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	CES 2014 Highlights: M2M, Connected Homes and Cars, Sponsored Data Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Virtualizing Your Infrastructure with a Path to the Cloud IT needs to deliver more services, with greater agility and a high level of availability while keeping operational expenses low. This paper explains 5 reasons to deploy blades as you build out your virtualized infrastructure. Learn More In this Issue T-Mobile's John Legere: Genius, joker or jerk? The Internet of Things: Top five threats to IoT devices Cisco takes TV to the cloud Internet of Ca-chings Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Ruined Proposal Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks 7 Principles to Improve Web Site Availability Users hate to wait so when your web site doesn't respond the way visitors expect, your business suffers. This guide offers strategies for scaling your web infrastructure to meet web availability and performance SLAs, enhancing both speed and performance (there is a difference), and delivering superior user experience on any device, in any location. Learn More T-Mobile's John Legere: Genius, joker or jerk? Rebel T-Mobile CEO riles rivals, adds much needed life to tech executive ranks Read More The Internet of Things: Top five threats to IoT devices The Internet of Things (IoT) is a mass of billions of connected devices from cars to wireless wearable products. Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group estimated 12.5 billion connected devices in existence globally as of 2010 with that number doubling to 25 billion by 2015. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Load Balancers Are Officially Dead The time for stand-alone load balancers has passed! Download this Gartner report to learn how enterprises can utilize application delivery controllers to streamline datacenter operations and improve application performance and security. Learn 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." New software for Videoscape, unveiled at the CES conference in Las Vegas, enables private and public cloud deployment. It is designed to give service providers and media companies options to quickly deliver consumer TV services, including customized and personalized content viewing and sharing, and second screen and 4Kvideo offerings. 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: Dell and Oracle Consolidating Oracle OLTP Workloads on Dell PowerEdge R720xd This white paper quantifies the advantages of consolidating Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads on to a single Dell PowerEdge R720xd server. Read now>> 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
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