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VMware opens up testing of next-gen vSphere to anyone | Tech breakthroughs may mean 'digital everything' by 2025

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Tools catch security holes in open source code
This year has been the best of times and the worst of times for open source code and security .On the one hand, the latest survey by Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners shows that 72 percent of industry professionals prefer open source software because it's more secure than proprietary solutions. On the other hand, Heartbleed exposed a security flaw in the widely-used, open source OpenSSL encryption tool that affected more than half a million websites. Read More

WEBCAST: HP

Meg Whitman presents Unlocking IT with Big Data
Today, the industry is at an inflection point - driven by a triple storm of Big Data, cloud, and mobility; and in this new environment, security is paramount. The New Style of IT is about how businesses and IT leverage this rapid change for enterprise growth. Learn More

In this Issue

WEBCAST: Kemp Technologies

How To: Agile Hybrid Cloud Deployment with Virtual ADC's
The Growth of Hybrid Cloud is effecting companies of all sizes. In this webinar you will learn: How to deploy Hybrid Cloud Applications in Hours Not Weeks, Enable Security & High Availability for Apps Migrated to the Hybrid Cloud. Learn More

VMware opens up testing of next-gen vSphere to anyone
VMware is for the first time inviting anyone to beta test the next version of vSphere, the company's virtualization platform. Read More

Tech breakthroughs may mean 'digital everything' by 2025
Think you're digitally connected today? Well, you haven't seen anything yet. Read More

5 free software tools for greater privacy
If you use the Internet or a mobile phone, which in modern society is hard to avoid, your personal data and communications are constantly being collected and analyzed. From browsing histories, to emails to text messages, revealing information is sought by a variety of actors, including hackers, government spy agencies and the courts. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Infortrend

Optimized Efficiency for SMB Datacenters
Did you know that Infortrend's EonStor DS systems are ideal solutions for storage infrastructure consolidation, high-availability clusters, server virtualization and green datacenters? And now, they're 16Gb Fibre Channel-ready. Learn more >>

INSIDER

How to recover after a cloud computing misstep
DreamWorks Animation knows the magic of the cloud. Since 2003, the famed studio has held its product development, design and manufacturing functions in a hybrid cloud environment, long before the storage option was even called "cloud." Read More

Microsoft Promises Frequent Office 365 Roadmap Updates
Frequent updates to cloud software can cause compatibility problems – which is why Microsoft has outlined plans to help your other applications play nicely with Office 365. Read More

How to spot and avoid installing potentially unwanted programs
The only PUP no one lovesThey're called PUPs—Potentially Unwanted Programs—and they sneak onto your system as accessories to the program you actually intend to install. They're annoying, and they can result in slower performance, space-stealing browser toolbars, annoying pop-ups, and even loss of privacy. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Enabling Unified Service Delivery Management With nGeniusONE
Today's IT organizations manage diverse business services comprising a host of applications running on many server farms within the data center. NetScout provides a highly scalable, unified approach to service delivery management that enables efficient, topdown performance management across complex application, server and network tiers. Learn More

Wzor's return brings Windows 9 rumors
Russian Microsoft leaker WZOR has resurfaced three months after going into hiding with new information on Windows 8.1 Update 2, as well as details on new security measures at Microsoft and Windows 9. Read More

OpenSSL Project publishes roadmap to counter criticism
The OpenSSL Project is planning a number of changes to ensure its security component, used across millions of computers across the Internet, is in tip-top shape. Read More

Microsoft still having trouble convincing users to buy Windows 8
Microsoft continues to have trouble getting customers to adopt its latest operating system, with combined use of Windows 8 and 8.1 declining in June as compared to other operating systems. Read More

INSIDER

Hadoop's success drives efforts to make it more secure
Talk about big data and it won't take long for Hadoop to appear in the conversation. The Apache open source software is used to orchestrate clusters of commodity computers to crunch information from mountains of data. Read More

SLIDESHOWS

10 disturbing attacks at Black Hat USA 2014

Attacking car systems, Google Glass for password theft, using free cloud trials to launch botnets, more.

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