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	First look: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V shines on Hyper-V 3.0 was perhaps the shiniest of the shining-star features of Windows Server 2012. A number of new capabilities, plus enhancements to existing ones, promise to make Windows Server 2012 R2 an even stronger candidate for the majority of virtualization tasks most organizations need to support. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Improving Business Value of WAN Optimization In this study, as in the 2007 study, IDC found that customers were able to reduce IT costs, improve IT staff efficiency, increase availability for users, and trim time to market with new revenue-generating opportunities. Read Now In this Issue Friday to mark 14th annual SysAdmin Day Bill Gates's return may save Microsoft, but it's not likely Top picks: The best Windows 8 tablet laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks Microsoft to offer Java as a service Chase, American Express, Office 365 vulnerable to cookie replay attacks Microsoft predicts another cruel quarter for PCs Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract Microsoft ships Office 2010 SP2, starts upgrade clock Apple's interest in supersized iPad signals mimicry of Microsoft WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology How WAN Optimization Helps Enterprises Reduce Costs If you wanted to break down innovation into a tidy equation, it might go something like this: Technology + Connectivity = Productivity. Productivity comes in two forms: user experience and infrastructure efficiency. Read Now Friday to mark 14th annual SysAdmin Day Contests, cake and appropriately heartfelt thanks are central to the celebration of the 14th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day this Friday. So exactly how are sysadmins and sysadmin admirers marking the occasion? What follows is a sampling of ways gleaned from Twitter and the hashtag #sysadminday. Read More Bill Gates's return may save Microsoft, but it's not likely Slow news days (a royal birth aside) can lead to bored reporters straying into speculation territory since they have no news on which to report. The latest comes from International Business Times, which ran an article speculating that Bill Gates might have to mount up his white horse and save his faltering company from the bumbling hands of the man he picked to take over the firm more than a decade. Read More Top picks: The best Windows 8 tablet laptops, convertibles, and Ultrabooks HP and Dell lead Samsung, Lenovo, and Acer in InfoWorld's reviews of both classic clamshell notebooks and innovative touch-driven hybrids. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology How WAN Optimization Can Drive Top-Line Revenue A convergence of trends is creating a perfect storm for IT professionals tasked with providing secure, reliable access to applications and other critical corporate information. These potentially conflicting trends are putting a strain on corporate networks as more users attempt to access desktop infrastructures. View Now Microsoft to offer Java as a service Adding to a growing portfolio of enterprise software it offers as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service. 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 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 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 Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract Amazon Web Services has filed a complaint in a U.S. court after the Government Accountability Office sustained in part a protest by IBM against the award of a contract by the CIA for a cloud computing project. Read More Microsoft ships Office 2010 SP2, starts upgrade clock Microsoft released Office 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2), a cumulative update that includes previously-released bug fixes as well as several performance, reliability and stability improvements. Read More Apple's interest in supersized iPad signals mimicry of Microsoft Apple's reported interest in a larger iPad tablet with a 13-in. screen shows that the Cupertino Calif. company is thinking along some of the same lines as its rival Microsoft, analysts said. Read More
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