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	Cisco UCS 2.0: Flashy new data center servers revealed Cisco this week unveiled the second generation of its successful data center server system with versions that incorporate solid state flash memory designed to speed data access and cut power usage. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix and Palo Alto Networks Secure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure This guide explores VDI and how next-generation firewalls are becoming the latest tool in protecting your network while ensuring performance and scalability. Read more to learn about: • Ensuring optimal security • Network-layer protection • Securing remote access Learn more In this Issue An open letter to Microsoft's next CEO: 12 wishes from the Windows faithful HP envisions the holistic data center Detroit wants its own high-tech visa Your backup drive needs a backup plan: Three ways to safeguard the data Microsoft retains weapon to silently scrub XP Amazon improves performance and cuts cost of data warehouse service Amazon and Microsoft drop cloud storage prices by up to 50% Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Two's Enough Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Fortinet Key Security Considerations for the Data Center As a result of virtualization, bandwidth-consuming applications, and the deployment of 40GbE and soon 100GbE, your Data Center firewall security will need to support throughput over 100Gbps to prevent it from becoming a bottleneck. John Grady, in an IDC Analyst Connection answers key questions regarding protecting the heart of the Enterprise Read IDC Analyst Connection, Protecting the Heart of the Enterprise: Key Security Considerations for the DataCenter An open letter to Microsoft's next CEO: 12 wishes from the Windows faithful We billion-plus customers would like the next head honcho in Redmond to address these dozen action items Read More HP envisions the holistic data center Hewlett-Packard has launched a set of services designed to help organizations manage their data centers more efficiently, using the principles of DCIM (data center infrastructure management). Read More Detroit wants its own high-tech visa Detroit, a city in bankruptcy and dealing with a shrinking population, hopes to turn itself around with the help of 50,000 employment-based green cards. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE Rompetrol Case Study After a successful acquisition and growth phase, Rompetrol turned its energy into improving global operations by consolidating IT operations and launching a series of IT initiatives including an SAP rollout and a move toward private cloud. Learn More Your backup drive needs a backup plan: Three ways to safeguard the data Congratulations on backing up your PC--but you aren't as safe as you may think you are. Files on your backup drive can be just as vulnerable to disaster as files on your main system are. Most recently, CryptoLocker demonstrated that an external drive connected to a PC--a secondary hard drive, for example, or an external USB hard drive used for backup--could fall victim to ransomware just as easily as the PC on the other end of the cable. Read More Microsoft retains weapon to silently scrub XP Microsoft will be able to silently reach into Windows XP PCs for more than a year after it stops patching the aged OS to clean malware-infected machines, sources close to the company confirmed. Read More Amazon improves performance and cuts cost of data warehouse service Amazon Web Services has improved the performance of its Redshift data warehouse with new SSD-based nodes, which can also lower the cost of the service as long as storage capacity needs are also low. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Pitfalls To Avoid In Combining Acceleration Technologies This May 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. report looks at the impact of website performance on customer satisfaction and revenue, and why meeting high expectations is more complex than ever. Learn More Amazon and Microsoft drop cloud storage prices by up to 50% First, Amazon dropped the price of its S3 cloud storage service by 22%. Now, Microsoft has followed suit by cutting the price for Azure by up to 50% to keep up. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Two's Enough Edition No. 30 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, collected from various corners of the Internet, addresses a curious practice that I've never quite understood. But I've seen enough people do it; children and adults. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": 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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