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	Nine 'everything-as-a-service' (Xaas) companies to watch 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 Is EVERYTHING made in China? The cloud services explosion Do you know where your used Cisco is coming from? Advanced tech conflict: China's rare earth stranglehold Products of the week 8.13.12 LTE telephony finally off the ground, but take-up will be slow New EU law clamps down on electronic waste SDN revolution or evolution: Impact on the IT manager NSS Labs to offer security gear picks and pans EFF may resume monitoring terms of service ... and has company Businesses should pressure software vendors to meet new Microsoft encryption requirements IBM claims spintronics memory breakthrough WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Luminet The Cost of Insider Fraud and Abuse Examine different types of insider abuse, such as fraud and privacy breaches, and their cost to businesses. We also briefly describe the basic requirements for effective insider abuse monitoring, such as the need to monitor multiple types of systems and correlate events across those systems. Learn More! Is EVERYTHING made in China? can be astonishing the sheer amount of things that are Made in China. As you might expect, the country puts out all manner of electronics but there are myriad other products, from bioethanol fuel, sex dolls, LED readouts, airplanes and dumplings – just to name a few things. Here we take a look at a few of the interesting things Made in China: Read More The cloud services explosion If you follow cloud computing, you're no doubt familiar with software-as a service, typically associated with Salesforce.com, or infrastructure as a service, which was pioneered by Amazon.com. But how about CaaS, SECaaS, DaaS, MaaS and BaaS? Read More Do you know where your used Cisco is coming from? Read More Advanced tech conflict: China's rare earth stranglehold The battle over access to rare earth materials, critical components of all manner of advanced technologies from smartphones and computers to aircraft and cars, raged again this week as the United States, Europe and Japan joined forces to challenge China's restrictions on exports of the metals. The crux of the situation: China controls some 95% of the world's rare earth materials and sets prices and access to the materials willy-nilly and of course has threatened to cut off access to the stuff at the drop of a hat. The U.S. and Australia have begun mining rare earth materials but they are years away from equaling China's production. So the battle rages. Here's a look at the conflict. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Proven Techniques to Cope with Packet Loss If you have a WAN link with an RTT of 100 ms and packet loss of 1% the throughput is virtually nil. Learn how to overcome this issue in this paper that highlights: - Key WAN characteristics of out of order and lost packets - Packet loss impact on data replication - How MPLS statistics fool network professionals Learn more. Products of the week 8.13.12 Our roundup of intriguing new products, including Watchguard, AlertLogic and Sophos Read More LTE telephony finally off the ground, but take-up will be slow Last week saw the launch of the first commercial Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) services, but most operators are likely to take a cautious approach as they face technical and business challenges. Read More New EU law clamps down on electronic waste On Monday a new E.U. law that will required all large electronic retailers to take back old equipment came into force. Read More SDN revolution or evolution: Impact on the IT manager There has been a lot of hype concerning software defined networks (SDN) and OpenFlow. What does SDN mean for you, and how should enterprises prepare for the coming changes in network architectures? Read More 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. NSS Labs to offer security gear picks and pans NSS Labs, which tests security products, today introduced what it's calling the "Security Value Map," a graphical evaluation of security gear based on the relative merit of each product's technical and cost advantage. Read More EFF may resume monitoring terms of service ... and has company Dormant for a year now, an Electronic Frontier Foundation service dedicated to tracking changes in major website terms of service may "soon" reemerge in new form, says EFF. Meanwhile there's a separate effort under way to address the same issue: That issue being that precious few people bother to read terms of service before agreeing to them and fewer still are made aware when those terms change.... Read More Businesses should pressure software vendors to meet new Microsoft encryption requirements Businesses should start leaning on vendors now to upgrade applications that use less than 1024-bit encryption before it's too late. Read More IBM claims spintronics memory breakthrough In a paper to be published in the scientific journal Nature this week, IBM researchers claim to have had a huge breakthrough in spintronics, a technology that could significantly boost capacity and lower power use over today's memory and storage devices. Read More
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