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In this Issue EMC and VMware spin out big data/cloud division Bad Blood: Apple vs. Samsung Autonomy founder Lynch unveils website, continuing public war with HP CIO succession: Promote from within vs. hire an outsider Steve Jobs film starring Ashton Kutcher to be Sundance 2013's grand finale 'Creative' is king of LinkedIn buzzwords in 2012 Rolling up developments in Wi-Fi Microsoft may have some Windows Phone 8 momentum after all Rumored follow-ons for Surface tablets; reduced orders for original Surface Pinkie Pie hacker strikes again; Google repairs two major Chrome vulnerabilities INSIDER Do you have a disaster-preparedness plan? Products of the week 12.3.12 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. 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Read More Autonomy founder Lynch unveils website, continuing public war with HP Autonomy founder Mike Lynch has created a new website where he will apparently keep a running stockpile of his responses to Hewlett-Packard's allegations of accounting fraud at the vendor. Read More CIO succession: Promote from within vs. hire an outsider Tapping an outsider can bring fresh perspective and experience to the CIO's office, but it also can have a negative effect on companies' efforts to develop IT management talent internally Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Standards-Based Platforms are Transforming IT More and more businesses are saving time and money by transforming proprietary, siloed computer environments for resource-intensive workloads into consolidated IT infrastructures built on industry standards and open systems. Learn More Steve Jobs film starring Ashton Kutcher to be Sundance 2013's grand finale The widely anticipated Steve Jobs biopic, dubbed "jOBS," will close out this coming January's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Read More 'Creative' is king of LinkedIn buzzwords in 2012 So much for being "creative": It remains the most overused LinkedIn profile term for the second year in a row among U.S.-based professionals as well as those worldwide. Read More Rolling up developments in Wi-Fi Even though users typically only notice the major changes designed to improve the performance of Wi-Fi, the 802.11 specifications are constantly under development. For every "public" change there are five background changes, some of which are significant. Read More Microsoft may have some Windows Phone 8 momentum after all Earlier this year, Nokia stole the show at CES with the sleek and beautiful Lumia 900 smartphone running Windows Phone 7.5. It won numerous awards and accolades, similar to the Palm Pre a few years back. If I'm comparing it to the Pre, you know where this is going. Read More WHITE PAPER: Autonomy, an HP company Changing the Game with Intelligent Archiving This white paper discusses new demands on the electronic archive, the pitfalls of legacy approaches, and how to take archiving to the next level. Read Now! Rumored follow-ons for Surface tablets; reduced orders for original Surface The big Windows 8 rumors out today are that Microsoft has cut in half its order for Surface RT tablets even as the company is in the thick of work on the next generation of the products. First the cut in orders. That rumor comes from DigiTimes which says the order for Surface RT tablets has been cut from 4 million to 2 million. That's based on unnamed sources. Read More Pinkie Pie hacker strikes again; Google repairs two major Chrome vulnerabilities The Chrome hacker known as "Pinkie Pie" helped reveal a serious flaw in the browser's media handler that was patched last week with the release of Chrome 23. That update also fixed a file path handling problem, which was discovered by Google's in-house researchers. Read More INSIDER Do you have a disaster-preparedness plan? What Sept. 11, 2001 taught network administrators is that having your backup server on site was not much of a backup if the entire grid went down. So in the past decade big strides have been made to create duplication offsite. With the latest natural disaster in Hurricane Sandy making a path of destruction through the East, the disaster preparedness plan is being put to a test. Read More Products of the week 12.3.12 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as A10 and Red Hat Read More
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