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Avoid Common Packet Delivery Issues across the WAN
Packet loss is increasingly problematic for companies looking to lower DR costs by performing data replication over the WAN. This paper discusses the inaccuracies of measuring packet loss with ICMP (i.e. ping method) and explains how to mitigate this risk with proper packet loss measuring tools. Learn more.

What You Should Know About the iPhone SMS Spoof Attack
SMS text messaging is certainly not exclusive to Apple or its iconic iPhone smartphone. But, apparently there is something unique about the way Apple delivers SMS messages that makes the iPhone particularly vulnerable to spoofing or smishing (SMS phishing) attacks. Read More

Disney show disses Mickey Mouse open source as Goofy security risk
A new episode of Disney's Shake It Up teen show includes a segment in which a stereotypical nerd character castigates two fellow cast members for using open source code that let in a computer virus. Naturally, open source supporters have beaten up Disney over the anti-open source "propaganda." Read More

Read Eduardo Saverin's 2004 Facebook ad sales pitch
Artifacts of the highly dramatized and now-immortalized rise of Facebook from dorm-room extracurricular to leading global social network surfaced today, when Digiday published a copy of the company's first media kit, circa 2004. Read More


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Management Madness: How to Manage Mobile Devices
There are six major mobile operating systems in use now and each one offers its own set of security and management challenges. The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault will help you keep these devices secure on the corporate network with expert tips on management tools, endpoint security software, increasing application support and more. Learn More

Nexus 7 sales could hit 8M by year's end, analyst says
Google could sell between six million and eight million of its $199 Nexus 7 tablets by year's end, according to a new estimate. Read More

BYOD plan: Transportation firm goes down HTML5 road
Bulk-transport company Quality Distribution Inc. (QDI) is embracing HTML5 to further its goal of allowing employees, and eventually more of its trucker affiliates, to gain access to business applications through their own mobile devices, including Google Android phones and Apple iPhones. Read More

Windows Phone Expected to Pass BlackBerry in November
One down, two to go. Read More


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Send Less Data across the WAN
Because WAN deduplication works on all IP traffic, it plays a key role in a variety of IT initiatives including server consolidation, virtualization, and application delivery. Learn how this proven technology can dramatically improve the performance, reliability, and efficiency of data backup and recovery. Learn more.

Products of the week 8.20.12
Our roundup of intriguing new products Read More

Prepare for the era of the data center in a box
Start-up SimpliVity is the latest vendor to emerge from the development stage with an all-in-one array that performs all the functions of a complete IT stack with the addition of deduplication and data replication. More companies and products are preparing similar launches. Read More

Apple TV Rumors: A tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
I like my Apple TV a lot. To me, Apple TV was never as former Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, "just a hobby. Read More

Samsung compares its products to the iPhone, calls it a "Crisis of Design"
The ongoing Apple-Samsung litigation - which is slated to wrap up early next week - has given us a number of interesting peeks into the inner workings of two secretive companies. Apple, of course, alleges that Samsung, in an effort to remain competitive, was blatant in its efforts to copy the iPhone. Indeed, one of the more interesting documents to emerge at trial was an internal Samsung email which... Read More

How Much Should You Spend on CRM Software?
With most enterprise software, whether it's on premises or in the cloud, making the business case and determining the optimum investment are straightforward. Not so with CRM systems. Here are four reasons why. Read More



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