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	Should EMC sell off 80% stake in VMware? Talk has intensified in the past week that changes could be afoot in the strategic relationship between EMC and VMware. EMC currently owns an 80% share of VMware, but a new activist investor is asking for that to change. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems Flash Forward with Cisco UCS Invicta Series In a world where time is money, you need to accelerate the speed at which data moves through your data center. Cisco UCS Invicta delivers powerful, easy-to-manage application acceleration for data-intensive workloads. So you can make decisions faster and outpace the competition. Learn More In this Issue INSIDER Is your network blind to video traffic? (Free Reg) Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop How to make intelligent flash storage investment decisions Non-IBM Power8 servers, chips to appear early next year HP invests in Hortonworks' Hadoop ARM develops second wave of 64-bit processors House passes cellphone unlocking bill that now only needs Obama's signature RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Data+ Conference Are you monetizing your social data? Tweets, updates, likes and more; social media is rich with customer interactions and ripe with business intelligence that's yours for the picking. The challenge is in knowing how to analyze and optimize new data formats, including sensors to social, mobile and more. Learn how to manage and monetize your social data at the Data+ Conference, September 7-9, 2014 in Phoenix, Arizona. Sign up to attend free at: http://www.dataplusconference.com/NL INSIDER Is your network blind to video traffic? (Free Reg) Here's a look at 5 products that manage video in the enterprise. Read More Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop Whatever your poison -- Windows 7 or 8, updated or not -- there's a desktop tool just begging to become part of your repertoire Read More WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks Security in the Next-Generation Data Center This white paper examines these trends, and it reveals the key capabilities that today's security teams require to effectively ensure that vital corporate assets remain secure, while at the same time optimizing access, cost, and administrative efficiency. View Now How to make intelligent flash storage investment decisions Two methods to analyze how current and future storage requirements will benefit from flash storage Read More Non-IBM Power8 servers, chips to appear early next year Servers, chips and components are under development as part of third-party licensing deals Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Tolly Test Report - How NetScaler outperforms F5 Measurable performance is a key factor when selecting an Application Delivery Controller(ADC) solution for modern data centers. In this report, Tolly evaluates the performance of several Citrix NetScaler ADC models vs. that of comparable products. Learn how NetScaler fared and provided up to 480% the performance of F5. Learn more HP invests in Hortonworks' Hadoop With the Hortonworks partnership, HP has a full data analysis software stack to present to enterprise customers Read More ARM develops second wave of 64-bit processors ARM's Maya and Artemis chips are already being licensed to mobile device makers Read More House passes cellphone unlocking bill that now only needs Obama's signature The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed a bill that will once again give consumers the right to unlock their cellphones, meaning the legislation is only a presidential signature away from becoming law.Sina Khanifar, whose petitioning of the White House got the ball rolling on this almost two years, says via an email: The Senate’s cellphone unlocking bill, S517, just passed unanimously in the House of Representatives.Now it just requires the President’s signature to become law. It took 19 months of activism and advocacy, but we’re finally very close to consumers regaining the right to unlock the phones they’ve legally bought. I’m looking forward to seeing this bill finally become law - it’s been a long road against powerful, entrenched interests - but it’s great to see citizen advocacy work.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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