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	Tablet Wars: Microsoft Surface RT v. Apple iPad The Microsoft Surface running Windows RT is just about everything you'd want in a tablet, but how does it stack up against the market leader, the Apple iPad? Read More WEBCAST: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Forrester Video: The Next Generation Cloud and Your Network Forrester's Vanessa Alvarez highlights the importance of automation, flexibility, and agility when enterprise organizations rely on the cloud, in particular, the large amounts of data traversing the WAN. Learn more. In this Issue Is Yahoo's telework ban shortsighted or savvy? Data says both Cisco looking to make things right with West Virginia Recent signals point to escalating jitters for IPv4 market Top tech companies plug into renewable power 14 killer hardware deals that cost $100 Federal CIOs still say no to BYOD Microsoft: We can update Office-by-subscription every 90 days CloudFlare briefly drops off Internet deflecting DDOS attack Five new features coming in openSUSE Linux 12.3 MIT panel warns of challenges of hyper-networked world WHITE PAPER: Dell SonicWall How Traditional Firewalls Fail This white paper will explain exactly where traditional firewalls fall short, how Next-Generation Firewalls fill those gaps, and how Next-Generation Firewalls can help you. Read Now! Is Yahoo's telework ban shortsighted or savvy? Data says both Employee morale will plummet, key people will quit, and efforts to enhance collaboration will backfire, critics said of CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to end telecommuting at Yahoo. But not all data comes to the same conclusions. Read More Cisco looking to make things right with West Virginia Cisco has offered to "take back" routers it sold to West Virginia if the state finds they are inappropriate for its needs, according to this post on wvgazette.com. Read More Recent signals point to escalating jitters for IPv4 market Publications discussing the transition to the IPv6 addressing system have revealed mounting anxiety regarding the economics and service impact of the global shortage of IPv4 addresses. Common concerns have implications for the top and bottom lines of ISPs, clouds, hosting services and other service providers for interconnected pathways. Taken together, the following perceptions suggest a growing appetite for transfers of increasingly scarce IPv4 addresses. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now Top tech companies plug into renewable power Leading tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple are making huge inroads in the use of renewable energy for corporate facilities and data centers, but cost and delivery challenges remain. Read More 14 killer hardware deals that cost $100 Don't underestimate the value of a C-note. Though it may be scarcely enough for a full tank of gas for your SUV, it still wields purchasing power in the ultracompetitive PC and gadget marketplace. Read More Federal CIOs still say no to BYOD Government IT leaders who oversee sensitive or classified information require firm device-management policies to address security concerns before they will even consider allowing workers' personal smartphones and tablets behind the firewall. Read More WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers looks at vendors responding to the challenge of "any channel" customer engagement. Follow the leaders and find out why more than 100,000 customers worldwide rely on Salesforce CRM applications to transform their businesses. Read More! Microsoft: We can update Office-by-subscription every 90 days Microsoft may upgrade Office 2013 as often as four times a year, the company's top Office executive said this week, a massive change from decades of more measured development. Read More CloudFlare briefly drops off Internet deflecting DDOS attack CloudFlare's Juniper routers choked on a slight programming change designed to deflect a distributed denial-of-service attack, knocking the company's services off the Internet for about an hour early Sunday morning. Read More Five new features coming in openSUSE Linux 12.3 It took almost a year for openSUSE Linux 12.2 to arrive after the launch of its predecessor, but version 12.3 of the popular Linux distribution is apparently coming along more quickly. Read More MIT panel warns of challenges of hyper-networked world A panel discussion held at MIT this week hailed major advances in networking technology, but warned that the challenges facing the world's information infrastructure are severe. Read More
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