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	Chinese media attack Cisco Striking back at the recent backlash against homies Huawei and ZTE, China's state media has taken to bashing Cisco and the US for what it alleges are conspiracies to attack Chinese competitors and compromise the country's network infrastructure. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: APC by Schneider Electric Deploy your IT space with speed, not complexity Protect your IT system uptime easily your IT deployed with APC by Schneider Electric InfraStruxure™ solutions. Our simple, adaptable, and manageable all-in-one physical infrastructure is designed as an easy-to-deploy system to allow for flexible management and physical IT deployment and, by extension, system uptime. Make the most of your IT space! Download our top three solution guides today and enter to win an iPad® 2! 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WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! The Best Tech Investment I Never Made: Four CIOs' Tales A few years ago, when Bill Weeks was CIO at a leasing company, a big vendor pitched some software intended to manage leasing throughout Europe. Weeks was skeptical. "We noticed that half the stuff they were showing us was PowerPoint slides and not actual functionality," he says. "We decided it wasn't strong enough to run a business on." Read More 5 great map apps for iOS 6 Traveling for the holidays? No need to wait for Google Maps to hit the App Store. Available for iOS 6 right now, three of these GPS navigation apps provide excellent spoken turn-by-turn directions, and two go beyond Google's and all other map apps. Read More Amazon Data Pipeline promises to ease management of data stored in multiple locations Amazon Web Services today launched Data Pipeline, a new tool designed to make it easier for users to integrate data stored in multiple disparate spots to manage and analyze it. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now Sprint to charge users of Nextel network an extra $10 per month Showing that it's serious about quickly phasing out its venerable iDEN network and traditional push-to-talk service, Sprint Nextel now plans to charge all subscribers on that system an extra US$10 per month beginning Jan. 1. Read More Probe finds U.S. e-health program lacks oversight Federal investigator's assessment of the Medicare eHealth records program, shows a lack of fiscal oversight. Read More Questioning Microsoft's relevance is nonsense Over the last few years, Microsoft has been bombarded from nearly every direction. Whether it be the vicious assault from Apple and iOS, the unstoppable force that is Google, or the ever-increasing array of quality open-source operating systems and applications, it seems Microsoft is in a constant battle for its life on multiple fronts. I may be dramaticizing a bit, but all of that is true—no doubt... Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Universities Face Big Data Test Big Data will help university stakeholders make better-informed decisions across the board, from student recruitment to day-to-day operations. To carry that Big Data, Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networks are stepping up to help institutions build flexible and resilient network topologies. Learn more. Microsoft Surface RT or Surface Pro? Microsoft announced the pricing and a release date for their Windows 8 Surface Pro tablet today, so the question is, do you get a Surface RT now, or wait a few weeks to get the Surface Pro. Read More Security Analytics Is In Fact A Big Data Problem At the 2012 RSA Security Conference, ESG participated on a panel of experts to discuss whether security analytics would soon be considered "big data." ESG and the other panelists agreed that this intersection was coming, we just weren't sure of the timing. Were we right? ESG recently completed research project to find out. As part of this effort, ESG surveyed 257 security professionals working... Read More Microsoft buys a starring role for its Surface tablet on TV's 'Suburgatory' Last night Microsoft spent what must have been a healthy chunk of the rumored $1 billion marketing budget for its Windows 8 Surface tablets with one of the most comprehensive product placements ever seen in a TV sit-com. The tablet was actually written into the script of ABC's "Suburgatory" as the love interest for the lead character, Tessa, who at one point refers to the device as "sexy" and "the... Read More INSIDER Computerworld's Salary Survey and Best Places to Work We asked, and you answered. As our thank-you, here are two of our signature research pieces for you to download and share among friends and colleagues. Read More Windows 8 Video Roundup Check out features, new hardware from Microsoft and partners Read More
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