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	Cisco-Sourcefire union raises many product overlap questions Industry watchers are bullish about the $2.7 billion Cisco buyout of security company Sourcefire announced today, but they have plenty of questions about how these competitors in intrusion-detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) and next-generation firewalls (NGFW) will sort out significant product overlap. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Canon Document management made simple, with Canon. Canon's next-generation imageRUNNER ADVANCE gives your users simple, seamless ways to do more in less time: Like one-touch printing, sharing and accessing documents --in the office or remotely via mobile devices. And it gives your business a powerful document management platform that's easy and painless to run, upgrade, and expand. LEARN MORE In this Issue Software-defined networking explained Does anyone in IT truly relax on vacation? Leave it to baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams to create the best infographic ever First look: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V shines on Cisco spending $2.7B for Sourcefire, company that commercialized Snort open-source security tool White House opposes amendment to curb NSA spying Google bigger than Facebook, Netflix and Instagram combined Our Internet privacy is at risk -- but not dead (yet) Mac sales slide for third straight quarter, fall 7% WHITE PAPER: Verizon Building the Best Network for the Cloud In this Verizon Knowledge Vault, you'll learn from videos and other downloadable resources how to move large amounts of data reliably and securely, how to increase performance for the cloud and how to balance risk and opportunity in the cloud era with the help of Verizon Network and Cloud Solutions. Learn More Software-defined networking explained Understand how SDN will change everything in 10 easy steps. Read More Does anyone in IT truly relax on vacation? That IT professionals work on vacation is as obvious as sand on a beach. Some see it as part of the job bargain, and maybe there's something to relish about being indispensable. Read More Leave it to baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams to create the best infographic ever We're inundated daily with infographics from companies attempting to wow us with their capabilities, warn us of impending IT security doom and blow us away with the growth of markets such as mobile and social media. Read More WEBCAST: Egnyte The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! First look: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V shines on Preview editions of Hyper-V 2012 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 pick up where the strong initial releases left off. Read More Cisco spending $2.7B for Sourcefire, company that commercialized Snort open-source security tool Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) Tuesday announced a $2.7 billion deal to buy Sourcefire (NASDAQ: FIRE), the 12-year-old intrusion detection and prevention security vendor whose founder invented the open-source Snort IDS. Read More White House opposes amendment to curb NSA spying The White House is opposed to an amendment to a defense spending bill that would limit spending on mass surveillance by the National Security Agency. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Boost Profitability with Better Planning & Mobile Reporting This session will discuss how Ashurst, a top-tier legal service provider for private and public sector clients worldwide, was able to effectively manage organizational change and improve their profitability using IBM Business Analytics. Learn More. Google bigger than Facebook, Netflix and Instagram combined Google, and its bevy of services, including Gmail, search, YouTube and Maps, account for 25% of all Internet traffic in North America, on average, according to Deepfield, an Internet monitoring company. Read More Our Internet privacy is at risk -- but not dead (yet) Legislation, stealth technologies, and emerging data privacy markets are proving that the battle for our Internet privacy has only just begun Read More Mac sales slide for third straight quarter, fall 7% Mac sales in the second quarter contracted by nearly 7%, the third consecutive quarter of decline, sliding to 3.75 million systems, the lowest number in more than two years, the company reported Read More
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