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	How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver Focuses on Five Pillars of Technology The content-rich agenda has been redesigned and reenergized to include increased IDG content from editors you know and trust on topics such as: Security & Management, Network - From the Edge to the Core of the New Data Center, Analytics & Data Management, Cloud & Next Generation Apps, The Mobile/BYOD Enterprise, and more! In this Issue 20 geeky gifts for Mother's Day The cloud's the limit for new Arista, Brocade and HP switches Juniper closer to Cisco in shipping SDN brains Microsoft admits zero-day bug in IE8, pledges patch INSIDER How to keep your network in tip-top health Google CEO: 'Big bets' on non-core products are worth the risk A telecom landmark gets wired for the cloud How to nab a data scientist job Amazon leaks evidence of first smaller, cheaper Windows 8 tablet Retailers didn't do Windows 8 any favors WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Adopting Unified Communications: Key Steps to Consider Organizations are turning to UC as a critical strategy for increasing productivity by enabling end users to communicate anytime, anywhere. Find out which specific areas of your organization can most benefit and how to best approach ROI and TCO calculations. Learn More 20 geeky gifts for Mother's Day Treat the moms in your life to custom chocolate photos, propeller earrings, binary pottery and other tech-inspired Mother's Day gifts. Read More The cloud's the limit for new Arista, Brocade and HP switches Cloud scaling will be all the switching rage at this week's Interop. Three major vendors last week took their platforms deeper into and then beyond the data center, outdueling each other on server access density and software programmability, two key attributes needed for the virtualized goldmine called the cloud. And in so doing, they have raised the bar and perhaps set the stage for one of the more anticipated announcements in SDN switching from Cisco spin-in Insieme. Read More Juniper closer to Cisco in shipping SDN brains Juniper Networks this week will extend its SDN offerings with the release of its controller, roughly six months ahead of schedule. 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 Microsoft admits zero-day bug in IE8, pledges patch Microsoft late Friday confirmed that a "zero-day," or unpatched, vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8, the company's most popular browser. Read More INSIDER How to keep your network in tip-top health If your network has between 1,000 and10,000 devices and computers, you have a midsized network. Your servers, connections and other resources suffer the same problems as larger networks, but your budget for keeping the network healthy is less than what large enterprises enjoy. Read More Google CEO: 'Big bets' on non-core products are worth the risk Google's core offering may be search, but the company is just as serious about providing in-the-moment information to users with emerging technologies such as Google Now, self-driving cars and Google Glass, says CEO Larry Page. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Scale Your DNS Infrastructure to Protect Your Business DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More. A telecom landmark gets wired for the cloud The Pacific Bell tower in San Francisco, the high-rise headquarters of the phone company through eight decades and several name changes, was a monument to copper. Read More How to nab a data scientist job How exactly do you make it to the data scientist big leagues? As it turns out, there is no one right path. Instead, it's largely a scramble out there on the big data field. Insider (registration required) Read More Amazon leaks evidence of first smaller, cheaper Windows 8 tablet Details of what could be the first smaller Windows 8 tablet leaked Friday when Amazon briefly published a listing for an 8.1-in. Acer Iconia tablet. Read More Retailers didn't do Windows 8 any favors Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today. Read More
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