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	Big Data skills pay top dollar If you're in tech, it pays to be in big data. Nine of the top 10 highest paying IT salaries are for languages, databases and skills related to big data. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc Gartner's Unified Communications as a Service Report See what Gartner Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory firm, has to say about choosing the right Unified Communications solution for your business. Gartner's Magic Quadrant compares 16 of the leading UCaaS providers and names 8x8 a leader based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. 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This 2013 Mobile APM Report highlights best practices for meeting mobile app challenges and ensuring mobile app performance. Read more! Amazon Web Service now offers R on demand Amazon Web Services now offers a hosted version of the R programming language, providing an easy way for individuals and organizations to start and test their big-data-styled analysis projects. Read More Microsoft offers multifactor authentication to all Office 365 users Microsoft is offering multifactor authentication free as an option to all users of its Office 365 suite, a hosted set of Microsoft Office tools and applications. Read More Farewell free cloud storage: SugarSync starts charging for storage Soon after I became a cloud computing reporter for Network World I signed up for a bunch of different cloud services including Box, DropBox, Google Drive and Amazon Web Services. One other service I used, and liked quite a bit, was SugarSync. Read More WEBCAST: Mitel Networks Realizing the Value of Unified Communications This Knowledge Vault Exchange, sponsored by Mitel, is your one-stop resource center for everything UC—from scoping the landscape to building a winning business case and choosing the right solution. You'll find videos, social media and a host of other resources. Learn More Bill Gates tells Reddit he'll target cloud, Windows and Office in his new role at Microsoft As he starts work advising Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella on products, Bill Gates described his role to a Reddit chat group as also including agenda writing and setting performance standards, roles generally associated with the CEO. Read More Google subsidiary wins NASA lease to overhaul Moffett Field The U.S. government has chosen a Google subsidiary to rehabilitate Moffett Federal Airfield in Silicon Valley, a site that has hosted Google executives' fleet of private jets. Read More The Skyfence security gateway monitors and protects cloud apps As companies move more of their applications to the cloud, they need a new enforcement point to protect data. Skyfence Networks offers a security gateway that monitors user activity for all cloud applications and prevents unauthorized access by malicious insiders and criminals using stolen credentials. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Cloud Insight: 6 facts for defining a cloud strategy Misinformation may be the most daunting obstacle when building an IT infrastructure. To help you separate the facts from the hype, experts from HP Technology Consulting have created this informative guide to provide you with the insight you need to make decisions about successful cloud strategies. Read Now>> How Microsoft and Mobilespaces are using the cloud for MDM The most compelling mobile apps will drive more of enterprise IT into the cloud. Mobile Device Management (MDM) is shifting to the cloud, too. Read More Movirtu turns your tablet and laptop into a mobile phone Movirtu has unveiled CloudPhone, a software platform that lets users make and receive calls over Wi-Fi networks using their mobile phone numbers on tablets and laptops without a regular SIM card. Read More Red Hat and Hortonworks expand strategic Big Data alliance The two partners are working to make it easier than ever to bring Hadoop into the enterprise with an open hybrid cloud model and improved customer support collaboration. Read More MIT researchers resort to flash for Big Data storage An MIT research team next month will show off a networked system of flash storage devices they say beats relying on DRAM and networked hard disks to handle Big Data demands. Read More
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