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	Cisco CEO John Chambers hints at retirement Cisco CEO John Chambers says he may retire in two to four years and named several executives who could succeed him, according to Bloomberg. Read More WHITE PAPER: Endace Ltd. Pssst! Your NOC Is Flying Blind How long did it take you to get a permanent fix for your last network problem? If your answer is "Too long!" or "We never did get one!" your organization is leaking real money in network and business downtime. But you can stem the flow. View Now In this Issue Get started with Hadoop: Free training resources from Cloudera, MapR and more Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's pay jumps 24% to $96 million Dell debuts new KACE management appliance 10 (FREE!) Microsoft tools to make life easier Planes, trains, and automobiles: The cutting edge of technology on the go Canonical exec: We're not worried about VMware joining OpenStack Apple warns iCloud users of looming storage loss Big data analytics computing requires a 'maverick fabric' network Inside Microsoft botnet takedowns 12 free cloud storage options RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Voice Transformation: Taking the First Steps Voice has been - and will continue to be - a foundational component in business communications. But the aging, disconnected voice infrastructures of today are doing more than just impeding productivity, they're impeding progress. Find out in this AT&T article how to transform voice communication in your enterprise today. Click Here Get started with Hadoop: Free training resources from Cloudera, MapR and more Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you're not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are also free resources that can get a newcomer started on Hadoop or broaden a veteran's skills. Read More Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's pay jumps 24% to $96 million One of Oracle's top executives made more money than Larry Ellison last year, but for fiscal 2012, the CEO is back on top of the pay rankings with a package valued at a whopping $96 million. Read More Dell debuts new KACE management appliance Dell announced the latest product in its line of KACE management appliances Tuesday, highlighting the new KACE K1000's support for multiple new platforms, new APIs, and streamlining of common tasks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More 10 (FREE!) Microsoft tools to make life easier Tools that secure, automate, pinch pennies - including some for Windows 8. Read More Planes, trains, and automobiles: The cutting edge of technology on the go The urge to climb the next hill and see what's over the horizon is as old as human existence. To seek out strange new resorts and new souvenirs: that is the voyage that we all seek to undertake, with hopefully a nice, sandy beach at the destination. Read More Canonical exec: We're not worried about VMware joining OpenStack While the recent addition of VMware to the OpenStack Foundation as a gold member troubled some in the community - including a new member of the board of directors - Canonical cloud vice president Kyle MacDonald says that his company was an enthusiastic backer of the move. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Release 5.0 Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provides the industry's most scalable, highest performance WAN optimization solution. Cisco WAAS is able to improve end user experience and reduce bandwidth for key applications. Learn more. Apple warns iCloud users of looming storage loss Apple on Monday began reminding some iCloud users that they will soon lose the 20GB of free storage they'd received when they migrated from MobileMe. Read More Big data analytics computing requires a 'maverick fabric' network The high-performance computing (HPC) scientific/academic sector is accustomed to using commodity server and storage clusters to deliver massive processing power, but comparable large-scale cluster deployments are now found in the high-end enterprise as well. Read More Inside Microsoft botnet takedowns When Microsoft took extraordinary steps earlier this month to disrupt the Nitol botnet it was the fifth time its Digital Crimes Unit had taken action against such threats, each time expanding its technical and legal toolkit for making it harder and more expensive to run cybercrime enterprises. Read More 12 free cloud storage options With all the public cloud storage offerings on the market today, many vendors just want customers to sign up for their services. So, in return for a new account, many offer free cloud storage. Read More
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