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Cisco virtual router targets the cloud

Cisco brings server virtualization to the branch office

Yahoo! home pages through the ages

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February 25, 2013
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Cisco virtual router targets the cloud

The Cisco CSR 1000V router is designed for enterprise network managers who want to have a little piece of their Cisco infrastructure in the cloud.

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Issue highlights

1. Cisco brings server virtualization to the branch office

2. Yahoo! home pages through the ages

3. Big Data, Big Business, Big Government, Bigger Brother

4. Imagination Technologies hopes to breathe new life into MIPS

5. IBM eyes mobile, social add-ons for mainframe

6. Top users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers, Computerworld study finds

7. Firefox to auto-block third-party ad cookies by summer

8. Data backup should never be Plan B

9. Akamai brews up more delicious Kona security tools

10. Juniper security products use device-fingerprinting as way to detect, block attacks

11. HP unveils 'Big Data Security' strategy

12. If Apple had unveiled Google Glasses...

13. Microsoft admits to being hacked too

14. Google Glass: Why Zuck's excited and I'm not

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Cisco brings server virtualization to the branch office

The Cisco UCS Express family is a new set of blades that add high-performance general-purpose Intel server capabilities to the ISR G2 series of routers. READ MORE

Yahoo! home pages through the ages

Looking back at how Yahoo's home page has changed over the years tells you a lot about the company - and the world around it. READ MORE

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Big Data, Big Business, Big Government, Bigger Brother

In his 1990 book "The New Realities," Peter Drucker noted: "Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for action, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different and more effective action." And that is what Big Data is delivering ... new knowledge, new insights and new actions, all of which will give us new problems to deal with. READ MORE

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Imagination Technologies hopes to breathe new life into MIPS

Imagination Technologies is moving forward with the development of the MIPS CPU architecture, trying to dispel concerns about the processor's future after acquiring struggling MIPS Technologies late last year for a heavily discounted price. READ MORE

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IBM eyes mobile, social add-ons for mainframe

IBM is looking to bring mobile and social workloads onto mainframes as a way of keeping the expensive machines competitive. READ MORE

Top users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers, Computerworld study finds

The biggest users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers, many based in India, or U.S.-based companies whose employees are mostly located overseas, according to government data obtained and analyzed by Computerworld. READ MORE

Firefox to auto-block third-party ad cookies by summer

Mozilla will automatically block third-party cookies starting with Firefox 22, which is slated to ship this summer, according to the Stanford University researcher who coded the change. READ MORE

Data backup should never be Plan B

Data is more important to businesses today than it has ever been, doing everything from revealing trends in customer behavior to comparing sales performance across business units and regions. Comprehensive data collection provides the who, what, when and how associated with almost all organizational activity. This information is incredibly valuable to executives because it plays a critical role in strategic business decisions. As such, all businesses - big and small - must have a data backup strategy in place to protect against data loss. READ MORE

Akamai brews up more delicious Kona security tools

Web acceleration company Akamai today announced Version 2.0 of its Kona Site Defender service, which adds new ways for clients to protect themselves against denial-of-service attacks. READ MORE

Juniper security products use device-fingerprinting as way to detect, block attacks

Juniper Networks today rolled out a battalion of security products and services to protect corporate networks, stating that when it comes to defensive measures, security attacks can be better prevented by determining device-fingerprinting rather than blocking attacks based on IP address. READ MORE

HP unveils 'Big Data Security' strategy

HP today took the wraps off its Big Data Security strategy, describing how combining the enterprise search and knowledge management resources from its Autonomy subsidiary with its ArcSight security-event and information management (SIEM) can yield new ways to detect cyberattacks or rogue-employee behavior. READ MORE

If Apple had unveiled Google Glasses...

Since the passing of Steve Jobs, Apple has been rather wanting when it comes to innovation. Sure, there have been incremental upgrades to products like the iMac and MacBook Pro, but when's the last time Apple truly brought something interesting to the table? Even Apple's most recent product releases should ring warning bells for investors. READ MORE

Microsoft admits to being hacked too

Once upon a time, Microsoft claimed that falling prey to social engineering tactics and then being hacked was a "rookie mistake." But now is the time for companies to jump on the bandwagon, to admit they were targeted by cyberattacks and successfully infiltrated. The stage is so crowded with 'giants' at this point, that there are fewer 'bad press' repercussions than if only one major company had admitted... READ MORE

Google Glass: Why Zuck's excited and I'm not

Juxtaposed on Techmeme, the two headlines crystalize perfectly my personal disinterest in Google Glass. On Forbes: "No One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg." On TechCrunch: "Google Glass Targeting End Of 2013 Consumer Release, With Price Tag Under $1,500." READ MORE

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