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Microsoft hopes to lure users away from VMware with new migration tool Microsoft's free Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool is now available for download. The tool is used to convert virtual machines that today run on VMware products into a format compatible with Microsoft's own virtualization environment, Hyper-V, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Read More Hottest Google Android news and rumors for the week ending Oct. 19 It's always fun when you have a good idea of how the weekly Android roundup is going to look, and then Google throws something at you late and you get to completely restructure it. Read More Cloud startup gets cues from Amazon, Google and OpenStack to drive private cloud OpenStack startup Cloudscaling says that for true interoperability in a hybrid cloud, it's not enough to just have API compatibility between your private and public cloud. It really helps for the fundamental architecture of the two to be analogous. Read More INSIDER How to find (and hire) big data pros Staffing shortages are holding back companies ready to dive into big data. Here are three ways they're coping with the talent gap. Insider (registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. Hybrid hard drives: How they work and why they matter An SSD can read and write data many times faster than the best mechanical hard drive. On the downside, flash memory is many times more expensive than the innards of a typical hard drive, so manufacturers have limited their SSD capacities to hit reasonable price points: A 128GB SSD costs about $130, and for that same price tag, you can buy a 3.5-inch desktop hard drive that delivers 2TB of storage, or a 2.5-inch laptop drive that provides 1TB of storage. Read More F5 boosts capacity, transaction capabilities of its application delivery hardware F5 Networks this week debuted the 4200v version of its BIG-IP line of application delivery controllers -- specialized hardware designed to help lessen the load imposed on network-based services -- significantly bolstering the transaction handling and capacity over its current high-end box. Read More 10 Best Office 2013 Features, According to Microsoft CIO.com asked the team behind Microsoft Office 2013 to highlight the 10 new features in the new Office suite that stand out the most. Here they are. Read More Brocade lands a big Cisco fish Brocade has landed a rather big fish in its pond: David Meyer, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco has jumped to the data center rival to serve as service provider CTO and chief scientist. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Optimizing Data Center Infrastructure IDC's proven ROI methodology makes the business case, with quantifiable financial benefits, to refresh data center systems infrastructure. Learn more Firewalls don't cut it anymore as the first line of defense Eight major U.S. banks were recently brought to their knees by daylong DDoS attacks. Experts say these types of attacks are on the rise, and every business or agency with a Web presence is vulnerable. A new first line of defense is needed -- one that sits in front of the firewall. Read More Are You Ready For A Cloud Security Officer? GRC has always been a solution for big companies. Governance, Risk and Compliance pulls together lots of disparate data and seeks to give a broader picture of an organizations Risk posture, where it stands on compliance with various rules and regulations and its own thresholds for security. The problem is putting all of that together is a big job that only a big company could handle. Now TraceCSO... Read More Ubuntu 12.10 review: Quantal Quetzal is quite adequate Let's cut right to the chase: Ubuntu 12.10 is a totally, 100%, utterly, completely acceptable release. It has some new features. It has some bug fixes. In almost every way, it is very, very similar to Ubuntu 12.04 - which makes a great deal of sense, considering that the two releases are only six months apart. Over the next few days you are going to read a number of articles on this wonderful internet... Read More Is Qualcomm the New AMD? Or the Next Intel? With the news that Qualcomm will take over the CES keynote spot previously held by Microsoft, it really became clear what a dominant player the company has become. Quietly, while no one was paying attention, it's become the second-most important semiconductor maker in the U.S. I didn't attend the Intel Developer Forum, but some reports out of the show presented an interesting take on things from people... Read More Why the Government's Cybersecurity Plan Will End in Catastrophe The Department of Defense wants access to private computer systems in the name of cybersecurity. In addition to being a privacy nightmare, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle says a centralized information sharing system will actually make the United States more susceptible to cyber attacks and suggests an alternate approach to cybersecurity. Read More
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