Networking World: Verizon: Web apps are the security punching bag of the Internet

Apple offers free recycling of its products worldwide | Juniper opens arms to OpenDaylight

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Verizon: Web apps are the security punching bag of the Internet
Verizon today issued its annual data-breach investigations report, a study of what happened in 1,367 known cases across dozens of industries in 95 countries last year, and the most common form of attack was breaking in through Web applications. Read More

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WHITE PAPER: Spirent

Hardware Test is the Key to Accurate Network Testing
Surprisingly, many organizations are not adequately testing their networks. Network testing is crucial for any IT organization that wants to ensure availability, security and performance of applications and services running on their networks. Learn More

Apple offers free recycling of its products worldwide
Apple is offering to recycle its products for free worldwide, and has included even third-party products like mobile phones and PCs in the program in some countries. Read More

Juniper opens arms to OpenDaylight
Juniper has submitted a plugin for its open source SDN controller to the OpenDaylight Project, an effort Juniper's a member of but has publicly dismissed. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology

Little Ways WAN Optimization Can Benefit Your Organization
You know that WAN optimization has evolved into a complete system that optimizes traffic across a broad range of most popular applications while providing deep visibility into performance. However, today's comprehensive solutions can improve just about every major IT initiative. Learn more>>

IT Departments Not Losing Ground to Managed Service Providers (Yet)
Many business users say they're fed up with what they perceive as sluggish IT departments, but cringe at the thought of outsourcing to a managed services provider. However, the rise of BYOD, consumer tech and cloud computing may be clearing a path for change. Read More

4 things to do now to get ready for the Internet of Things
As CIO at Boeing, Ted Colbert is no stranger to the Internet of Things. For more than a decade, the aerospace giant has deployed thousands of communications-enabled smart devices to sense, control and exchange data across the factory floor, on the battlefield, and within the company's 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Read More

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Compose a software Management Symphony
Keeping track of your organization's software is easy with effective software management solutions from CDW. View the videos in our software solutions channel View Now

Most but not all sites have fixed Heartbleed flaw
The world's top 1,000 websites have been patched to protect their servers against the "Heartbleed" exploit, but up to 2% of the top million were still vulnerable as of last week. Read More

New products of the week 4.21.14
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Riverbed and MongoDB Read More

INSIDER

3D printing will transform these five industries
The 3D printing world is currently in limbo – the technology is developed enough to attract some attention in the real world, but not enough to bring about change on a substantial scale. New stories emerge everyday of 3D printing breakthroughs, be it through research or the development of actual products. Read More

INSIDER

Open source pitfalls – and how to avoid them
It's hard to imagine a company these days that isn't using open source software somewhere, whether it's Linux running a company's print and web servers, the Firefox browser on user desktops, or the Android operating system on mobile devices. Read More

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10 Big Data startups to watch

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