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Chambers: We Should Have Killed Cisco Cius Earlier
SAN DIEGO -- Cisco should have shuttered Cius nine months before it did, CEO John Chambers told reporters at the CiscoLive! conference here this week. Read More


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Centage/IOMA Budgeting Survey: Benchmarks & Issues
How are other financial professionals dealing with the issues you face? This report offers you an inside peak into what the minds at over 200 financial executives are thinking and doing to impact their own bottom line. Learn more.

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Disaster Recovery Services Providers Evaluation
Improvements in disaster recovery plans and broad business continuity strategies are top-of-mind concerns for leading enterprises today and recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. These key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report. Read Now!

Cisco ends the SDN suspense
At long last, the wait - and suspense - is over. Read More

The World's Best (and Worst) IT Cities to Work and Play
Despite all the economic and political strife in the world, the globe-trotting techie still has opportunities for working at home and abroad -- and even take in an adventure! For every hot spot, however, there's an evil twin nearby. Here are some cities that should tickle the traveling bone of IT pros, as well as cities in the same country to steer clear of. Read More

TechEd 2012: Windows 8 tablets can be for the enterprise, too, Microsoft says
Low-power Windows 8 tablets will have features consumers want, and with a little effort can be adapted to use in corporate networks, too, IT pros were told at a TechEd 2012 educational session. Read More

Leading Internet prognosticator still pessimistic about IPv6
Geoff Huston, an Australian researcher whose predictions about IPv4 depletion dates have proven uncannily accurate over the years, is still not certain that IPv6 will get deployed in time to avert an addressing crisis across the Internet. Read More

VMware virtualizing Hadoop via Project Serengeti
VMware on Wednesday announced Project Serengeti, open source code that optimizes Hadoop for use in VMware virtualized environments. Read More


WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation

Transforming Tier 1 Applications through Virtualization
This Technology Spotlight will explore the benefits of virtualizing tier 1 applications and discuss the role that EMC Consulting plays in virtualizing top tier Microsoft applications (including Exchange, SharePoint and SQL) on the VMware platform. Learn More

US companies show most interest in new top-level domain names
Seven companies want news, eight want music or a movie, and seven want love. Four want pizza, but none of them make it. Only two want sex, and one even wants a unicorn. Read More

Global Payments says data breach investigation turned up a second breach
Global Payments, the electronic transaction-processing firm which acknowledged a data breach in April related to a suspected 1.5 million payment card numbers, yesterday said its ongoing investigation into that is turning up another issue: "potential unauthorized access to servers containing personal information collected from a subset of merchant applicants." Read More

Snopes.com debunks old C++ 'interview' hoax
For anyone bearing the brunt of an Internet hoax that just won't die, there's little more to hope for in terms of potential relief than a story on Snopes.com stating unequivocally that the hoax is indeed a hoax. After all, Snopes is the gold standard when it comes to debunking nonsense. Computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup received precisely that maximum measure of support a week ago, yet the man... Read More

Seagate adds social backup to external drives
Shaw reviews Seagate's Backup Plus external storage drives, Rubbo International's D-Wings. Read More

Steve Jobs' LSD habit, why he indulged in Marijuana, and his 1975 arrest
It's hardly a secret that Steve Jobs used to indulge in some recreational drug use back in the day. Indeed, Jobs once said that taking LSD was one of the "two or three most important things" he ever did in his life. A bold statement, to be sure, but Jobs credits his LSD experiences with opening up his mind and enabling him to see the world in a different light. Read More


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Limelight Accelerate
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Trolls be warned: Court ruling could unmask internet trolls everywhere
After innocently posting a comment in favor of a contestant on the reality TV show X Factor, Nicola Brookes was the target of an all-too-familiar swarm of internet trolls looking to get a reaction out of her. They may have been too successful for their own good. Read More

Answers to your Retina MacBook Pro questions
You have questions, oh so many questions, about the new Retina MacBook Pro. You had so many questions that they couldn't all be covered in Jason Snell's hands-on article. So Jason gracefully handed the Retina MacBook Pro over to me so I can address more of your questions, asked via Twitter (through our @macworld account). Read More

Alan Turing in the media
A look at the Father of Computer Science's media portrayals upon the celebration of his birth 100 years ago Read More

Securing mixed cloud environments
Securing cloud computing environments is challenging enough, but is made all the more complicated when a mix of cloud options are employed, an approach that will become increasingly common. Read More

Any.DO To-Do App for Android Makes Noteworthy iOS Debut
Even if you're already using a to-do app on your iPhone or iPod touch, you'll want to check out Any.DO thanks to its slick interface and attractive price tag: Free. Read More

 
 
 

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