Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Cisco to acquire Sourcefire for $2.7 billion

Apple reportedly testing larger-screened iPhones and iPads

What CIOs Need to Know About Software Defined Networking

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July 23, 2013
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Cisco to acquire Sourcefire for $2.7 billion

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.

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Issue highlights

1. Apple reportedly testing larger-screened iPhones and iPads

2. What CIOs Need to Know About Software Defined Networking

3. Software-defined networking explained

4. TV station using DMCA to scrub 'fake pilot names' clip

5. Apple earnings preview: More questions than answers

6. Chase, American Express, Office 365 vulnerable to cookie replay attacks

7. U.K.-based researcher claims responsibility for Apple Developer Center problems

8. SIM flaw boosts mobile data container argument

9. Microsoft predicts another cruel quarter for PCs

10. Wireless may replace phone lines in Sandy-ravaged areas of N.Y., N.J.

11. HIPAA fines put pressure on health care to better secure patient data

WEBCAST: Sprint

The Network Foundation of an IT-to-ET Transformation

There's an evolutionary process at work that will eventually affect every enterprise IT department. Nemertes Research describes it as a transformation from IT to ET – Enterprise Technology. Learn More

Apple reportedly testing larger-screened iPhones and iPads

Apple executives have long spoken ill of devices with larger screens. You might even remember that Steve Jobs once proclaimed that any tablets with a screen size less than 9.7-inches would be dead on arrival. Not a few years later, Apple released the extremely successful iPad Mini. READ MORE

What CIOs Need to Know About Software Defined Networking

Software defined networking applies the abstraction concepts of hardware virtualization to networking infrastructure. This works well for cloud implementations, which need significant configuration and planning. But SDN and network virtualization may still be too immature for prime time. READ MORE

Software-defined networking explained

Understand how SDN will change everything in 10 easy steps READ MORE

WEBCAST: VCE

Vblock Specialized System for SAP HANA

Overview video from DJ Long about the new Vblock Specialized System for SAP HANA. Learn More.

TV station using DMCA to scrub 'fake pilot names' clip

San Francisco TV station KTVU is using copyright law to demand that YouTube remove video clips showing its bamboozled news anchor reading fictitious names of Asiana Airlines pilots after the recent crash. And it's possible that "The Colbert Report" is also feeling the heat. READ MORE

Apple earnings preview: More questions than answers

It's been three months since we've taken Apple's financial pulse, which can only mean that it's time for a check-up. The company is set to announce its latest quarterly earnings on Tuesday with a conference call to follow at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET. Macworld will once again be providing live coverage of that analyst briefing and its attendant Sisyphean question-and-answer session. READ MORE

Chase, American Express, Office 365 vulnerable to cookie replay attacks

You are Bob. I am Alice. Although we can't see them, two others are reading over our shoulders. Eve is feeling evil and Mallory is full of malicious intent. Both Bob and Alice have accounts with financial services we access via the Internet. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology

Data Center Transformation and Its Impact on the Branch

Despite tighter budgets driven by the fragile economy, IT departments remain under intense pressure to deliver additional and higher-performance computing, network and application services worldwide. Learn More in this KVE

U.K.-based researcher claims responsibility for Apple Developer Center problems

Ibrahim BaliAASS says he was just searching for bugs and now Apple's Developer Center portal is down READ MORE

SIM flaw boosts mobile data container argument

With 40-year-old encryption find on Subscriber Identification Module cards, researcher says at least 500 million phones may be vulnerable READ MORE

Microsoft predicts another cruel quarter for PCs

Microsoft is prepping Wall Street for a 2% slip in Windows revenue for the third quarter and warning that PC shipments will continue their double-digit tumble. READ MORE

Wireless may replace phone lines in Sandy-ravaged areas of N.Y., N.J.

Hurricane Sandy devastated coastal areas in New Jersey and New York last October and left some Verizon Communications customers without copper phone lines. READ MORE

HIPAA fines put pressure on health care to better secure patient data

For a long time many in the security industry felt that HIPAA had no bite. That until there were a few examples of health care industry companies made to pay the piper for HIPAA violations, the entire industry would not toe the line. Well if that were the case it is not true anymore. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT

This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More.

SLIDESHOWS

12 of the worst data breaches of 2013 so far

The Identity Theft Resource Center, which tracks disclosed data breaches, has recorded 301 for the first half of 2013.

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