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	Meet the man behind Silk Road, online drug market seized by FBI The FBI arrested the proprietor of Silk Road, the industry-leading online black market for buying and selling drugs, in San Francisco yesterday, according to several reports. Read More   WEBCAST: Dell VMware How to Transform IT into a Center of Business Innovation Although IT supports virtually every business process, many organizations are hard-pressed to take advantage of technology advances when they're trapped into spending most of the IT budget on maintenance instead of innovation. View Now In this Issue SCADA and Me: Images from the picture book primer HP says open sourcing SDNs is wrong Online "revenge porn" gets a smack-down. More on the way? IT purchasing: Who decides what tech to buy? 12 best places to land a tech job Monsanto bets nearly $1 billion on big data analytics Solving the customer experience riddle: A Q&A with two experts New 'white spaces' research from Microsoft and China makes it easier to find vacant spectrum Big-hitter investors want Gates out as Microsoft chairman How to Close the Big Data Skills Gap by Training Your IT Staff 10 Dumbest Things Tech CEOs Have Said and Done WEBCAST: Dell VMware An End-to-End Approach to Data Protection Traditional approaches to data protection are no longer enough. Why not? Because data volumes are exploding. Because there's little or no tolerance for data loss and downtime. Because IT organizations have limited resources. View Now SCADA and Me: Images from the picture book primer Taking the complexity out of a pervasive security threat to power grids, water supplies, industrial plants Read More   HP says open sourcing SDNs is wrong Vendors such as Juniper Networks that are open sourcing their SDN controllers are pursuing a wrongheaded strategy that misses the point of the technology, HP officials said this week. Read More   Online "revenge porn" gets a smack-down. More on the way? Call it a modern day love story: Boy meets girl; they "like" each other; they privately sext naked pics of each other to celebrate; girl loses interest, breaks it off; guy responds by posting previously private pics to Internet site specializing in revenge; girl has little recourse, suffers much humiliation, ridicule. Read More   IT purchasing: Who decides what tech to buy? Lowe's knows a thing or two about buying and selling, so it means something that the Mooresville, N.C., home improvement retailer established a procurement department to help its various divisions make better deals. Read More   12 best places to land a tech job Read More   Monsanto bets nearly $1 billion on big data analytics Agribusiness giant Monsanto is paying US$930 million to acquire the Climate Corporation, maker of a software platform that crunches weather-related data in order to help farmers more effectively grow crops. Read More   Solving the customer experience riddle: A Q&A with two experts Riddle this: All your core performance metrics are glowing green, but customers on the other end of the network are still cursing your service. How can IT get to the root of the problem? Read More   New 'white spaces' research from Microsoft and China makes it easier to find vacant spectrum Identifying and using vacant "white space" spectrum for Wi-Fi may get simpler, more efficient, and cheaper thanks to a new project by Microsoft and a team of Chinese researchers. Read More   Big-hitter investors want Gates out as Microsoft chairman   A trio of the top 20 investors in Microsoft, anxious about the selection of the company's next CEO, have asked the board to push Bill Gates out of his chairman's spot, according to a report by Reuters. Read More   How to Close the Big Data Skills Gap by Training Your IT Staff Research firms paint a dire picture of a massive big data skills gap that will get worse over time. But companies like Persado, which uses big data to help marketers optimize their messages, are finding success training their existing staff in the new big data technologies. Read More   10 Dumbest Things Tech CEOs Have Said and Done As a rule, CEOs in the technology industry tend to be a pretty bright group. Their vision, passion and leadership have changed the world. BUT they also have moments that leave the rest of us wondering, "Are they really that dumb?" Read More
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