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	15 amazing tech feats and world records Not to be outdone by athletes at this summer's Olympic games, techies have been setting some world records of their own of late. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: RIM Introducing BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion Easily manage and secure mobile device deployments with BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion. From a single interface, manage BlackBerry® smartphones, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and devices that use the iOS® and Android™ operating systems. Put an end to mobile chaos. Learn more at blackberry.com/mobilefusion In this Issue Java developer most difficult tech job to fill: survey Techie talks about life of lies ... and recurring need to leave Report: Maritz out as VMware CEO Raspberry Pi flies off shelves as mass orders roll in 2 days left to take our disaster preparedness survey Datapipe launches largest CloudStack deployment Perfect storm for managed service, co-lo and cloud industries NSA Whistleblower Drake: You're automatically suspicious until proved otherwise Visual tour: Microsoft Office 2013 beta What really impacts application performance over the WAN What Microsoft did right during its 'lost decade' Office 2013/365 may be Microsoft's most pervasive software package yet How to Build a Data Protection Plan That Ensures Application Recovery RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant remote support with LogMeIn Rescue With LogMeIn Rescue, you can start a support session in just 60 seconds. Connect 24/7 to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets. You'll get in, solve the problem and save the day without ever leaving your desk. Try it free today. Java developer most difficult tech job to fill: survey Java developers remain the most difficult tech pros to land, followed by mobile developers, .NET developers and software developers, according to new data from Dice.com. Read More Techie talks about life of lies ... and recurring need to leave Have you ever worked with a programmer or an engineer who one day just up and disappeared? No notice, no good-byes, no contact information, nothing. Poof, gone. Never to be seen again, even by his friends and family. Read More Report: Maritz out as VMware CEO A flurry of reports indicates that Paul Maritz is no longer the CEO of VMware and that the virtualization company may spin out its Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering as a separate company. Read More Raspberry Pi flies off shelves as mass orders roll in The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that its credit card-sized flagship device has become generally available, and that strict order caps -- which had limited the small computer's usage -- have been lifted. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Lower Costs of Your Product Lifecycle Management This paper includes sizing guidelines with recommended configurations for small, medium, and large installations along with test results and best practices for configuring the environment to optimize performance and reliability on Sun x86 servers from Oracle. Learn More! 2 days left to take our disaster preparedness survey Do you have a disaster preparedness and response plan in place? How often do you update it? Please take Network World's confidential survey and let us know. (SolarWinds is giving away five $50 Amazon gift cards, chosen at random from those who complete the survey.) Read More Datapipe launches largest CloudStack deployment Managed hosting and cloud computing provider Datapipe has launched the largest geographic deployment of an Apache CloudStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, the company says. Read More Perfect storm for managed service, co-lo and cloud industries Even with the cloud computing market growing at more than double the pace of the managed service and colocation industries, analyst Philbert Shih of Structure Research told a conference of hosting providers Monday that their sector is still well poised for growth into the future. Read More NSA Whistleblower Drake: You're automatically suspicious until proved otherwise Continuing in the theme of what NSA whistleblowers have to say about Americans under mass surveillance, such as William Binney's claim that the NSA has dossiers on nearly every U.S. citizen, we'll take a look at another former NSA official, Thomas A. 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. Visual tour: Microsoft Office 2013 beta Microsoft has released a beta version of its upcoming Office 2013 suite. We take a tour of the revamped interface and the most useful new features. Read More What really impacts application performance over the WAN Read More What Microsoft did right during its 'lost decade' This will be my final blog post on the Vanity Fair article as I'm as tired of it, as you probably are. Writer Kurt Eichenwald exposed quite a bit of failures within his article on Microsoft's "lost decade," but he seems to have missed out on some obvious successes, too. Many of the complaints – stack ranking, internal politics, crippling bureaucracy, benefit cuts – could easily have been gleaned... Read More Office 2013/365 may be Microsoft's most pervasive software package yet With the help of Kurt DelBene, president of Microsoft's Office Division, CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Office 2013 and the latest iterations of Office 365 at a press conference in San Francisco yesterday. Unsurprisingly, the next versions of Office have taken on the same flavor as Windows 8, with streamlined, uncluttered interfaces and deep integration with the cloud and social media. Interface tweaks... Read More How to Build a Data Protection Plan That Ensures Application Recovery When it comes to data protection, organizations are demanding faster recovery times than ever before. Achieving rapid recovery requires a plan that focuses on applications, not just data and servers. Read More
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