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The 10 mightiest supercomputers on Earth
Our look at the biggest, baddest computing machines in current use Read More


RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch File Transfer

File Sharing — A Security Vulnerability. Are you at risk?
What happens when employees go around IT and use their own Dropbox-like services, webmail or USB drives to send company information? This practice presents significant security and compliance risks including: Loss of control over who has access to files and data, lack of visibility and audit trails, risk of data breaches and compliance violations Join us, on June 19th or June 20th, for a quick 29-minute webinar. Experts Michael Osterman and Ipswitch's David Boone discuss the issues. You'll learn the top 3 things required for a user-acceptable, IT-governed business-class file sharing solution.

WHITE PAPER: Oracle

BI Optimization: Building a Better Business Case for BI
This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition. Read Now

Barnes & Noble not part of today's mysterious Microsoft announcement
Barnes & Noble today confirmed that it is not participating in Microsoft's hastily called news conference Monday afternoon, likely making moot rumors that the two would co-introduce a new tablet or e-reader. Read More

FCC to Review Cell Phone Radiation Standards
The Federal Communications Commission wants to reopen an inquiry into whether its regulations do enough to protect consumers from harmful radiation from cell phones. Read More

US reclaims top spot on Top500 supercomputing list
The U.S. once again has the most powerful supercomputer in the world, thanks to the U.S. Department of Energy's Sequoia, according to the latest edition of the Top500 supercomputer list, ending Asia's hold on the top spot. Sequoia's 1.57 million processor cores can perform 16.32 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point calculations per second). Read More

Porn maker's lawsuit against roommate threatens free Wi-Fi
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WHITE PAPER: Certeon

Accelerate Business Continuity
This lab-validated performance results report will enable IT and SAN administrators to take complete advantage of volume replication while reducing replication-based WAN traffic. Learn more.

First look: Samsung's new Chromebook
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Students: Has Apple got a MacBook and iPad deal for you!
While some students are still waiting to be released from classes, Apple has begun offering back-to-school specials on its MacBook and iPad. Read More

BYOD exposes the perils of cloud storage
As more and more companies adopt BYOD policies, IT managers are taking steps to prevent employees from using cloud-based consumer storage services with their personal devices. Read More

'Occupy' protests send police shopping for wearable cop cams
In his lengthy career with the Oakland Police Department, Steve Lovell encountered plenty of cases where in-field video footage could have come in handy. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

2012 WAN Optimization Magic Quadrant
Limited bandwidth, long distances and poor network quality prohibit cost reductions for today's critical IT initiatives. Your IT organization needs WAN optimization that can be deployed anywhere, on any platform, and for the lowest cost. See how the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers can help. Read now.

Mozilla's concept iPad browser eliminates the URL bar, tabbed browsing
Safari for iPad has a "pretty miserable" user experience and browsers for Android tablets are even worse, according to Mozilla developers working on an iPad browser of their own, called Junior. Their vision of tablet browsing, presented in a video made last week, removes the URL bar and strips away tabs to achieve a sleeker and simpler browser experience on tablets. Read More

What Cisco ONE means for Cisco's future in SDN
There was no hotter topic at Cisco Live 2012 than software defined networks (SDN). The industry has been talking about the concept of SDN for a couple of years now but customer interest in it seems to be at an all-time high. Many of the primary network vendors have outlined their SDN strategy and Cisco used its user event, Cisco Live, to outline its strategy. RELATED: Cisco on why OpenFlow alone doesn't... Read More

Can I sue Verizon for false FiOS advertising?
Verizon today has launched new bundled options of its FiOS broadband Internet service, promising "Quantum" speeds up to 300Mbps for its customers. Check out this flashy video from the company, in which a guy in a flight suit leaps off a very tall mountain and lands "in your house", proving how fast their Internet service is. Read More

Why Yammer Is Worth $1 Billion to Microsoft
Microsoft seems to be at the center of all the rumors right now in a way normally reserved for Apple. Aside form the mystery media event in Los Angeles later today, where Microsoft is expected to make a tablet-related announcement of some sort; it's also the focus of speculation that it is finalizing talks to acquire Yammer for around $1 billion. Read More

Samsung's SAFE for Galaxy S III aims to help IT embrace Android
Samsung announced a new program on Monday to help enterprise IT shops feel more confident about allowing workers to use the coming Galaxy S III smartphone on the job. Read More

5 Ways Cloud Computing Is Like Open Source
A decade ago, most IT departments denounced open-source software. Now they embrace the way that open source encourages innovation while saving money. The furor over cloud computing shows that history is repeating itself. The outcome should be the same, columnist Bernard Golden says. Read More

 
 
 

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First Look: Apple's "beautiful" new MacBook lineup
Apple rolled out major upgrades for both of its main notebooks today at WWDC. Here's a quick look at the new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.

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