Avago agrees to buy LSI for $6.6 billion

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	Avago agrees to buy LSI for $6.6 billion Semiconductor company Avago Technologies has agreed to buy storage and networking company LSI for US$6.6 billion in an effort to expand its data center offerings. Read More WHITE PAPER: Exablox Storage Switzerland: Unstructured Data Storage Unstructured data (data that's outside of databases), is growing at an out-of-control pace in organizations of all sizes. Read now! In this Issue 3 Trends That Will Make Life Harder for CIOs in 2014 Moving a city to Linux needs political backing, says Munich project leader How to Keep Cloud-Based Data Safe Coming in 2014: MacBooks as fast as data center servers As Unix fades away from data centers, it's unclear what's next 4 Tech Innovations That Improve Data Center Scalability 13 FREE! Windows 8.1 apps to make you more productive WHITE PAPER: VCE First Real Look at the Integrated Systems Market The word is out that the market for integrated systems is a key growth area for data center hardware infrastructure. This Gartner report sizes the market and profiles early leaders in this important and emerging area in three segments. Learn More. Learn More 3 Trends That Will Make Life Harder for CIOs in 2014 Robots, 3-D printers and wearable tech are indeed cool, but they should raise red flags for IT leaders. Here's how these emerging technologies will cause operations, privacy and user policy headaches for CIOs in 2014. Read More Moving a city to Linux needs political backing, says Munich project leader This year saw the completion of the city of Munich's switch to Linux, a move that began about ten years ago. "One of the biggest lessons learned was that you can't do such a project without continued political backing," said Peter Hofmann, the leader of the LiMux project, summing up the experience. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco and Netapp Total Economic Impact Of FlexPod Data Center Platform FlexPod is a data center platform jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco that delivers networking, computing and storage. This Forrester report offers key findings from Forrester's interviews with FlexPod customers. View Now How to Keep Cloud-Based Data Safe A real-estate brokerage opts to back up critical documents stored in Google Drive. Read More Coming in 2014: MacBooks as fast as data center servers DRAMeXchange expects second-generation PCIe to replace SATA III in servers and higher-end laptops as the interface of choice for manufacturers, including Apple. Read More WHITE PAPER: AppNeta AppNeta Trace View - Free Trial Download Want to try AppNeta in your own application environment? Install in 5 minutes! Learn More As Unix fades away from data centers, it's unclear what's next Gartner says that its clients have started planning to migrate from Unix. For some of them, it may take two or three years, and for others, five years. A few may still be running Unix 10 years from now, but nonetheless, Gartner believes the operating system is on a path to insignificance. Read More 4 Tech Innovations That Improve Data Center Scalability In today's business environment, companies are expected to grow quickly. This means their data centers must grow quickly, too. These four technological advances will help firms scale up -- and down, when necessary -- so growth doesn't turn into a bad thing. Read More 13 FREE! Windows 8.1 apps to make you more productive From learning Windows shortcuts to remotely monitoring IT assets, Windows 8.1 devices can make you more efficient and effective Read More
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