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	Fake Windows tech support calls still plague consumers More than a year after the FTC heralded a major crackdown on fraudsters posing as Microsoft technical support personnel, consumers continue to receive calls from scammers. Read More   WHITE PAPER: VMware The Clear Path to Cloud Security, Compliance, & Cost Control Both customers and IT decision makers are concerned about cloud security, according to recent research. How can you negotiate this barrier to realize the benefits of cloud computing? Read this paper to learn about the techniques, tools, and technologies that will enable you to capitalize on the cloud safely and cost-effectively. Read Now In this Issue 18 cool apps that online journalists are using INSIDER How IT found savings by tackling (instead of cringing at) photocopiers Mars manned mission: "2018 is our last chance to be first" Open disdain toward .gifs proves unforgivable on Twitter This is how Amazon cleans its servers when customers are done with them Top 10 Cloud Computing Certifications SC13: Experts debate thorny exascale memory issues Tricorders on the way! Scan me, Scotty! Second take: The iPad Air sets a new benchmark for performance and style New OpenSUSE embraces 64-bit ARM Federal CIOs Look to Platform-as-a-Service for Software Development 20-plus eye-popping Black Friday tablet, computer & tech deals WHITE PAPER: IBM Managing Threats in the Digital Age The topic of security is now unquestionably a C-suite priority. An enterprise that delegates security matters solely to the CIO is compounding its risk factors. Organizations need to move toward a more systematic and proactive approach to addressing security threats and managing compliance requirements. Read Now 18 cool apps that online journalists are using Creativity reaching new heights thanks to latest photography, graphics, audio and video tools Read More     INSIDER How IT found savings by tackling (instead of cringing at) photocopiers Say the word 'photocopier,' and most IT leaders have visions of skilled workers wasting time undoing paper jams. But for Karl Collins, vice president of technical services and infrastructure at SavaSeniorCare, IT's newfound ownership of enterprise-wide photocopiers has yielded $739,000 annual savings and increased visibility among executives. Read More   Mars manned mission: "2018 is our last chance to be first"   It seems that US human space-trip to Mars grow ever-more unlikely each time Congress talks about NASA and the budget. Read More   Open disdain toward .gifs proves unforgivable on Twitter   An intolerance of my liberal politics I could understand. And the fact that I tweet unabashedly in support of Boston's generally loathed sports franchises? No telling how many Twitter followers that habit has cost me. But never would I have imagined losing a tweep just because I had the temerity to diss the .gif. Yet take a look: Read More   This is how Amazon cleans its servers when customers are done with them Every day thousands of customers spin up and down virtual machines and make billions of requests for processes on the storage being held in the Amazon Web Services cloud. But what happens when a customer is done renting that hardware? Read More   Top 10 Cloud Computing Certifications Looking for a way to benchmark your cloud computing knowledge and skills? Want an extra edge when looking for that cloud computing job? Get cloud computing certified. Read More   SC13: Experts debate thorny exascale memory issues An expert panel at SC13 Tuesday said that solving the issues posed by modern memory technology will prove key to achieving exascale performance in supercomputing – but there was little agreement on the road map needed. Read More   Tricorders on the way! Scan me, Scotty! Read More   Second take: The iPad Air sets a new benchmark for performance and style Having spent a few weeks with the new iPad Air, columnist Michael deAgonia is ready to declare that it's a stunning improvement on what was already a rightfully successful tablet. Read More   New OpenSUSE embraces 64-bit ARM Joining Fedora and Ubuntu, the new version of the community driven OpenSUSE can now be run on AArch64 processors, further preparing the market for servers running on the new 64-bit ARM architecture. Read More   Federal CIOs Look to Platform-as-a-Service for Software Development A new survey of federal IT executives indicates strong interest in hosted application development to cut cost and improve efficiencies, though PaaS adoption currently remains weak. Read More   20-plus eye-popping Black Friday tablet, computer & tech deals Apple iPads, latest Android and Windows machines all in for big discounts. Oh, and free snow globes. Read More
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