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	12 red hot cloud computing companies to watch While big-name players such as Amazon, Google, IBM, Verizon and VMware sit atop the burgeoning cloud computing market, an entire ecosystem of early stage startups are looking to stake their claim, too. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: HP Take your big ideas off the back burner With HP Converged Infrastructure solutions powered by Intel®, you can spend over 70% of your time and IT budget on innovation rather than operations.* Servers, storage, networking, security, and management software all work together to accelerate IT, reduce application provisioning time by 75%, and get you ready for the cloud. Click to continue In this Issue Most wild, wacky & wonderful Wi-Fi installations Nokia unveils new Lumia smartphones with Windows Phone 8 Desktop Linux is dead? I thought it was thriving 58% say Doodles are the glue that keeps them on Google? Really? Financial firm replaces Microsoft with VMware virtualization technology INSIDER Desktop Virtualization Cuts Costs and Improves Social Services Windows Server 2012 embraces the data center Android: Everyone's favorite new malware target Behind the scenes with Samsung's Chinese factory girls Did AntiSec snag Apple UDID list from FBI laptop via Java 0day exploit? 10 Tech Expenses Your Business Can Do Without WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Delivering Exceptional Applciation Experience Enterprises can achieve customer advantage by monitoring the quality and timeliness of mission-critical applications. Read this whitepaper to learn how with CA Technologies Application Performance Management solutions. Learn More Most wild, wacky & wonderful Wi-Fi installations RF's most odd, unusual, cool, intriguing network applications for work, fashion, health and play Read More Nokia unveils new Lumia smartphones with Windows Phone 8 Nokia on Wednesday showed off the new Lumia 920 smartphone, the company's first device running Microsoft's latest Windows Phone 8 OS. Read More Desktop Linux is dead? I thought it was thriving With all the brouhaha going around about Desktop Linux being "dead" (see this post from Miguel de Icaza – of Gnome and Mono fame – that sparked this latest round of "the sky is falling on Linux" talk) I thought now would be a great time to talk about one of the many ways that Linux is not only alive, but is downright thriving. We all know that Linux desktops make great "internet" workstations.... Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat The Economics of Scale-Out Storage Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution. Learn More 58% say Doodles are the glue that keeps them on Google? Really? Let's be clear about what's being contended here: Responding to a poll by a British logo company, 58% of 2,225 American Google users aged 18 to 35 "said it was the Doodle novelty that prevented them from using other search engines and made them stick with Google." So we're not talking about the public at large, but rather a subset of a group of younger Google users who are interested enough in Google... Read More Financial firm replaces Microsoft with VMware virtualization technology From the moment he walked in the door at BancVue in December 2010, Sunny Nair knew he wanted to move the financial services software company from Microsoft's Hyper-V to VMware's virtualization technology. Read More INSIDER Desktop Virtualization Cuts Costs and Improves Social Services Gary Bateman, CIO of Iowa Workforce Development, was able to turn a budget desktop virtualization project into a hugely successful expansion of state services for the unemployed--and he lowered operating costs to boot. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Top Considerations When Choosing an ADC The Application Delivery Controller (ADC) chosen as the foundation for a flexible, efficient application delivery strategy can significantly affect network performance, availability, and security while providing opportunities to add business value. Learn More! Windows Server 2012 embraces the data center Microsoft has taken its server OS a giant step forward with Tuesday's release of Windows Server 2012, making this version the first that can be controlled remotely so it is more suitable for data centers. Read More Android: Everyone's favorite new malware target Year-over-year smartphones exploits have exploded. McAfee released its Threats Report for the second quarter of 2012 [PDF] today, reporting dramatic year-over-year growth of mobile malware and citing Android as the favored target of black hat mobile hackers. Read More Behind the scenes with Samsung's Chinese factory girls Like many her age, 19-year-old Zhao Caixia left her hometown in the Chinese province of Gansu to see the world.A That world now revolves around a Samsung factory in the Chinese city of Tianjin, where she spends eight to 12 hours a day inspecting cameras before they're shipped out. Read More Did AntiSec snag Apple UDID list from FBI laptop via Java 0day exploit? Is the FBI tracking 12,367,232 Apple device users? It is according to AntiSec hackers who allegedly snagged the Apple device ID list from an FBI computer and then dumped the redacted digital dirt on one million to prove it. Read More 10 Tech Expenses Your Business Can Do Without Improve your bottom line by dumping these technological artifacts Read More
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