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	Country's largest 4-year university expels Cisco, saves $100 million A decision to oust Cisco in favor of Alcatel-Lucent is saving California State University $100 million. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle and Intel Take Complexity Out of a Database Build November 8th, 2012 11 AM PST/ 2 PM EST Attend this Webcast to hear customer stories and discover how the Oracle Database Appliance increases ROI by reducing capital and operational expenses. Learn More In this Issue Cisco network really was $100 million more Ciscogate IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips How to Use a Moneyball Approach to Build a Better IT Team Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 ORNL boosts U.S. supercomputing power with 20-petaflop Titan Hundreds greet Apple's new store in Palo Alto RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Brocade Communications View Now: Brocade Analyst and Technology Day 2012 Discover the latest innovations from Brocade–and take a significant step toward radically simplified networking. Now you can see for yourself what has the media and industry experts talking by viewing an on-demand version of Brocade Analyst and Technology Day 2012. Click to continue Cisco network really was $100 million more The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network that we wrote about earlier this week was based on an identical number of switches and routers in various configurations. Read More Ciscogate Are you a California taxpayer? If so, are you disturbed by the claims that San Jose-based Cisco Systems attempted to charge you $100 million more than its competitors for a computer network for your state university system? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. Read More How to Use a Moneyball Approach to Build a Better IT Team If you aren't familiar with the term Moneyball, it originates with the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (and his mentor Sandy Alderson). The Moneyball method helped Oakland build a playoff baseball team on a smaller budget by relying on statistical analysis to acquire new players. When it came to baseball talent, Oakland knew it could never financially go head to head with the biggest teams in major league baseball, so the team started using an unheard of method in baseball, the Sabermetric principles. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Taking the Leap to Virtualization Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization offers dramatic benefits for midsize companies, including efficiency, cost savings, and increased reliability and performance. Read Now! Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 If some of the top 10 strategic technology trends going into 2013 look familiar it's because quite a few -- like cloud computing and mobile trends -- have been around for awhile but are now either morphing or changing in ways that will continue to impact IT in the next year. Read More ORNL boosts U.S. supercomputing power with 20-petaflop Titan The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan, which the lab hopes will give the U.S. an edge over China and Japan in the race to build the world's fastest computers. Read More Hundreds greet Apple's new store in Palo Alto A queue of several hundred people, snaking around the block, greeted Apple's new store in Palo Alto, California, on Saturday morning. Read More
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