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	Apple unveils iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad On Tuesday, just six months after unveiling the third-generation iPad, Apple unveiled the long-rumored iPad mini along with a fourth-generation of the standard model. Despite the 100 million iPads Apple sold in just 2.5 years, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, "we're not taking our foot off the gas." Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! In this Issue Baddest Botnets of 2012 Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event Why Cisco should buy Citrix Seems that balky Amazon data center cries wolf, too Gizmo-geddon: The coming big week of new gadgets AMD Piledriver CPUs hit the market Presidential debate disappointing from cybersecurity perspective? Land O'Lakes turns to cloud for service desk The Four Freedoms of Free Software are broken, Part 0 Big Brother comes to BitTorrent Dell's $499 XPS 10 matches price of Microsoft's Surface tablet '2013 is going to be ugly' for Microsoft as it shifts to Windows 8, Forrester predicts Windows 8: Already mastered by a 3-year-old WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks New Networking Requirements for BYOD BYOD is changing the way IT addresses network access security. It requires secure onboarding of new devices, policy enforcement, and profiling. Read the benefits and considerations with BYOD, and how to deploy a unified access management solution for any wireless, wired or VPN network. Read now. Baddest Botnets of 2012 According to security firm Kindsight, these are the Top Ten Worst Botnets this year. Read More Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event Amazon Web Services has almost fully recovered from a more than 12-hour event that appears to have started by only impacting a small number of customers but quickly snowballed into a larger issue that took down major sites including Reddit, Imgur and others yesterday. Read More Why Cisco should buy Citrix Earlier this week Cisco and Citrix made some noise when they announced an expanded partnership. The partnership brings together the market leader in networking and data center infrastructure and combines it with the market leader in desktop virtualization. The expanded partnership should be a "win-win-win" for both organizations and their customers, as the two companies can bring their respective strengths... Read More Seems that balky Amazon data center cries wolf, too Yesterday's recurrence of reliability issues at the Northern Virginia facility of Amazon Web Services prompted one commenter on Reddit to facetiously suggest that the company "should burn that datacenter to the ground. It's cursed." Which elicited this reply: 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 Gizmo-geddon: The coming big week of new gadgets A look at the upcoming wave of new mobile devices from Apple, Google and Microsoft Read More AMD Piledriver CPUs hit the market AMD has announced that processors based on its much-anticipated Piledriver architecture are now available to the public, in a move that marks the company's competitive return to the world of high-end desktop PCs. Read More Presidential debate disappointing from cybersecurity perspective? In the third and final presidential debate, from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, the focus was supposed to be on foreign policy. When talking national security, about the military and foreign policy, it seemed like a great time to bring up cyberspace as the fifth domain for cyber-warfare and actual cyberwar, cybersecurity and cyber-weapons. Read More Land O'Lakes turns to cloud for service desk Many IT organizations have neglected their help or service desks for years. But Land O'Lakes Inc. is going in a different direction, moving its help desk to ServiceNow, a cloud-based service. 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. The Four Freedoms of Free Software are broken, Part 0 "Free Software" (with a capital "F"), and the GPL are core components of the Linux - and broader Open Source - world. In order for software to qualify as being "Free," it must adhere to a list of four criteria - "The 4 Freedoms." Unfortunately, those four "Freedoms" suffer from some serious logic problems that any good compiler would throw an error on. Or, in some cases, result in a kernel... Read More Big Brother comes to BitTorrent Lots of people download movies and TV episodes off the various BitTorrent networks. That's always been asking for trouble, but it's about to become a lot more dangerous. Read More Dell's $499 XPS 10 matches price of Microsoft's Surface tablet Dell on Tuesday said its XPS 10 tablet with Windows RT will start at US$499, matching the price of Microsoft's Surface tablet that became available last week. Read More '2013 is going to be ugly' for Microsoft as it shifts to Windows 8, Forrester predicts As Microsoft launches Windows 8, and with it, an attempt to stabilize a precipitous decline in its share of operating systems for 'personal devices, 2013 is going to be a tough, very tough year, research firm Forrester said today. Read More Windows 8: Already mastered by a 3-year-old Meet Julian, the three-year-old who has mastered Windows 8 and in turn rebutted the many complaints that Microsoft's newest operating system strays too far from the Windows on which computer users were raised for widespread adoption. Read More
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