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	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 WHITE PAPER: Tripwire So Much Data, So Little Control It used to be that all you had to do to protect your company's intellectual property and customer information was lock the file drawers and, later, put layers of defenses around the data center. Learn More In this Issue 5 States That Offer Big Data Center Appeal Polycom CEO resigns after expense-report scandal iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending July 23 Amazon and Netflix: competitors who need each other What are WildCard Certificates, and how do I use them with Cisco's ISE? 16 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing Strategy Mac sales slide for third straight quarter, fall 7% 12 predictive analytics screw-ups Everything you need to know about the new Nexus 7 WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Software, Inc. Top 3 Reasons Why File Sync/Share is Not Endpoint Backup Employees unknowingly create corporate data security risks by adopting these easy-to-use, personal applications. Understanding at a high level the primary purpose of each application helps differentiate between them. Read this executive brief to learn the differences. Learn more. 5 States That Offer Big Data Center Appeal Whether it's to ameliorate disaster recovery or accommodate growth, many businesses are in the market for a new data center. These five states in the contiguous United States offer a variety of benefits, from low taxes to renewable energy to highly skilled labor. Read More Polycom CEO resigns after expense-report scandal Videoconferencing is advertised as a tool to reduce travel expenses, but for the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the business, apparently that wasn't enough. Read More iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending July 23 The iOSsphere obsession with figuring out the precise announcement and shipment dates for iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 continues. Read More Amazon and Netflix: competitors who need each other Amazon.com has Amazon Instant Video. Netflix has its video streaming service. These products are two of the most popular competing video streaming options available. And they both run on Amazon's cloud computing platform. Read More What are WildCard Certificates, and how do I use them with Cisco's ISE? A wildcard certificate is one that uses a wildcard notation (an asterisk and period before the domain name) and allows the certificate to be shared across multiple hosts in an organization. An example CN value for a wildcard certificate's Subject Name would look like the following: *.company.local If you configure a Wildcard Certificate to use *.company.local, that same certificate may be used... Read More 16 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing Strategy Web content strategy experts share their top tips for how to increase traffic to your Web or ecommerce site. 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 12 predictive analytics screw-ups Data mining experts share stories of failure from the trenches and lessons learned. Read More Everything you need to know about the new Nexus 7 All the specs and highlights from Google's Nexus 7 launch in San Francisco on July 24, 2013. Read More
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