Issue highlights 1. IT pros struggle to manage Big Data 2. Deep inside Windows Blue: 10 coolest features in Microsoft's leaked OS 3. Avaya CEO talks competition, debt, innovation 4. Cloud prices: How low can they go? 5. Juniper uncorks its core SDN switch earlier than expected 6. Researchers find new point-of-sale malware called BlackPOS 7. HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now 8. Cisco lays off 500 of workforce 9. Army takes a flier on OpenSim 10. iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 29 11. Google's famous follies: 10 favorite April Fools' gags and Easter Eggs 12. Madeleine Albright: 'There's a special place in hell reserved for women who refuse to help one another' in the workforce |
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| IT professionals and businesses are struggling to extract strategic value from their Big Data, according to global research. READ MORE |
| After an abundance of rumors, whispers, and slip-ups in job postings, we now have more concrete evidence of Microsoft's secretive Windows Blue operating system: An honest-to-goodness leak of an early build of the OS. READ MORE |
| Avaya is pushing a new range of unified communications products, but is finding that managed services are becoming more popular among its customers who would rather turn over complex UC transitions to someone else for a predictable monthly fee, says the company's CEO Kevin Kennedy. READ MORE |
| Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers are battling in a price war that has seen 29 price reductions by the four major providers during the past 14 months, a trend industry analysts expect to continue. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Eaton Corporation In this interactive KnowledgeVault, you'll find short videos, white papers, case studies, briefs and more, all designed to tackle the issues surrounding electrical power and how to better manage it in light of the demands caused by virtualization and cloud computing. Learn More |
| Earlier than expected, Juniper this week unveiled the EX9200 programmable core switch for 10G, 40G and 100Gbps software-defined networks. READ MORE |
| A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics company based in Russia. READ MORE |
| During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop. READ MORE |
| Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 500 people as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow in size, complexity and danger. Witness the recent wave of attacks on major U.S. banks, which knocked websites offline, angered customers and took a grave toll on brand reputations. Learn More. |
| The U.S. Army is not new to using simulated virtual environments for training. In fact, almost all soldiers have used virtual simulations, according to Douglas Maxwell, the science and technology manager for virtual world strategic applications at the Army's Simulation & Training Technology Center in Orlando. READ MORE |
| The iOSphere wheezed this week, trying to breathe new life into limp rumors. It pretty much failed. READ MORE |
| The Goog has a long and storied history of April Fools' Day jokes and offbeat Easter Eggs. Here's a look at some of our favorites. READ MORE |
| Speaking at the CIA Women's History Month Celebration this week former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered a number of career advancing suggestions for women in the workforce. READ MORE |
| WEBCAST: Sprint Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT There's an evolutionary process at work that will eventually affect every enterprise IT department. Nemertes Research describes it as a transformation from IT to ET – Enterprise Technology. Learn More |
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