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In this Issue RIM announces first major US government trial for BlackBerry 10 Sprint confirms plan to buy rest of Clearwire for $2 billion INSIDER Cloudera CEO: We're taking Hadoop beyond MapReduce Ban on loud TV commercials takes effect today Dell software aims to automate mobile device management Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu winners as storage market weakens Oracle buys DataRaker for 'big data' analysis It's too soon to call Microsoft's Surface tablet a failure Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 Rackspace follows Amazon in beefing up its database tools Native Google Maps app for iOS goes live IT Departments Battle for Data Analytics Talent 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! RIM announces first major US government trial for BlackBerry 10 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will begin a pilot deployment of smartphones running Research In Motion's new BlackBerry 10 OS early next year. Read More Sprint confirms plan to buy rest of Clearwire for $2 billion Sprint today formally announced its plan to shell out $2.1 billion to buy the remaining 49% of Clearwire that it doesn't already own. The move gives Sprint direct access to Clearwire's extensive spectrum portfolio, just as the carrier is set to reap some $20 billion on cash from its acquisition by SoftBank. Read More INSIDER Cloudera CEO: We're taking Hadoop beyond MapReduce In an exclusive interview, the voluble CEO of Cloudera, Mike Olson, holds forth on the company's new Impala project and the boundless potential of Hadoop Read More Ban on loud TV commercials takes effect today Representing what may be the most popular act of Congress since the "Do Not Call" list, a law prohibiting broadcasters from cranking up the volume on TV commercials takes effect today. Loud commercials have been the No. 1 complaint logged by the FCC over the past decade. Read More WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more. Dell software aims to automate mobile device management To handle the explosion of mobile devices in the enterprise, Dell this week unveiled plans for a server designed to automate a wide range of mobile management jobs for mid-range business customers. Read More Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu winners as storage market weakens Growth in the storage market slowed down during the third quarter, but vendors such as Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu still had a good three months thanks in part to sales of high-end systems. Read More Oracle buys DataRaker for 'big data' analysis Oracle is planning to buy DataRaker in a move that will give it a cloud-based platform for analyzing data from smart meters used by energy utilities. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, weren't disclosed. Read More It's too soon to call Microsoft's Surface tablet a failure Just one day after a wealth management firm declared Microsoft was screwing up the potential of its new Surface tablet because of a lack of retail presence, Microsoft has opened the floodgates with new retail outlets. Now comes the real trick: getting customers to show up. 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! Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 These days, Cisco network administrators are a nation divided. Read More Rackspace follows Amazon in beefing up its database tools Following major announcements from Amazon Web Services in recent weeks around data warehousing and management, Rackspace today announced new capabilities for database hosting and management. Read More Native Google Maps app for iOS goes live Despite rumors that apple would leave Google's rumored maps app for iOS lingering in app approval purgatory, the app went live yesterday and should be a god send for anyone who has been less than thrilled with maps in iOS 6. Notably, Googles new maps app for iOS features turn by turn directions, something Google has only previously implemented in the Android version of the application. What's more,... Read More IT Departments Battle for Data Analytics Talent Few areas of the IT job market have seen the growth and disparity in supply and demand that the data analytics field has experienced. As big data continues to get bigger and the analytics field continues to mature, it's becoming a core part of business and the decision-making process. Competition for top analytic talent is going to be fierce as more companies enter the hiring fray. Read More
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