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	OpenStack: We can tell Amazon what to do, instead of the other way around Organizers of the OpenStack Design Summit had a slight problem when the conference got underway in earnest this week. More than 1,000 people had registered for the event, but more than 1,400 actually showed up. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Checkpoint Are you prepared for a denial of service attack? Today, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks pose the greatest risk to organizations. With Check Point DDoS Protector™, organizations canextend their security perimeter, blocking all major attack types such as network floods, server floods, application layer DoS attacks, as well as low-and-slow attacks. Download this white paper "DoS Attacks Response Planning and Mitigation" to learn about counter-measures and technologies that can protect your organization>> In this Issue 10 open source projects that power the cloud Citrix offers common management console with first step of Project Avalon The Huawei Controversy – The Rest of the Argument Gartner: Big Data to Drive $34 Billion of IT Spending in 2013 Kaspersky is developing a secure OS for industrial control FIRST LOOK: Windows RT Surface Tablet Microsoft runs out of $499 Surface RT for pre-orders Best Buy's in-house budget tablet to undercut the iPad, Android alternatives on price Busted! Forensic expert who recovered lurid SMS warns: Phone texts don't die, they hide Kicking the Xobni Habit How to Set Up a Business-Grade Wi-Fi Network INSIDER Storage systems get supersized 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 open source projects that power the cloud Read More Citrix offers common management console with first step of Project Avalon Citrix Systems has started to detail the future of Windows desktops and applications in its virtual environments with tech previews of Excalibur and Merlin, the first versions of its Project Avalon. Read More The Huawei Controversy – The Rest of the Argument I recently published a longer-than-usual column at informationweek.com on the recent government report urging the masses not to buy anything from Huawei (as well as ZTE) on the grounds that such equipment might be fronting intelligence (or worse) efforts underway within the government and/or military of China. Read More Gartner: Big Data to Drive $34 Billion of IT Spending in 2013 Big data is forecast to drive $34 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2013, according to research firm Gartner, with the figure for 2012 standing at $28 billion. 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. Kaspersky is developing a secure OS for industrial control Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab is developing a secure operating system for industrial control systems, its chairman and CEO Eugene Kaspersky said on Tuesday. Read More FIRST LOOK: Windows RT Surface Tablet A broad screen, and that keyboard is like something you've never seen Read More Microsoft runs out of $499 Surface RT for pre-orders Microsoft has exhausted its initial supply of the lowest-priced Surface RT tablet, which now is backordered by three weeks. Read More Best Buy's in-house budget tablet to undercut the iPad, Android alternatives on price Best Buy is getting ready to release a 9.7-inch Android tablet under its Insignia store brand in less than a month - and a report from Reuters indicates that the device could sell for considerably less than most other products in its size class. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software 5 Steps for Executing your Windows 7 Migration If you haven't already completed the migration to Windows 7, you probably have scheduled a date for completion. Make that migration simpler by reading 5 Steps for Executing your Windows 7 Migration - Guidelines for Planning and Completing a Successful Windows 7 Migration. Read Now. Busted! Forensic expert who recovered lurid SMS warns: Phone texts don't die, they hide We've all deleted texts, but for those of you who might really not want anyone else to ever see them, then you might be interested in knowing that forensics experts say, "Phone texts don't die; they hide." And that "factory reset feature" won't delete SMS well enough to stop them from being recovered either. Read More Kicking the Xobni Habit Hi my name is Alan and I am an Xobni addict. I am clean now for 2 days. I am thrilled with the power breaking free has given my computer. I am amazed at how fast Outlook really is. I had no idea that Microsoft's Social Connector can do almost everything Xobni did without bringing my computer to a crawl. I am thrilled with how much more productive I am now. Read More How to Set Up a Business-Grade Wi-Fi Network Setting up a robust Wi-Fi network for your business doesn't have to be a nerve-wrecking experience. CIO.com looks at seven key factors you need to consider, including access points, frequency bands, network management and the forthcoming 802.11ac standard. Read More INSIDER Storage systems get supersized Old storage architectures with general-purpose controllers that service all the new functions along with the normal I/O workload won't be able to scale. Here's why storage systems will need to become full-scale storage computers. Insider (registration required) Read More
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