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	9 must-do's if you must stick with Windows XP Without updates after April 8, Windows XP is expected to fall prey to any number of zero-day attacks for which Microsoft will provide no defense, but there are some things die-hard XP users can do to make their machines safer. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Infoblox A Cybercriminal's Guide to Exploiting DNS Stories about cyberattacks are plaguing the news more every week. Is your network secure? Take a detour through the eyes of the cybercriminals who are making today's headlines. Read this white paper and see your network the way hackers do—as an easy target. Learn how you can secure your external and internal DNS infrastructure today. Read now! In this Issue CIOs grappling with software bloat, survey finds 30 richest techies in the world Android-based malware: the good, the bad and the ugly Choosing Office 365 for the Enterprise Career trends: IBM rolls "Master the Mainframe World Championship" Survey: 11% of Americans think HTML is an STD, software is 'comfortable clothing' Red Hat polishes business process management suite NEC scales OpenFlow SDNs A wish list for Windows 9 Attack campaign compromises 300,000 home routers, alters DNS settings WHITE PAPER: VMware Ebook: A Guide to Hybrid Cloud Hybrid cloud allows you to augment your internal data center resources, providing a flexible and cost-effective solution for a variety of use cases. This eBook presents an inside-out approach for extending your data center to the cloud. Learn more! CIOs grappling with software bloat, survey finds More and more corporate IT departments around the world are straining under the weight of unnecessary software applications, according to a survey by systems integrator Capgemini. Read More 30 richest techies in the world Forbes came out with its list of billionaires and techies make an impressive showing on the list. Read More Android-based malware: the good, the bad and the ugly When it comes to mobile devices, it's well known that malware writers like to target Android. But a threat report published today by security firm F-Secure puts in perspective why Android malware attacks often flop and why Android itself is no pushover. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Increasing the Value of Your Reports and Dashboards Learn how incorporating other analytical capabilities such as predictive modeling and visualization can increase the value of your reports and dashboards by providing insight from complex data or predicting a future outcome. Register Now Choosing Office 365 for the Enterprise Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud hosted service that effectively provides Microsoft Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, OneDrive Pro and Yammer on a monthly fee basis. Instead of organizations having to setup, configure, patch, upgrade, update, and backup systems, Microsoft takes care of all of the "backend" server tasks. Read More Career trends: IBM rolls "Master the Mainframe World Championship" Keeping the mainframe relevant to newer, younger generations of budding IT workers has been an IBM strategy for years -- a largely successful one at that according to most experts. Read More Survey: 11% of Americans think HTML is an STD, software is 'comfortable clothing' A "coupons website" called Vouchercloud.net polled 2,392 Americans surprisingly aged 18 and older about the meanings of popular technology-related terms, with expectedly hilarious results for small-but-not-insignificant swaths of the American public. Read More WHITE PAPER: Collaborative Consulting The Onshoring of IT Services Since the late 1990s, offshoring has become a deeply entrenched practice at many North American organizations. However, changing economic factors and the emergence of formerly hidden problems with offshoring have led Gartner to look at compelling alternatives, notably domestic rural sourcing. Learn More Red Hat polishes business process management suite Thanks to its 2012 acquisition of Polymita, Red Hat has added major functionality to its software suite for managing business processes, making the package an appealing choice in the enterprise market for BPM (business process management) software. Read More NEC scales OpenFlow SDNs NEC this week rolled out a new version of its SDN software that includes an OpenFlow-based method for interconnecting data centers. Read More A wish list for Windows 9 I have to give Reddit some credit for becoming the place where people make amazing admissions. The Ask Me Anything (AMA) threads are always interesting, fascinating and sometimes shocking. A few weeks back, a Windows interface designer did an AMA with some shocking admissions that will either cost him his job or were approved at the top levels of the company. Read More Attack campaign compromises 300,000 home routers, alters DNS settings A group of attackers managed to compromise 300,000 home and small-office wireless routers, altering their settings to use rogue DNS servers, according to Internet security research organization Team Cymru. Read More
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