsoft Windows pretty much guaranteed plenty of work what with the constant world of updating Windows patches, testing then pushing out updates, and installing or reinstalling Microsoft software after poor user input to name but a few reasons. I could not even begin to... Read More What's up with Google Drive? Now that Google has rolled out their competitor to Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive, and both the Dropbox folks and Microsoft have made adjustments in their products to respond to what Google offers, let's take a step back to see what the newcomer is bringing to the table. Most obvious is the capability to use the cloud to store everything you do in Google Docs - making it accessible from anywhere... Read More
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