Monday, May 13, 2013

IT pros leave money on the table, job site finds

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IT pros leave money on the table, job site finds
When a job offer arrives, a majority of IT pros accept it without asking for more pay, according to Dice.com. If candidates were to negotiate higher salaries, they could expect a bump in the neighborhood of 5%, the IT careers specialist estimates. Read More


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Adopt SDNs without Losing Network Control
Riverbed Technology and VMware have joined forces to help address these problems and make it easy to deploy and manage VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers. Learn more.

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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

10 more of the world's coolest data centers
From a repurposed chapel to inflatable modules, data centers don't fit the same mold. Read More

Flexible-display smartphones just a 'novelty'…. for now
Although multiple manufacturers are expected to release smartphones with flexible display screens by the end of this year, the technology will be little more than a novelty until about 2015, one analyst says. Read More

History of flexible displays
Flexible display screens are expected to become a common feature of consumer electronics in the next few years, and have recently been touted by several top-tier manufacturers. However, the technology is not young, and has endured a long, and sometimes difficult, evolution along the way. Read More


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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.

Thoughts from Interop 2013: The network has never been more important
Well, the 2013 version of Interop is now in the books and while conventional wisdom dictates that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," I thought there were a number of themes at the show that rose above the general noise of the event and are worth sharing. Read More

Why Microsoft won't charge for Windows 'Blue' & this time
Sometime soon, Microsoft will tell Windows 8 users whether they will have to pay for the upgrade code-named "Blue," and if so, how much. Analysts don't expect it to charge anything for the update. Read More

US government is 'biggest buyer' of zero-day vulnerabilities, claims report
While the Pentagon is pointing its finger at China for hacking and cyberespionage, a Reuters report claims China's not the only cyber-devil . . . we are too. In fact, the US government is the 'biggest buyer' of zero-days and hacking tools. Read More


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Measuring Private Cloud Payback
With 2,000 employees spread across five continents, balancing the tradeoff between complexity and performance is no easy task. See how a natural resources firm leveraged WAN optimization to deploy their private cloud and achieve bandwidth utilization reductions of 70%-90% without having to make changes to routers or QoS configurations. Read now!

When cars talk, this is what they'll tell each other
Researchers are developing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication technology that allows cars to exchange data with each other, meaning vehicles will soon know what the cars all around you are doing on the highway. Read More

Feds block downloads of 3D-printed gun blueprints
In compliance with a request from the U.S. State Department, Defense Distributed, the Austin, Texas-based group that recently unveiled the world's first operational 3D-printed handgun, has removed the design files for the weapons from its website. Read More

Virginia Tech researchers create underwater spy robot
Researchers at Virginia Tech have built an autonomous, robotic jellyfish that could someday work as an underwater military spy. Read More

 
 
 

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