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	Seagate releases 6TB hard drive, its fastest yet Seagate has released its first 6TB hard drive, saying that it was able to reach that capacity without using helium like rival Western Digital. Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Shortcomings of Tape and the Consequences Traditional tape backup has been a low-cost method of protecting valuable data for years. However, tape can be extremely cumbersome and time consuming, and can require a considerable amount of manual intervention to successfully perform regular backups. Some form of business impact analysis will help you understand the cost and risks of downtime. Learn More In this Issue VMware: How the hypervisor can be security's savior Canonical to close Ubuntu One cloud-storage service Amazon super-sizes instances to lure Hadoop users to Web Services Western Digital's 'MyCloud' has been broken for 5 days Teradata's QueryGrid to power multi-database analytics Drone crashes into triathlete; operator blames 'hacker,' victim Saying 'thank-you' is nice, but beer is better Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive INSIDER 7 reasons to deploy Wi-Fi security in Enterprise mode WHITE PAPER: CDW Mobile Applications Case Study: 8 Billion Transactions a Day The story documents how the online brokerage company tradeMONSTER created a custom mobile app and the success gleaned from this initiative. Also covered are the five things to help assure solid ROI from a mobile application strategy. View Now VMware: How the hypervisor can be security's savior Hypervisors that virtualize the compute, networking and storage tiers provide a unique platform for enforcing security policies, VMware executives argued this week at Interop. Read More Canonical to close Ubuntu One cloud-storage service Canonical is shutting down its Ubuntu One cloud-storage service rather than continue to go up against competitors such as Dropbox, Google Drive and EMC Syncplicity. Read More Amazon super-sizes instances to lure Hadoop users to Web Services Amazon Web Services hopes to entice more Hadoop users to its Elastic MapReduce service with new virtual servers, one of which has 262GB of memory and 6.4TB of storage for big-data analytics. Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid How Backup Disk Architecture Impacts the Backup Window When data grows, backup windows expand. A common tactic today employs disk for backup combined to keep ahead of the backup window. But as Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan explains, selecting the right disk architecture is critical if you want to meet today's demands and avoid costly bottlenecks - and upgrades - in the future. Learn More Western Digital's 'MyCloud' has been broken for 5 days WDs My Cloud and My Book Live have been experiencing intermittent server issues that have disrupted remote access for customers attempting to connect to the cloud storage products for five days. Read More Teradata's QueryGrid to power multi-database analytics Teradata is hoping to gain ground in the hotly competitive data-warehousing and analytics market with QueryGrid, a new product that allows users to run a single SQL-based query across multiple data stores, from Teradata's own system to Hadoop and rival databases. Read More Drone crashes into triathlete; operator blames 'hacker,' victim These stories are going to become as commonplace as car accidents, given how quickly the skies are filling with insufficiently regulated aerial drones. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos, Inc. Endpoint Buyer's Guide Evaluating the many components that make up an endpoint security solution may seem overwhelming. Get independent research and test results to help you determine your requirements and identify the vendor that best meets your needs. Learn More Saying 'thank-you' is nice, but beer is better No. 38 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, this one spotted on Google+, features the Actual Advice Mallard at his most wise. He or she may prefer wine or a non-alcoholic gesture of gratitude, but the principle remains the same. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. Read More INSIDER 7 reasons to deploy Wi-Fi security in Enterprise mode Although it's tempting to use the Personal mode of Wi-Fi security, which is easy to setup and use, businesses and organizations really need to use the Enterprise mode of WPA2—also known as 802.11i. Although it requires a RADIUS server to do the 802.1X authentication and is more complex to setup, it provides superior Wi-Fi security and can save you time and money in the long run. Read More
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