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	Is this what future data centers will look like? A few years ago LexisNexis, a supplier of legal resources for lawyers around the country, needed to expand its West Coast presence. In the past, the way that Terry Williams would have handled such a task as vice president of managed technology solutions for the company would be to find a collocation provider, rent out some space, then buy servers and configure them. Even though a collocation facility provides the power, cooling and building infrastructure, Williams says it still take months to configure the system just the right way. Then, if changes are needed, either more space needs to be rented out or the system has to be reconfigured. Read More WHITE PAPER: Latisys Benefits of the Latisys Cloud Join us for a demonstration of the Latisys Enterprise Cloud. Register Now In this Issue Biggest Tech Industry Awards, Honors & Prizes of 2013 Design Automation Conference at 50: Bring on the women, cloud and maybe even open source How to Use Gamification to Engage Employees Malware increasingly uses peer-to-peer communications, researchers say INSIDER Hot cloud products IT pros swear by 6 great videos from CITE 2013 Is this what icons in iOS 7 will look like? It's in a book: Reading Rainbow turns 30 today The 10 Coolest Looks in Wearable Tech WHITE PAPER: VCE Eclipse Aerospace Case Study Building an Agile, Cost-efficient Business using a Virtualized Data Center. Learn More. Biggest Tech Industry Awards, Honors & Prizes of 2013 Computing and networking legends and newcomers earn their recognition Read More Design Automation Conference at 50: Bring on the women, cloud and maybe even open source The Design Automation Conference (DAC) held here this week celebrated its 50th anniversary, prompting the industry and academic community that poured so much energy into chip, software and hardware design to both take a look back and to predict what the future may hold. Read More How to Use Gamification to Engage Employees Gamification is the process of using game thinking and game mechanics to solve problems and engage users, according to Gabe Zichermann, author of the upcoming book "The Gamification Revolution" and founder of Dopamine, a consulting agency focused on gamified campaigns for employees and consumers. Read More Malware increasingly uses peer-to-peer communications, researchers say The number of malware samples that use P-to-P (peer-to-peer) communications has increased fivefold during the past 12 months, according to researchers from security firm Damballa. Read More INSIDER Hot cloud products IT pros swear by Spending on cloud services is so far just a fraction of total IT spending -- roughly 3% -- but the market is growing. IT pros explain what they like about their favorite cloud-based security, storage and management services. Read More 6 great videos from CITE 2013 Earlier this week I attended the second annual CITE Conference (Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise), held in San Francisco (Disclaimer: The conference is produced by IDG Enterprise, the company I work for). As always, I was there with my video camera to capture some interviews and get some product-related demos from companies at the show. Here are the six videos we shot, showing a variety of... Read More Is this what icons in iOS 7 will look like? WWDC is inching closer by the day, and all eyes will be on what Apple has in store for us with iOS 7. While services and functionality will ultimately be what matters most, there is also immense interest into what the UI for iOS 7 will look like now that Apple design guru Jony Ive is spearheading what promises to be some notable aesthetic changes. Read More It's in a book: Reading Rainbow turns 30 today The first episode of Reading Rainbow - the iconic PBS television series that encouraged a generation of kids to turn off the tube and pick up a book - aired 30 years ago today on June 6, 1983. There would be a total of 155 over the show's 21-year run, which ended in 2006. Read More The 10 Coolest Looks in Wearable Tech From gloves that analyze your golf swing to glasses that combat jetlag and a headband that reads your mind, here's a look at some of the newest and neatest advancements in wearable technology. Read More
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