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	Ubuntu Smartphones No, Ubuntu Tablets, Yes The big disruptive announcement from Canonical this week about porting Ubuntu to smartphones had many Linux fans excited. Never mind that Android is a Linux based OS, having Ubuntu on your phone for many Linux fold means a "real" Linux has finally gone mobile. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More In this Issue Ultra-hyped ultrabooks ultra-flopped in 2012 CES 2013: Products to watch for 10 free router and IP admin tools you should know about WHITE PAPER: HP Making Storage Technology Work for You How do you scale your storage infrastructure to meet future needs? Start by eliminating the boundaries between storage and the rest of IT. That's what Converged Storage is all about. Be more agile -- and be better prepared to face the challenges that come with the ongoing explosion of structured and unstructured data. Read Now! Ultra-hyped ultrabooks ultra-flopped in 2012 Just 12 months ago, the ultrabook was widely regarded as the PC market's savior. Since then, it's become more of a punch line. Read More WHITE PAPER: PhoneFactor Malware Threats Force Authentication to 'Step Out' Of Band Malware, like ZeuS and other real-time attacks, has rapidly outpaced all other banking security threats to defeat most security measures in place today. This whitepaper examines these current malware threats and today's best practices for mitigating them, such as out-of-band authentication and transaction-level verification. Learn More CES 2013: Products to watch for The stuff we're eager to get our grubby little hands on at this year's CES. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Deployment Options for the Enterprise From the cloud or hosted, outsourced or as a managed service--what is the best way to deploy collaboration services? In this report, Forrester helps IT pros identify key priorities and create an optimal strategy for implementation. Read Now 10 free router and IP admin tools you should know about Who says network operations has to be expensive? Read More
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