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	Canonical raises curtain on Ubuntu for smartphones Ubuntu is now a full-fledged smartphone operating system, featuring a host of platform-specific features and an innovative new interface, Canonical announced today. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Financial Analytics: How IT Leaders Can Help CFOs CFOs rely on their IT leaders to guide them to the tools that help them keep up with the pace of today's business - tools that help them plan, report, measure and analyze data so they can make smarter decisions and drive more predictable business outcomes. Learn More In this Issue Technologies to watch 2013: OpenStack cloud backers hope this is the year of user adoption Tech's 20 Biggest Winners of 2012 The five best business freebies of 2012 Microsoft issues quick fix for critical 0day hole in IE Imation buys solid-state storage vendor Nexsan 7 deadly sins of cloud computing If you're following the Alaska drill rig drama ... From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight Top UC predictions for 2013 Tech blunders, drama, comedy! RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds, Inc. Download IP Address Manager and Say Goodbye to Spreadsheets! Are you still using spreadsheets to manage your IP space? SolarWinds® IP Address Manager (IPAM) enables you and your team to ditch your spreadsheets and switch to easy-to-use, centralized IP address management software. IPAM makes it easier than ever to manage Microsoft® DHCP/DNS, and Cisco® DHCP services, all from a single, intuitive Web console. Get SolarWinds® IP Address Manager and say goodbye to spreadsheets for good! Download a free, fully-functional 30-day trial and start managing your IP address space in less than an hour. Try it today! Technologies to watch 2013: OpenStack cloud backers hope this is the year of user adoption In the cloud computing market, there are a handful of major vendors. Most agree Amazon Web Services is a market leader on the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) side, but Microsoft, Google and younger companies like Joyent are looking to dethrone AWS. And then there's OpenStack, which is for almost everyone else. Read More Tech's 20 Biggest Winners of 2012 Read More The five best business freebies of 2012 The best things in life are free: hugs, moonlit nights, belly laughs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Universities Face Big Data Test Big Data will help university stakeholders make better-informed decisions across the board, from student recruitment to day-to-day operations. To carry that Big Data, Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networks are stepping up to help institutions build flexible and resilient network topologies. Learn more. Microsoft issues quick fix for critical 0day hole in IE There seems to have been no rest for Microsoft over the 2012 holidays as it issued a quick fix for a zero-day IE vulnerability that attackers were actively exploiting via drive-by download attacks. It may have felt like a flashback for the company as it also rushed to issue an emergency out-of-band update to deal with vulnerabilities in late December 2011. Read More Imation buys solid-state storage vendor Nexsan Imation, a storage and data security company, has acquired Nexsan, a vendor of disk-based storage systems, in a deal worth about US$120 million, the company announced. Read More 7 deadly sins of cloud computing Increasing your use of cloud computing? Great! Making these common security mistakes? Not great! Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. If you're following the Alaska drill rig drama ... This is the best photo I've seen of the stranded Shell drilling rig and the peril it faces from pounding waves off the coast of Alaska. And since we have access to Reuters, I thought I'd share. Read More From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight American Airlines was well into a simultaneous revamp of its Passenger Services System (PSS) and Flight Operating System (FOS), its two most mission-critical families of applications, when the airline changed course last January. Read More Top UC predictions for 2013 Today, we have once again dusted off our crystal ball and offer our predictions for 2013. We'll cover the mobile voice, video and collaboration ecosystem; discuss the role Microsoft and Skype will play; and touch on our expectations about the evolution of unified communications for consumers. Read More Tech blunders, drama, comedy! IT pros share behind-the-scene stories of the job, from personal bloopers to bureaucratic nonsense Read More
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