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Ten best practices for the cloud

14 manliest high-tech Father's Day gifts

Windows 8 Update: Microsoft teams with Best Buy to boost Windows 8 sales

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June 14, 2013
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Ten best practices for the cloud

According to the IT industry trade association CompTIA, "over 80% of companies now claim to use some form of cloud solution, whether that be virtual machines that can be spun up on demand or applications that can be easily procured and put into use."

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Issue highlights

1. 14 manliest high-tech Father's Day gifts

2. Windows 8 Update: Microsoft teams with Best Buy to boost Windows 8 sales

3. Cisco still leading lackluster market

4. CERN retires proprietary video conferencing system in favor of Vidyo

5. Spy-proof enterprise encryption is possible, but daunting

6. New York introduces legislation to regulate 3-D printed arms

7. Happy Father's Day to my dad, the hobbyist programmer

8. FDA calls on medical device makers to focus on cybersecurity

9. 16 steps to surefire IT project success

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14 manliest high-tech Father's Day gifts

Techie gifts for the serious male role model in your life READ MORE

Windows 8 Update: Microsoft teams with Best Buy to boost Windows 8 sales

Microsoft is placing Microsoft Stores within about half the U.S. Best Buy locations and creating a parallel online store on the Best Buy site in an effort to drum up more consumer business, it seems, for Windows 8. READ MORE

Cisco still leading lackluster market

Infonetics Research expects the service provider router and switch market to grow at a compounded annual rate of just under 9% from now until 2017. This, despite a lackluster Q1 of 2013. [ON THE HORIZON: What's Next for Ethernet?] READ MORE

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CERN retires proprietary video conferencing system in favor of Vidyo

Tim Smith has some of the best IT end users in the world: the physicists who do research at CERN, which runs the particle physics lab that is home to the Large Hadron Collider, because they need little instruction when it comes to new technology. READ MORE

Spy-proof enterprise encryption is possible, but daunting

Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthorized access by ill-intended third parties, but the correct implementation and use of data encryption technologies is not an easy task, according to security experts. READ MORE

New York introduces legislation to regulate 3-D printed arms

New legislation in New York city aims to regulate the use of 3-D printers to make firearms, as the U.S. tries to cope with the possible proliferation online of drawings for making such arms. READ MORE

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Happy Father's Day to my dad, the hobbyist programmer

I found out recently that I'm not the only member of my family to appear in the illustrious pages of the IDG family of publications, of which Network World is one. In 1983, sister site InfoWorld reviewed my dad's Home Finance System – a personal accounting program that competed (albeit briefly) with Quicken – and I happened to stumble across the article via a Google Books search. (It's on page 31. Apparently, InfoWorld liked it.) READ MORE

FDA calls on medical device makers to focus on cybersecurity

Medical device makers should take new steps to protect their products from malware and cyberattacks or face the possibility that U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't approve their devices for use, the FDA said. READ MORE

16 steps to surefire IT project success

Deft project management requires just the right blend of book smarts and street smarts READ MORE

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