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	Watch out Amazon: What IBM's $1.2B cloud investment really means In classic IBM marketing flavor, Big Blue announced today a big investment into the cloud: $1.2 billion over the next two years to significantly beef up its international data center footprint for its cloud. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DEMO Enterprise What's trending in wearable computing and digital money? Come to DEMO Enterprise, April 3 in SF to see the best new products in wearable computing, digital money, mobile, health, internet, enterprise, big data and more. All products are handpicked by top VC experts for their innovative design and market potential. Special offer to newsletter subscribers, register and save 40%. In this Issue Prediction: Windows 9 will hit the market in 2014 Why even ISPs will regret the end of net neutrality Innovation lives and dies with Net Neutrality Security nightmare worsens for Windows XP's end of days Cisco offers advice on Target breach Try Amazon's cloud for free, using Red Hat tools Wearables – I'm Not So Sure… Blogger beat: Google's cozy $3.2B Nest buy – and hopes it won't be too cozy Father of Apple iPod now works for Google Target's numbers on breach continue to miss the mark Stuff from CES you might actually use 3 Things enterprise IT can learn from the 2014 International CES WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc. Mobile Device Management Buyers Guide Mobile device management (MDM) solutions allow IT organizations to centrally manage, monitor and support mobile devices from smartphones to tablets. In this guide, you'll learn what you need to consider to find a MDM solution that best fits your needs. Learn More Prediction: Windows 9 will hit the market in 2014 So the conventional wisdom now is that Threshold, the codenamed next major update to Windows, will be branded Windows 9 to lose the taint of unlucky 8 (ironic, since 8 is considered a lucky number by the Chinese) and ship in early 2015. What amuses me is how many people are buying it. I guess so much news whizzes by us in the tech press on a daily basis that we forget rather easily. Read More Why even ISPs will regret the end of net neutrality On Tuesday, the The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Columbia Circuit said the FCC doen't doesn't have the authority to enforce its net neutrality rules. The ISPs and carriers typically maintain that net neutrality is a government plot to stifle networking investment. Read More Innovation lives and dies with Net Neutrality Routers have the built in capability to segregate traffic. With this court decision, there is nothing stopping network operators from doing the same with internet service, charging more for certain types of internet traffic. Read More Security nightmare worsens for Windows XP's end of days You all know (or better know) by now that Microsoft will end all support for Windows XP on April 8. Now the company is doubling down, saying it will end support for the XP version of Microsoft Security Essentials, the company's free security and antivirus application. That means no more updates, no more additions to the antivirus signatures, nothing. If a virus appears on April 9, you better have someone... Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. The Differences Between Network Memory & Application Caching Enterprises require an application acceleration solution that spans all types of traffic, one that is easy to manage, and 100% data coherency when supporting business-critical applications. This white paper will address these issues and offer a solution that addresses these enterprise requirements. Learn more >> Cisco offers advice on Target breach In the wake of the Target and Neiman Marcus data breaches, Cisco suggests encryption at the point-of-sale terminal. Read More Try Amazon's cloud for free, using Red Hat tools Red Hat, which is the largest single contributor to the OpenStack project, is now offering an opportunity to take a "test drive" on the biggest competitor to the OpenStack project: Amazon Web Services's cloud. Read More Wearables – I'm Not So Sure… I have heard from many people over the past two or three years how they no longer wear a wristwatch. The reason? Why bother - their smartphone does it all, and their smartphone goes with them everywhere. It's a little hard to argue with this logic - the user interfaces, richness of the information and the experience, and fundamental connectivity of the smartphone easily encompass the primary function... Read More Blogger beat: Google's cozy $3.2B Nest buy – and hopes it won't be too cozy Google's $3.2 billion buyout of smart thermostat and fire alarm system company Nest caught many by surprise, but those who have been following Nest recognize that this is a deal that was meant to be. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Tipping Point Defending Against Increasingly Sophisticated Cyber Attacks The modern cyber threat landscape requires enterprise organizations to be more vigilant than ever in their mission to protect sensitive data and network resources. This paper will outline the top factors that enterprise organizations should consider when evaluating an IPS deployment. Learn More Father of Apple iPod now works for Google Google today said it would buy Nest, the ever-so-cool home automation firm co-founded by former Apple engineer Tony Fadell in 2010 for $3.2 billion. Read More Target's numbers on breach continue to miss the mark The first word from Target was that 40 million customers had been victimized in its devastating data breach. That was corrected up to 70 million. Read More Stuff from CES you might actually use Last week's International CES brought about another slew of hyped products, ranging from curved television sets (I'm still not clear on why that's supposed to be so cool) to virtual-reality goggles meant to compete with the still-in-beta Google Glass product. While my main job was to shoot video segments for IDG Enterprise (you can see some of the results in this post, as well as in our video section),... Read More 3 Things enterprise IT can learn from the 2014 International CES The International CES trade show that inundated Las Vegas and dominated tech headlines last week is no longer called the Consumer Electronics Show, but it's still all about consumer technology. That said, I found plenty of lessons for enterprise networking and technology professionals sprinkled among the more than 150,000 attendees, 3,000 exhibitors, and 2 million square feet of show floor. Here are... Read More
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