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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

100GB of free cloud storage ... with a catch

Products of the week 4.1.13 | Network administrators look to SDN with hope, concern

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100GB of free cloud storage ... with a catch
A variety of cloud services offer free storage to get users signed up and on a path to become paying customers. Normally these free offers start at 2GB and range on up to maybe 10GB. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT
This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More.

In this Issue

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

Easing the Online Overload
Many transaction processing systems have reached their capacity limits, so the time is right to consider the potential for running tier 1 mission-critical workloads on opens standards. This white paper highlights the key components of a properly structured and highly optmized SQL Server OLTP reference architecture. Read Now!

Products of the week 4.1.13
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Red Lion and Compuware Read More

Network administrators look to SDN with hope, concern
Some network operators say they need new tools to set up and manage connections in a virtualized world, even if that means adopting software-defined networking technology, which is still in its infancy. Read More

INSIDER

Three biggest misconceptions about 3D printing
If your business isn't already investing in 3D printing, it should be. And if you have a 3D printer, you should buy another one, recommends Gartner research director Pete Basiliere. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com

Escape Lotus Notes
With the Salesforce Platform, you can develop and deploy mobile, secure, scalable apps faster than ever. You'll get real-time reporting, visual work-flow, and with automatic feature upgrades, your apps will always have the latest innovations. Read Now!

FTC awards $50k in prizes to cut off exasperating robocalls
The Federal Trade Commission today said it picked two winners out of nearly 800 entries for its $50,000 Robocall Challenge which dared technologists to come up with an innovative way of blocking the mostly illegal but abundant calls. Read More

In wake of gTLD security criticism, ICANN announces emergency back-up registry operators
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names within a new generic top-level domain (gTLD)A will resolve in the event of a failure at a new TLD operator, it said on Tuesday. Read More

Mozilla refines Firefox's private browsing, patches 13 browser bugs
Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team. Read More

WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation

Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions from IBM
IBM provides consulting, implementation and application management services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, a comprehensive solution that helps midsize and larger organizations easily create and maintain a 360 view of their customers from first contact through purchase and post-sales. Learn More.

Sorting out the Juniper data center switching puzzle
Last week, the esteemed Jim Duffy wrote this news article covering the release of the Juniper EX9200 data center switch. The article left many questions in my mind, including when should customers buy an 8200 now? What about QFabric? What types of customers are right for the beefiness of a product like the 9200? I had a chance to talk to Juniper about the product and I thought I'd clear up some questions... Read More

Amazon Cloud is great, but not for business
Amazon added a new element to its Cloud Drive service this week that expands it usefulness. The new Cloud Drive Sync app keeps files in sync across different devices and platforms, and pits Amazon Cloud Drive head-to-head against rivals such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple. However, businesses should steer clear of Amazon Cloud Drive. Read More

Why some U.S. homes and businesses still don't have cellular service
While large portions of the U.S. are looking forward to faster wireless broadband, some regions don't have even simple cell phone service. What is being done to help? Read More

Do's and don'ts for using Android in business
While it's important to remember that the use of Google Android software in the enterprise is still a comparatively young phenomenon, there are a few general guidelines that businesses looking to use the platform would do well to remember. Read More

SLIDESHOWS

8 things you might not know about Android

Some lesser-known facts about Google's mobile OS.

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