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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

WEBCAST: Sprint

The Network Foundation of an IT-to-ET Transformation
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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WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

Top 10 Cloud Backup and DR Best Practices
Building out a complete disaster recovery infrastructure can be cost prohibitive for many organizations. This paper identifies the many ways the public cloud can supplement backup and recovery strategies and offers overall best practices to ensure secure and efficient data protection. Learn More

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

Online electronics retailer has successful trial with bitcoin-only transactions
An online electronics retailer, Bitcoinstore, has had such a successful trial run accepting only bitcoins for payment that it will continue operating. 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

WHITE PAPER: Dell

Current Cloud Adoption Trends
No longer limited to early adopters in small organizations, cloud computing has become pervasive in midsize and large organizations. The survey results in this report highlight how strategic-minded IT decision makers in North America are overcoming security concerns and adopting private, public and hybrid clouds. Learn More

"Tsunami" of bandwidth demand pushes IEEE 400G Ethernet standards process
The IEEE this week launched a study group to explore development of a 400Gbps Ethernet standard to support booming demand for network bandwidth. Read More

Military IT projects wracked with delays, increased costs, GAO finds
A U.S. government watchdog agency has found that nearly half of 14 large ongoing military IT projects are over budget and more than half are behind schedule. 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: CA Technologies

Reshaping IT for Unprecedented Productivity
This "consumer driven IT" represents a new wave of technology adoption—one that significantly blurs the lines between business and personal domains. Learn More

Health-IT early adopters well-poised for big-data advances in clinical medicine
Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S. medical providers remain sluggish, with the industry slow to embrace the big-data movement. Read More

FTC's robocall-blocking contest yields tech winners
Two people will share a US$50,000 prize from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for the best idea to block illegal robocalls from reaching the owners of mobile and wired phones. 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

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