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	Malcovery provides explicit intelligence so you can block today's top threats as they emerge Cyber attacks are so prolific today that you need every bit of intelligence available to make your security analysts and your security devices more effective. Malcovery Security offers a service that provides details about the top email-borne threats of the day as they are emerging so you can take proactive steps to block them. Read More WEBCAST: Brocade Communications Top 3 Network Challenges Limiting IT Agility Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT Are technical challenges preventing you from building cloud infrastructures? This Webinar will explain the top three challenges facing network architects today, along with the key steps for improving IT agility. View Now>> In this Issue Unplugging the data center The Internet of Things likely to drive an upheaval for security HP creates a new way to sell data centers White House Calls for Big Data and Cloud Privacy Overhaul In a world of complexity, focus on the basics Enterprises Are Not Monitoring Access to Sensitive Data IT Salaries for the 20 Hottest Tech Skills Afraid of the cloud? How to handle your fears Finally, good news in the war on patent trolls The changing fortunes of Net neutrality PODCAST: PC Connection | Cisco | Intel® Building Tomorrow's Infrastructure Listen to this podcast to discover how Crider Foods worked with PC Connection to update their IT infrastructure, while maintaining compliance and control. PC Connection's experts helped Crider deploy Cisco UCS with Intel® Xeon® processors as part of their total data center overhaul. Learn More Unplugging the data center Nathan McBride joined AMAG Pharmaceuticals in 2008 with an ambitious goal: to rebuild IT using as little internal infrastructure as possible. He succeeded. Read More The Internet of Things likely to drive an upheaval for security The Internet of Things is likely to bring 'a major inflection point in security' sooner than you think. Read More HP creates a new way to sell data centers Hewlett-Packard is selling its data center services in a new way, via a program it calls "facilities as a service," or FaaS. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM The Big Data Zoo—Taming the Beasts According to Dr. Devlin's white paper "The Big Data Zoo—Taming the Beasts", data is still data, whether big or small. It needs to be managed effectively if organizations want to be gain value from it. Although big data may present special challenges for IT organizations, the principles of data management haven't changed. Learn More White House Calls for Big Data and Cloud Privacy Overhaul Leading tech groups welcome call for data breach law and outdated cloud privacy statute, but warn against overreaching consumer privacy legislation. Read More In a world of complexity, focus on the basics Tony Sager has not only witnessed the revolutionary change in cybersecurity over the past several decades a he has lived it, through several decades with the National Security Agency (NSA). Read More Enterprises Are Not Monitoring Access to Sensitive Data If you want to make a cybersecurity professional uncomfortable, simply utter these two word: 'Data exfiltration.' Why will this term garner an emotional response? Because data exfiltration is a worst-case outcome of a cyber-attack - think Target, the NY Times, Google Aurora, Titan Rain, etc. Simply stated, 'data exfiltration' is a quasi-military term used to describe the theft of sensitive... Read More : RES Software Intuit Turns to Self-Service IT Intuit empowered its users to resolve their own IT issues with a consumer-like experience to free IT to focus on more strategic initiatives. See how Intuit got here Learn more IT Salaries for the 20 Hottest Tech Skills Unemployment rates in the IT industry remain low. That's good news for you because it means to compete for top tech talent companies are offering higher salaries. Read More Afraid of the cloud? How to handle your fears A study released this week shows that 73% of IT executives believe cloud providers are hiding performance problems. Read More Finally, good news in the war on patent trolls I admit it. I was one of those people who thought the software patent mess was unfixable. In March, I even wrote a blog post detailing 7 reasons we'll never solve the patent wars. Well, maybe-hopefully-I was a bit too pessimistic. One of the reasons I cited was: Read More The changing fortunes of Net neutrality Network neutrality is a term coined more than a decade ago by Columbia Law professor Tim Wu, and describes an equal-treatment approach to Internet traffic handling. In 2010, I wrote in Network World about the Net neutrality conversation then in progress. Now, during the first few months of 2014, a few interesting things have developed and Net neutrality may be a useful lens through which to consider them. Read More
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