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	Rackspace rebooting its cloud servers too Rackspace is in the process of rebooting a substantial portion of its cloud servers before Oct. 1, most likely to patch a security vulnerability in the Xen open source hypervisor. Rackspace announced the move on Friday, a day after Amazon Web Services confirmed that it would be rebooting about 10% of its global Elastic Compute Cloud servers. Although neither company has released many details as to the reason for the reboots, Amazon too is believed to be patching a Xen security vulnerability.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software A New Opportunity for Capacity Planners Mainframe software costs are the cost driver in many company's IT budgets and as such an increasing concern. We will describe the difficulty of managing an increasingly complex environment with limited data and small staffs and offer a methodology to safely and sanely identify achievable cost reductions. Learn More In this Issue Chambers again dashes EMC speculation Apple will consume 25% of all DRAM in the world next year 10 ways Big Data Is changing the business of sports Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd: Our IP will help us win in the cloud RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: PC Connection Need to justify a storage refresh? Get SMART, get started. Storage modernization unlocks the full potential of your data center. It increases storage capacity, boosts performance, and reduces costs per gigabyte. Click to continue Chambers again dashes EMC speculation As he has done several times before, Cisco CEO John Chambers dismissed speculation that his company may acquire storage giant EMC. Reports surfaced this week that EMC was shopping itself around as a candidate for a “merger of equals,” and had talked to HP and Dell about possible linkups.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Countering Threats By Modeling "Normal" Website Behavior Check out this informative technology dossier to explore the ins and outs of using big data analysis and web-user profiling to protect your company against cyber threats. Read Now Apple will consume 25% of all DRAM in the world next year Apple's consumption of mobile DRAM will grow from 16.5% of the industry's total production volume today to 25% in 2015 as the company outfits more smartphones, tablets and even laptops with DRAM, according to a new report.Since 2011, Apple has been the biggest consumer of NAND flash, according to IDC Research. Its iPod and iPhone are generally considered responsible for increasing the use -- and lowering the overall price -- of NAND, making it a more viable storage medium for other products, such as solid-state drives (SSDs).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Top 5 Truths About Big Data Hype and Security Intelligence Big Data Security Analytics (BDSA) is the subject of exuberant predictions. However, a Gartner analyst points out that no available BDSA solutions come close to these forecasts. Nevertheless, the principles of Big Data are the key to advanced security intelligence. This white paper discusses the key tenets of Big Data. Learn more >> 10 ways Big Data Is changing the business of sports Image by ThinkstockWhether we talk about football, car racing or sailing, advances in the capture, storage and analysis of data are affecting just about every aspect of sports. Data allows athletes to train better and more effectively and it allows teams to alter their in-game decision-making based on what they're seeing. It is also changing the way broadcasters produce sports entertainment and the way teams and broadcasters engage with fans. Here are just a few of the ways big data is changing the business of sports.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd: Our IP will help us win in the cloud Though Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd’s title may have changed recently, his job running the company’s sales and support operations really hasn’t. But he does have a whole lot more to sell and support these days, and it’s all in the cloud.Oracle is using the occasion of its annual OpenWorld conference to rev up the hype around its cloud strategy, which spans from SaaS (software as a service) to PaaS (platform as a service) and IaaS (infrastructure as a service). Hurd spoke to IDG News Service briefly before the event. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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