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In this Issue Apple vs. The World: Apple's definitive legal battles EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers Backed by $48M, startup Plexxi unveils SDN wares The Best Tablets for the Holidays INSIDER The race toward compliance is 'not optimal' Avaya virtualizes UC Aura platform iPhone 5s rear housing photos emerge Motorola streamlines Wi-Fi access with social networking accounts HP makes public cloud service official; bolsters hypervisor support Google Play now lets businesses host their own app stores Tablet sales skyrocketing, driven by iPad mini, Android demand Google I/O 2013 dates set for May 15-17 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! Apple vs. The World: Apple's definitive legal battles Here you'll find a list of some of the most important, influential, notable, and even downright silly legal battles that Apple has been involved in since first forming in 1976. Read More EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. Read More Backed by $48M, startup Plexxi unveils SDN wares SDN startup Plexxi this week unveiled its products, which attempt to re-engineer data center networks for new applications and cloud traffic patterns. Read More The Best Tablets for the Holidays The tablet market is awash with iOS, Android and Windows 8 models that come in different sizes and with different features, specs and prices. How do you decide? Start with our Holiday 2012 Tablet Buying Guide, which highlights the top picks in 13 categories. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Unified Threat Management: A Better Approach to Security In this Webcast you will learn how Unified Threat Management (UTM) combines firewall, IPS, Web filtering, antivirus and more in a single box to combat a broad range of threats efficiently and economically. Learn More. INSIDER The race toward compliance is 'not optimal' More security managers find themselves running compliance programs rather than performing security and risk management. Read More Avaya virtualizes UC Aura platform Catching up with many of the other unified communications vendors, Avaya today announced that its Aura platform now can be virtualized. Read More iPhone 5s rear housing photos emerge It's barely December and we're already starting to see iPhone 5s rumors sprout up. Now given that the iPhone 5 hasn't even been out for a full 3 months, one can reasonably argue that any iPhone 5s rumor that makes the rounds this early isn't likely to pan out. And while I'm inclined to agree with that sentiment, some manufacturing problems with the iPhone 5 may suggest otherwise. Read More Motorola streamlines Wi-Fi access with social networking accounts Motorola Solutions has unveiled a pair of quasi-cloud services that make it simpler for IT groups to set up secure connections for guest Wi-Fi users, including those with personally-owned devices, on corporate or retail wireless LANs. 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! HP makes public cloud service official; bolsters hypervisor support HP is taking the beta label off its public cloud and making it generally available today, along some other features that are part of its converged cloud strategy. Read More Google Play now lets businesses host their own app stores Google announced Tuesday that companies with their own in-house Android applications can now distribute them internally via the new Private Channel feature of the Play Store. Read More Tablet sales skyrocketing, driven by iPad mini, Android demand The latest predictions from researcher IDC show a continuing increase in tablet sales from the end of 2012 all the way through 2016, according to the company's latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Read More Google I/O 2013 dates set for May 15-17 Google I/O, which runs neck-and-neck with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference for hottest tech industry confab these days, will be held next year on May 15-17 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Read More
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