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	'The Hobbit 2.0' -- How mobile technology would improve J. R. R. Tolkien's famous work GPS, real-time data, a website, wireless networks would make life in 'The Hobbit' so much easier 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! In this Issue Holiday Gifts for Women IT Executives Cisco a mystery investor in storage company? iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 14 IT hiring on the rise, CIOs say Holiday lights go techie 10 most successful open source projects of 2012 Amazon makes it easier to track costs, usage in its cloud HP brings cloud economics to networking with a pay-per-use model In honor of 'The Hobbit' opening Nine out of ten health care organizations breached for 7B in losses? I don't think so Google Plus bolsters photo, hangout features YEAR END: 2012 Future Tech Review WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Managing Application Performance and Availability A review of virtualized application performance characteristics and three ways to deploy the capabilities of a Coyote Point an Equalizer ADC to significantly enhance the availability and performance of virtualized applications. View Now Holiday Gifts for Women IT Executives What do busy women IT executives want this holiday season? If you don't know where to begin, no worries. CIO.com surfed the web and asked dozens of executives for their recommendations and came up with these 11 gifts that offer both style and function. Read More Cisco a mystery investor in storage company? TechCrunch is reporting that Cisco is the mysterious "unnamed Silicon Valley industry titan" that contributed to a $31 million funding round for Whiptail, a flash storage array company. Cisco's total investment was not available and Cisco executives did not respond to TechCrunch's request for comment. Read More iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 14 The iOSphere is the only virtual place where reality imitates fantasy. Read More IT hiring on the rise, CIOs say Nearly twice as many CIOs are planning to expand their IT departments in the coming quarter than were three months ago, according to Robert Half Technology. 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! Holiday lights go techie It's not just throw out a bunch of lights and watch them shine in the nighttime. You've got to set them to music... all with the help of technology. Check out just a few. Read More 10 most successful open source projects of 2012 Read More Amazon makes it easier to track costs, usage in its cloud Somewhat undercutting a budding ecosystem of vendors that provide similar services, Amazon Web Services today announced increased features for customers to track their usage of AWS public cloud resources. Read More HP brings cloud economics to networking with a pay-per-use model You've heard of software as a service, infrastructure as a service and even security as a service. Now there is LAN as a service, a business model that lets you acquire a modern network infrastructure and pay only for the ports you use. 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I don't think so The Ponemon Institute just released their third annual "Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security." Sponsored by IDexperts, the survey and report looks at data breaches in the health care industry. As in years past, the report rings up some pretty impressive statistics. For instance 94% of health care organizations had a data breach in the last year, 45% had more than 5 data breaches. Read... Read More Google Plus bolsters photo, hangout features Google Plus got a grand total of 24 new features in an update released today, along with new mobile app versions for both Android and iOS devices. Read More YEAR END: 2012 Future Tech Review YEAR END: 2012 Future Tech Review 2012, another year when engineers helped the forward march of high-tech. Here's a look at some of the futuristic tech we saw during the year. From: networkworld Views: 11 0 ratings Time: 03:36 More in Science & Technology Read More
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