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	Best Instagram accounts of enterprise technology companies Cisco, CA, IBM all diving deep into Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Read More   WEBCAST: CenturyLink Technology Solutions Building a Big Data solution that's production-ready To realize game-changing insights, operate with unprecedented speed and agility, and gain true competitive edge, harnessing big data's power has become nothing less than mission-critical. In this webinar, experts explore solution strategies and best practices for deploying a production-ready big data environment. Learn more In this Issue 11 tips to prepare for SDN If Microsoft gives away Windows Phone 8, will anyone take it? Security Skills Haves and Have Nots Google Glass gets an extremely useful use case Amazon increases Prime membership from $79 to $99 How Aruba Networks is targeting 'GenMobile' workers 12 hot cloud computing startups to watch: Product photo gallery Google slashes Drive prices by as up to 80% Samsung spokesman LeBron James tweets that his phone self-erased Why Software Testing Can't Save You From IT Disasters Best ways to Celebrate Pi Day 2014 WHITE PAPER: CDW Mobile Policy Checklist Here's what to consider when putting together a mobile policy designed to support a highly productive workforce. Read Now 11 tips to prepare for SDN Making the leap to SDN? Don't jump in blind. It helps to know what software-defined networking is, first off, and then what it can do for you. Read More   If Microsoft gives away Windows Phone 8, will anyone take it? Rumors and speculation have swirled on this for months, but now it's official: Microsoft is giving away Windows Phone for free, at least to a pair of Indian handset makers. If this can drive sales, it might become a worldwide policy, which could be the game-changer Microsoft needs and wants. Read More   Security Skills Haves and Have Nots I've written a lot lately about the cybersecurity skills shortage. For example, 25% of organizations claim that they have a problematic shortage of IT security skills. On an industry basis, 36% of government agencies say they have a problematic shortage of IT security skills, followed by 29% of manufacturing companies, and 28% of financial services firms. Read More   Google Glass gets an extremely useful use case The one market in which Google Glass is universally expected to have a major impact is healthcare. At Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, it's already paying dividends. Read More   Amazon increases Prime membership from $79 to $99 When Amazon released its earnings results this past January, company CFO Tom Szkuatak alluded to the fact that Amazon may very well have to increase the cost of its popular Amazon Prime service to offset increased costs. Read More   How Aruba Networks is targeting 'GenMobile' workers This week, Aruba Networks is holding its Atmosphere event in Las Vegas. Atmosphere is actually a collection of conferences – Airheads user event, Partner Summit, Investor day, and an IT Executive Forum - so it provided a great venue for Aruba to announce its Mobility Defined Networks (MDN) architecture. The primary driver of an MDN is the changes in network traffic and user behavior from the rise... Read More   12 hot cloud computing startups to watch: Product photo gallery Cloud management, development, security and more Read More   Google slashes Drive prices by as up to 80% Google announced Thursday that it is dramatically cutting its prices for its cloud storage service by as much as 80%. Read More   Samsung spokesman LeBron James tweets that his phone self-erased Samsung sure likes trotting out celebrities to help sell their products, but sometimes doing so leads to embarassment. In the most recent example, long-time Samsung ambassador and NBA superstar LeBron James recently tweeted that his phone, presumably a Samsung Galaxy of some sort, had erased everything. Read More   Why Software Testing Can't Save You From IT Disasters Some software bugs are like the cicadia, emerging only under the 'right' conditions and wreaking havoc until they're stopped. Without the right tools, no amount of software testing can stop these bugs from causing a meltdown. Just ask Nasdaq. Read More   Best ways to Celebrate Pi Day 2014 Pi is 3.14 (about), so that makes March 14 Pi Day Read More
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