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	Riverbed may go private in a $3 billion deal An investment company wants to acquire the WAN optimization vendor Read More   In this Issue Oracle buys Corente for software-defined networking Predictions for Unified Communications in 2014, Part Two Predictions for Unified Communications in 2014, Part One Affordable Care? It's not even understandable ... 3 Powerful Laptops Built for Serious Business CIOs Must Balance Cloud Security and Customer Service Citrix buys Framehawk to give virtual desktops a boost 10 security, privacy issues you might not know about your car's auto-location services What to Look for When Hiring Social Media Tech Talent in 2014 Best of CES 2014: In Pictures Are time travelers surfing the Web? When Boomers say bye-bye WHITE PAPER: Meru Networks   Business Drivers For Adopting The Next Generation Of Wi-Fi Higher education, hospitality and healthcare are at the forefront of industries experiencing the tsunami of devices and applications coming onto their networks. Learn what is driving the next generation of Wi-Fi and what key business variables IT leaders have to consider when evaluating 802.11ac. 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   Predictions for Unified Communications in 2014, Part Two Read More   Predictions for Unified Communications in 2014, Part One Read More   Affordable Care? It's not even understandable ... Read More   WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Web Site Performance for the Speed of Business IT organizations must look beyond raw network speed to increase website performance and deliver the superior online user experiences that drive business. Web performance is a multi-layered problem, encompassing reliability, scalability and mobile reach as well as speed. Learn More 3 Powerful Laptops Built for Serious Business Looking for a laptop with serious processing power? CIO.com put three high-end laptops -- the Soni Vaio Flip 15, the HP ZBook 15 and the Acer Aspire V3 -- to the photo- and video-editing test to see which offers the best bang for the buck. Read More   CIOs Must Balance Cloud Security and Customer Service Cloud era brings government IT new challenge of keeping data secure while broadening user access. This will require federal CIOs to take a more granular approach to access and encryption. Read More   Citrix buys Framehawk to give virtual desktops a boost   Citrix Systems has acquired Framehawk for an undisclosed sum, and will use the company's technology to improve the performance of virtual desktops and applications over wireless networks. Read More   10 security, privacy issues you might not know about your car's auto-location services As cars become more wired to the Internet and other communications services, the threat that your personal information and privacy could be exploited goes up exponentially. You can understand the concerns since at least one study from Frost & Sullivan found that the market for telematics services provided by auto manufacturers in North America is expected to increase from 11.8 million subscribers in... Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell and Oracle   Consolidating Oracle Databases on the Dell PowerEdge This technical whitepaper describes how the Dell PowerEdge R820 server can be used for consolidating Oracle databases. The Dell PowerEdge 12th generation R820 is a 2U server supporting 4 sockets and 1.5 TB of memory which makes it a best fit for virtualization environments. Read now>> What to Look for When Hiring Social Media Tech Talent in 2014 Social media professionals need to have a specific set of communication and technical skills as well as varied experience if you expect them to be a strategic part of your business in 2014. Read More   Best of CES 2014: In Pictures Here's what's grabbing our attention right now at the sprawling CES 2014 gadget show in Las Vegas Read More   Are time travelers surfing the Web? If there are time travelers out there, they aren't talking about it on Twitter or Facebook. At least according to research conducted by Michigan Technological University which this week published a paper "Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers." +MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2013+ Read More   When Boomers say bye-bye A lousy economy led many Baby Boomers to put off retiring, but companies shouldn't count on such delays to anchor their IT workforce planning initiatives. Now's the time to plan for the retirement of key talent -- and the legacy systems they built -- before those pros leave the workforce. Read More
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