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	Cisco to launch Insieme Nov. 6 It's official, but a month later than Cisco initially planned: Insieme Networks will debut in New York on Nov. 6. Read More     In this Issue 8 hot IT skills for 2014 Oracle makes 'big data' push even bigger Ballmer: Three-layered plan will lead to 'One Microsoft' How to Overcome Small Business Data Recovery Challenges Alcatel-Lucent SDN company puts bare metal to the pedal 'A man wearing an iMac on his head' 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 8 hot IT skills for 2014 When it comes to overall job prospects for IT professionals, 2014 will look a lot like this year, with 32% of companies expecting to increase head count in their IT shops, compared with 33% in 2013, according to Computerworld's annual Forecast survey. Read More   Oracle makes 'big data' push even bigger Oracle is doubling down on "big data" with a number of new products and enhancements to existing ones, in hopes that customers looking to analyze massive amounts of information for business insights will in turn invest further in Oracle. Read More   Ballmer: Three-layered plan will lead to 'One Microsoft' It's been two months since Steve Ballmer unfurled his plan to restructure Microsoft's operations, and inquiring minds would like to know what stage the process is at. Read More   How to Overcome Small Business Data Recovery Challenges   Data recovery has mattered ever since businesses started relying on PCs in the workplace. Today's common storage options for small businesses all present some disaster recovery challenges. Here's what your organization should do to address them. Read More   WHITE PAPER: F5 Gartner: Load Balancers are Dead IT organizations that shift to modern ADCs will improve application performance and security, streamline data center operations, and offload common functions from application development to the ADC infrastructure. These changes will bring positive benefits to both IT operations and internal and external users. Read more now Alcatel-Lucent SDN company puts bare metal to the pedal Nuage Networks, the SDN company of Alcatel-Lucent, has rolled out a gateway for linking bare metal servers to its virtual network environment. Read More   'A man wearing an iMac on his head' Reuters offers us this photo today among a selection of others showing people waiting to buy the new iPhone in Japan. The headgear is intentionally absurd, of course - and, yes, I noticed the promotion of a Web site, which I can report is not porn - but what struck me even more was the matter-of-fact nature of the Reuters caption, which reads: Read More
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