Networking World: Ultimate guide to Windows 8 ultrabooks

Ubuntu Touch smartphone one step closer to shipping | Canonical's Mir move doesn't sit well with some Linux developers

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Ultimate guide to Windows 8 ultrabooks
While finding a touchscreen for a desktop computer is nearly impossible, and finding a touchscreen notebook computer takes some searching, touchscreen ultrabooks are readily available. These thin, light and relatively compact computers are intended to be portable and to be used at a moment's notice. Adding touch seems a natural thing to do. Read More

WEBCAST: Fluke Networks

Best Practices Performance Monitoring Recorded Webinar
Webinar will examine the driving factors, objectives, requirements, and best practices surrounding converged network and application performance management. Learn More

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WEBCAST: Wildpackets

Scale your Network Analysis with WildPackets
Network growth creates hidden complexity for network analysis. To monitor health & performance, your visibility solution must scale as easily as your network. This webcast shows how our solutions scale & push the boundaries in high-speed, distributed network analysis & troubleshooting. View now

Ubuntu Touch smartphone one step closer to shipping
Having a great, Linux-based, mobile platform is one thing. Bringing it to the masses, in the form of actual smartphones (and tablets, phablets and whatever other words we're using to describe "devices we can hold in our hand" nowadays), is quite another. Read More

WHITE PAPER: IBM

A Step-by-Step Approach to Successful Business Intelligence
Organizations that have the most success with BI typically approach it incrementally. Discover a step-by-step strategy for success in this newsletter featuring research from Gartner. Learn More.

Canonical's Mir move doesn't sit well with some Linux developers
Nobody could accuse Canonical of resting on its laurels. The business side of Ubuntu – the best-known desktop Linux distribution – has expanded aggressively into mobility, pushed forward with a new desktop environment, and continued to release new versions of the flagship OS over the past few years. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

Easing the Online Overload
Many transaction processing systems have reached their capacity limits, so the time is right to consider the potential for running tier 1 mission-critical workloads on opens standards. This white paper highlights the key components of a properly structured and highly optmized SQL Server OLTP reference architecture. Read Now!

7 of 10 leading WordPress plugins are vulnerable
WordPress, is the open source content management system (CMS) that powers more than 60 million web sites or about 18% of all of the sites on the web. One of its biggest advantages is the large number of plugins written by 3rd parties that allow authors to use advanced features within WordPress. Read More

SLIDESHOWS

Ultimate ultrabook shootout

Testing of eight Windows 8 ultrabooks reveals that users looking for a sleek form factor will have to accept tradeoffs.

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