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	Cloupia acquisition shows Cisco's serious about cloud management This morning Cisco announced the intention to purchase privately held Cloupia for approximately $125 million in cash, adding to its long list of cloud-related acquisitions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Eliminate Architectural Limitations of WLANs Reduce the cost and complexity of wireless networks with cloud-enabled, distributed Wi-Fi and routing. By removing the architectural limitations of traditional WLANs, you can support identity-based access and enable delivery of mission-critical applications and services to any user, on any device, at any time without a single point of failure. Read now! In this Issue 10 Types of Tablet Users That Drive Us Nuts 30 years later: Imagine if the famous Harvard-Yale football game balloon prank was tried this Saturday Palo Alto Networks founder: Our competitors are on 'death row' $1.5 million iPad heist reported at JFK airport Better check your Skype password after hack is exposed Google set to collide with car industry Antivirus startup linked to infamous Chinese hacker Global manufacturer ditches underperforming IBM in favour of IaaS provider IBM offering $4 billion in credit through partners Can Windows 8 Give Developers What iOS and Android Lack? 10 new Windows 8 all-in-one PCs WHITE PAPER: Oracle Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds Consolidation can be achieved through server, operating system, and database consolidation, and the higher the consolidation density achieved, the greater the return on investment (ROI). This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models. Read More Now! 10 Types of Tablet Users That Drive Us Nuts Tablet PCs are valuable devices that can simplify and enhance our lives. But they also bring out the worst in some people. Here's a list of 10 stereotypical tablet users that amuse, annoy and frustrate us to no end. Read More 30 years later: Imagine if the famous Harvard-Yale football game balloon prank was tried this Saturday Even back in 1982, the astonishing emergence of a large black weather balloon from beneath the field during the annual Harvard-Yale football game was enough to have police officers drawing their guns. Today? SWAT teams and bomb squads would be the least of it. But before we go there and speculate further, here's a short video for those unfamiliar with the prank that was perpetrated by an MIT fraternity.... Read More Palo Alto Networks founder: Our competitors are on 'death row' Palo Alto Networks founder and CTO Nir Zuk took to the stage to deliver the closing keynote address at the company's first-ever user conference here by trumpeting his company's success in firewall innovation and what he described as his competitors' weak attempts to follow. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. 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! $1.5 million iPad heist reported at JFK airport Two thieves stole some $1.5 million in Apple iPad minis from a JFK airport cargo building, according to the New York Post. Read More Better check your Skype password after hack is exposed Better double-check your Skype account. Microsoft fixed the password reset function for Skype after a vulnerability came to light that allowed hackers to hijack accounts using just their victim's email address. RELATED: Skype blocks password resets after trivial account hijacking flaw made public Read More Google set to collide with car industry The pace of consumer electronic innovation has created a discontinuity in the automobile industry. The cause is the estimated 800 million smartphones and tablets that will be purchased in 2012 that have changed consumer expectations and behavior, raising the bar that automotive companies need to meet for in-vehicle-infotainment (IVI). RELATED: 20 cars that drive themselves Read More WEBCAST: CDW & Symantec A Simple Backup Solution Hear from real-world IT professionals about their experiences using Backup Exec 2012. See how they implemented their backup solutions, from simple backups to total overhauls, for both physical and virtual servers. Plus, discover what Backup Exec 2012 did to gain their trust for years to come. Learn More. Antivirus startup linked to infamous Chinese hacker Anvisoft, a Chinese antivirus startup, has been linked to an infamous hacker suspected of developing sophisticated malware used to siphon sensitive information from Defense Department contractors in 2006. Read More Global manufacturer ditches underperforming IBM in favour of IaaS provider Veyance Technologies, the exclusive manufacturer of Goodyear Engineered Products, has ditched its traditional outsourcing relationship with IBM after it failed to perform to acceptable service levels, and is in the process of moving its SAP applications to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Virtustream. Read More IBM offering $4 billion in credit through partners IBM is offering US$4 billion in new credit to customers through its partner channel, and has also developed a new mobile application to help them get financing quickly, the company announced Thursday. Read More Can Windows 8 Give Developers What iOS and Android Lack? Microsoft's future hinges on attracting developers to build Windows 8 apps. But by offering financial incentives, supporting a range of programming languages and allowing developers to write code once for multiple devices, those developers may soon follow. 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