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	Analyst: Save millions, don't renew Microsoft Enterprise Agreements Renewing Microsoft enterprise agreements – the contracts businesses sign for bulk licensing of Microsoft products – may be an unnecessary ritual that costs businesses millions of dollars for products and services they likely won't need before the contracts run out, according to an expert who helps customers negotiate the agreements. Read More   WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Fundamental Principles of Generators for IT Every IT professional who is responsible for the operation of computing equipment needs to ensure their data center or network room is prepared for extended utility power outages. This paper is an introduction to standby generators and subsystems that power a facility's critical electrical loads when the utility cannot. Learn more In this Issue These are cloud users' top 2 concerns Cisco takes TV to the cloud Kanye West moves to block Coinye -- a digital currency he inspired Why can't Microsoft find a CEO? CES 2014 celebrity watch: Tim Tebow, Janelle Monae & very Motley Crue @PolarVortex Twitter account is an arctic blast Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Java & Adobe Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive 2014's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries Trojan program hijacks World of Warcraft accounts despite two-factor authentication WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Specification of Modular Data Center Architecture There is a growing consensus that conventional legacy data center design will be superseded by modular scalable data center designs. This paper creates a framework for modular data center architecture and describes the various ways that modularity can be implemented for data center power, cooling, and space infrastructure. View now These are cloud users' top 2 concerns As a consultant advising clients about how to prepare a cloud adoption strategy, Ahmar Abbas hears lots of positive and negative thoughts. Read More   Cisco takes TV to the cloud Cisco this week extended its Videoscape Internet TV services platform into the cloud by adopting OpenStack orchestration to allow content providers to offer video "as-a-service." Read More   Kanye West moves to block Coinye -- a digital currency he inspired Attorneys for the American rapper Kanye West have filed a cease and desist letter against the makers of Coinye -- a Bitcoin-like digital currency that generated Internet chatter last week. Read More   Why can't Microsoft find a CEO? It's been more than four months since Steve Ballmer announced his plans to retire and we still don't have any white smoke coming from the chimney, figuratively speaking. Now, we weren't promised a fast fix. Microsoft doesn't suffer from the urgency of a company in serious trouble, or a case where there is no CEO. The board has said it will pick a successor to Steve Ballmer by the summer of 2014,... Read More   CES 2014 celebrity watch: Tim Tebow, Janelle Monae & very Motley Crue Stars of sports, music, movies and TV to get their geek on Read More   @PolarVortex Twitter account is an arctic blast An eagle-eyed weather watcher -- or slick marketer -- set up a Twitter account under the handle @PolarVortex last week, before the arctic air mass really began grabbing headlines, and is now telling social media users what the weather system really thinks, sometimes in NSFW language. Read More   Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Java & Adobe Edition No. 27 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series should require no explanation and made me laugh. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": And if you'd like me to consider one that you've found - or created - please feel free to send it to me at buzz@nww.com. Read More   Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. Read More   2014's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries A look back at the most memorable tech-related happenings of 1989 Read More   Trojan program hijacks World of Warcraft accounts despite two-factor authentication A new Trojan program is targeting users of the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft and is capable of hijacking accounts even if their owners use two-factor authentication. Read More
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