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	10 of the most useful cloud databases Big data is becoming a big deal and cloud providers want to be the place where enterprises databases live. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Are you ready for cloud services? If you're thinking about cloud services for your organization, ask yourself this question: Are you ready? According to Forrester Research, Inc., that's the most important thing to consider before moving forward with your cloud initiatives. That's why we'd like to offer you a complimentary copy of the Forrester report: Assess Your Cloud Maturity. Get the report now to start planning your cloud services strategy. In this Issue INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Amid uproar, Instagram says it will not sell users' photos Holiday cooking brings major traffic spike to Allrecipes.com 7 Technologies Poised for Failure in 2013 Dell buying data-protection vendor Credant SANS NetWars tests cybersecurity pros against peers Airborne intelligence: U.S. Army building NextGen surveillance planes 9 IT Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2013 Java 7 Update 10 allows users to restrict the use of Java in browsers Salesforce.com ties Work.com performance management app to CRM app 15 (FREE!) security tools you should try 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! INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing. Read More Amid uproar, Instagram says it will not sell users' photos Instagram vowed on Tuesday to revise new proposed terms of service following a strong backlash from users worried that it would use their photos in advertisements without their permission. Read More Holiday cooking brings major traffic spike to Allrecipes.com It's the busy time of year for Allrecipes.com, which gets 700 million visitors annually, and to accommodate the surge of recipe-seekers, it's necessary to cook up some serious network changes in the data center. Read More WEBCAST: HP Storage in the Cloud Cloud will impact your storage environment. Hear what a HP Storage expert has to say. View Now! 7 Technologies Poised for Failure in 2013 Which technologies and products will be put out to pasture in 2013? Some are no-brainers, some others might say are poised for a comeback and a couple might surprise you. Read More Dell buying data-protection vendor Credant Dell has made a deal to acquire data-protection vendor Credant Technologies and plans to add the company's technology to its enterprise IT security offerings. Read More SANS NetWars tests cybersecurity pros against peers Organizers played "Eye of the Tiger" and "We are the Champions" over the loudspeakers as participants in the SANS Institute's NetWars Tournament of Champions sat down at their laptops and prepared for action. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Extend the Life of Your Storage Leveraging deduplication in backup environments yields significant advantages. The cost savings in reducing disk capacity requirements change the economics of disk-based backup. Read Now! Airborne intelligence: U.S. Army building NextGen surveillance planes In a Maryland laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Army scientists, engineers and program developers are working on the Army's next generation surveillance aircraft, the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS). This NextGen flying spy [PDF] is a "C-12 based, direct support, manned airborne intelligence collection, processing, and targeting support system. Read More 9 IT Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2013 This year the IT services industry saw a mixed bag of merger and acquisition activity (and regret), a more globally dispersed marketplace, increased focus on business outcomes, and--of course--more cloud build-up (and disappointment) than you could shake a stick at. Read More Java 7 Update 10 allows users to restrict the use of Java in browsers A recent Java 7 update allows users to completely prevent Java applications from running inside browsers or to restrict how Web-based Java content is handled by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) client. These features will benefit security-conscious users, but companies still have to find methods of isolating older Java versions, security experts say. 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