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Capital letter 'S,' 'D,' 'N' will never happen
Rack and stack that network and then walk away and leave it alone. VMware's NSX technology will provide all the control necessary going forward, says Steve Mullaney, senior vice president and general manager of VMware's Networking & Security Business Unit. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Attachmate

Why your existing solution might not be adequate
To meet the demands of today's business landscape, IT staffs must take steps to secure and integrate their information assets, while satisfying compliance mandates and optimizing corporate efficiency. This white paper presents managed file transfer (MFT) as a way to meet corporate information and data management requirements. Read More

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WEBCAST: PC Connection

Achieve the Benefits of a Converged Infrastructure
Learn how the Dell PowerEdge VRTX and makes it possible to achieve the benefits of a converged infrastructure in a small office environment (small business, remote offices, or mobile environments) with this versatile, simple, and efficient platform. Learn More

INSIDER

How to keep your Millennials happy
The much-anticipated wave of Millennials is upon us, with their addiction to social media, their attachment to consumer devices and their merging of work and personal lives. Read More

Feds to dump CGI from Healthcare.gov project
The Obama Administration is set to fire CGI Federal as prime IT contractor of the problem-plagued Healthcare.gov website, a report says. Read More

Dell says it is open to layoffs as rumors swirl
Dell on Thursday declined to confirm a report of employee layoffs, but said it could make decisions related to the workforce if necessary in order to maintain company stability. Read More

WEBCAST: IBM

Fighting Fraud Videos: IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager
Short videos about IBM Intelligent Investigation Manager (IIM) for Fraud. IIM optimizes the investigation of fraud for customers across many industries in both the commercial and public sector space. Learn More.

Riverbed may go private in a $3 billion deal
Investment company Elliott Management has offered to buy WAN optimization vendor Riverbed Technology for just over $3 billion while giving Riverbed a chance to entertain higher bids. Read More

Juniper SDN veteran lands at Brocade
Brocade has named former Cisco and Juniper engineer Benson Schliesser as distinguished engineer, responsible for helping shape the company's network virtualization strategy. Read More

Internet of Ca-chings
The Internet of Everything could generate $4.6 trillion in value for public sector organizations over the next decade by helping them save money, improve employee productivity, generate new revenue without increasing taxes, and enhancing citizen benefits. So says a new Cisco study released at this week's CES conference. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

An ROI Analysis of Virtualized WAN Optimization Software
The Enterprise Strategy Group discusses how data center consolidation, virtualization, and cloud architectures are on the rise; however IT budgets are not increasing. This poses a unique challenge: How do you crease a flexible and agile environment without increasing the cost? Learn more >>

Oracle buys Corente for software-defined networking
Oracle is buying Corente, maker of SDN (software-defined networking) technology for WANs (wide area networks), in a strike against competitors such as Cisco and IBM. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close early this year, weren't disclosed on Tuesday. Read More

Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Ruined Proposal Edition
No. 28 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, gleaned from the Internet, demonstrates both the risks associated with target advertising and those of sharing a computer. The good news is that she said yes. 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

SLIDESHOWS

The worst data breach incidents of 2013

These businesses and government agencies lost the most personal and financial records due to hackers or security mishaps last year.

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