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	Cisco bolsters its data center strategy with WHIPTAIL acquisition Cisco will use WHIPTAIL to bolster its UCS roadmap, and it fits nicely into the company's vision of application-centric infrastructure. Read More WEBCAST: Juniper Networks Converged Access for a More Agile Enterprise A new convergence trend is making its way through the enterprise: converged user access across wired and wireless networks. Driving this trend is the need to accommodate a dizzying array of devices and data, communicating wirelessly from a variety of locations across and outside of the enterprise. View now >> In this Issue Review: VMware Workstation 10 turns to tablets Cloud industry needs to standardize, says Fed CIO Firefox OS likely to face HTML5, Boot-to-Gecko process attacks Inflatable antenna would give tiny satellites great reach Cisco's storage alliances safe... for now Low-end systems saved HPC market in Q2 Start-up offers IT security rating system Cisco takes aim at security services with new division IBM sells customer care outsourcing unit for $505 million WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications SDN: The next wave of networking innovation Brocade and IDG bring you this exclusive eBook exploring the impact of today's IT and Data Center challenges on your network. With a focus on software-defined networks, use this eBook to start your evolution toward a flatter, less complex and more agile network architecture—an architecture ready for the future. View Brocade's eBook on SDN Review: VMware Workstation 10 turns to tablets The best desktop virtualization software for techs adds support for Surface Pro sensors and more polish. Read More Cloud industry needs to standardize, says Fed CIO Frank Baitman, the CIO of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, was at the Amazon Web Services conference praising the company's services. His talk was on the verge of becoming a long infomercial, when he stepped back and changed direction. Read More Firefox OS likely to face HTML5, Boot-to-Gecko process attacks The Firefox OS, a new contender in mobile operating systems, will likely see HTML5-related attacks and assaults on a crucial operating system process, according to security vendor Trend Micro. Read More WEBCAST: HP HP Mobile App Development Survey Join John Jeremiah, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, HP and John Jackson, Research Vice President, Mobile & Connected Platforms, IDC for an interactive discussion on the results of the HP Mobile Application Development Maturity Peer Assessment Tool. Date: September 18 @ 1:00pm EDT Register Now Inflatable antenna would give tiny satellites great reach Satellites the size of shoe boxes, which are expected to one day let researchers explore space more economically, will soon have a much longer reach. Read More Cisco's storage alliances safe... for now Will Cisco's acquisition of flash memory company WHIPTAIL strain relations with storage partners EMC and NetApp -- any more than they are already strained? Perhaps so, but only when those companies ramp up their own flash storage products. Read More Low-end systems saved HPC market in Q2 Increasing sales of cheaper systems helped fuel growth in the high-performance computing (HPC) sector during the second quarter, while interest in high-end supercomputers cooled. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More Start-up offers IT security rating system It's not uncommon for companies to want to try and evaluate the IT security of another business before entering into an e-commerce arrangement. Now a start-up, BitSight Technologies, is out with what it calls a "rating" service to do exactly this, though there are limits to how far it can go at this point. Read More Cisco takes aim at security services with new division Cisco today said it would add a security arm to its existing services division with an eye toward pushing its support of its security products as well as offering a range of managed security services. Read More IBM sells customer care outsourcing unit for $505 million Citing low profit margins, IBM has sold its customer care outsourcing business to Synnex for US$505 million, the companies said Tuesday. Read More
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