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	The Macintosh II celebrates its 25th anniversary Twenty-five years ago, Apple released the Macintosh II, a powerful, expandable desktop computer that represented a profound ideological design shift in the Macintosh line. Through its open architecture and color display capability, it echoed the experimental philosophy of Apple's earliest machines and ignited a new wave of enthusiasm for the Macintosh platform. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ciena Data Center Without Walls: Welcome to the Cloud The "old school" way of thinking needs to change. It's time for freedom, efficiency and mobility… It's time for what Ciena calls a Data Center Without Walls. Learn how the network is evolving to handle more demanding cloud infrastructure services, driving the emergence of the virtual cloud, workload orchestration, and software defined networking. Register for the Webinar In this Issue Coolest, hottest & strangest gadgets from Taiwan's Computex 2012 show Windows 8 Update: We're talking IPv6-friendly Google's software-defined/OpenFlow backbone drives WAN links to 100% utilization Quiz: Can you navigate Windows 8? Berners-Lee, MIT's Clark offer glimpses into the future of the Internet Mojix extends its wide-area RFID product for enterprises ISOC: IPv6 is the new normal for the Internet New Federal Mobile IT Strategy Must Address Security Microsoft developing Hyper-V support for OpenStack California's budget crisis sparks controversial 'BYOD' plan to save money DARPA wants electronics with radically novel liquid cooling technology CIOs: Don't Let Microsoft's Marketing Drumbeat Drown Out Priorities WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Want to Make Compliance Easy? Get Proactive! Is your business reactively implementing compliance? If so, you're wasting time and money and destroying productivity. Get proactive! Read now! Coolest, hottest & strangest gadgets from Taiwan's Computex 2012 show Windows 8 is hot, the devices are strange, and the experimentation is cool Read More Windows 8 Update: We're talking IPv6-friendly Windows 8 has a bias in favor of IPv6 but can handle IPv4 connectivity when it's the only option, something that will help the IPv6 transition for businesses and individuals. This also fits in with Microsoft's overall commitment to IPv6 in many of its other products, although many of its services lag. Read More Google's software-defined/OpenFlow backbone drives WAN links to 100% utilization Google, an early backer of software-defined networking and OpenFlow, shared some details at the recent Open Networking Summit about how the company is using the technology to link 12 worldwide data centers over 10G links. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Google Principal Engineer Amin Vahdat to learn more. Read More Quiz: Can you navigate Windows 8? Building on our general Windows 8 Quiz, here's a test of how well you have learned to get around in Microsoft's new operating system. Validate what you already know or use the quiz to learn new tips and tricks that will make climbing the learning curve for the platform less painful. Keep track of your answers and check your score at the end to see how well you did. 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. Berners-Lee, MIT's Clark offer glimpses into the future of the Internet Sir Tim Berners-Lee, speaking at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., Tuesday night with MIT Senior Research Scientist David Clark, said that participation in the information society must be regarded as a right, not a privilege. Read More Mojix extends its wide-area RFID product for enterprises Mojix has released a new version of its wide-area RFID tag reading product, now capable of reading tags 600 or more feet away. Read More ISOC: IPv6 is the new normal for the Internet IPv6 is the new normal for the Internet. So claims the Internet Society (ISOC) as it sums up the early results of its World IPv6 Launch Day held on Wednesday. Read More New Federal Mobile IT Strategy Must Address Security As the White House rolls out an agenda to open and optimize government data for mobile devices and accelerate use of smartphones and tablets across departments and agencies, security expert warns that federal CIOs must address an array of vulnerabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey SMB Disaster Prepardness Survey which measured the attitudes and practices of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and their customers toward disaster preparedness. The survey findings show that though SMBs are at risk, they are still not making disaster preparedness a priority until they experience a disaster or data loss. Read Now! Microsoft developing Hyper-V support for OpenStack Microsoft is attempting to reintegrate support for Hyper-V back into OpenStack, months after the open source cloud-building project dropped support for the hypervisor in its latest release. Read More California's budget crisis sparks controversial 'BYOD' plan to save money The state of California's staggering budget problems -- now an estimated $16 billion shortfall -- have put Chris Cruz, deputy director and chief information officer at the state's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), in a tough situation. Because of the state's ongoing fiscal crisis, he, like other agency managers, last year was told to cut use of state-issued cellphones by 50% as a cost-saving measure. Cruz decided one way to hold down costs at DHCS, which was using BlackBerries, was to have agency employees use their own smartphones instead -- without any subsidy. Read More DARPA wants electronics with radically novel liquid cooling technology With increased electronic minituriztion and the density of the chips running such devices heat is a mortal enemy for the power and scalability of such systems. Read More CIOs: Don't Let Microsoft's Marketing Drumbeat Drown Out Priorities Microsoft is in the midst of a marketing storm for product launches later this year. While CIOs shouldn't be seduced into thinking they need Windows 8 and Office 15 right away, planning for them may help clarify what your company really needs. Read More
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