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	Top IT vendors reveal their IoT strategies The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grab headlines, as well as the attention of IT vendors looking to tap into the growing market for IoT-related products and services. Not surprisingly, vendors are taking varied approaches to IoT, based on their own strengths. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Gartner Magic Quadrant for ADCs Citrix is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers for the seventh consecutive year: the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report focuses on vendor's ability to solve complex application deployment challenges. Don't miss this chance to learn from Gartner's independent research. Learn More In this Issue HP buys Eucalyptus: What it means for the hybrid cloud The Linux desktop-a-week review: ratpoison How the Terminal makes Ubuntu Touch worth using WEBCAST: Citrix Systems Transform Your Datacenter with Cisco ACI & Citrix NetScaler Learn how Citrix NetScaler – the leader in public clouds, integrates with Cisco ACI to enable the enterprise network transition to a new era of accelerated application deployment. Learn more >> HP buys Eucalyptus: What it means for the hybrid cloud HP bought open source private cloud company Eucalyptus for a reported about $100 million in a move that could have dramatic implications for HP's status in the IaaS market.Eucalyptus makes private cloud management software - basically customers can use it to build a private cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP The Bot Threat Download this whitepaper and learn how bots work and how, by adopting the right strategy, you can use a defense-in-depth strategy to effectively prevent direct attacks against your critical systems. Learn More The Linux desktop-a-week review: ratpoison Near the beginning of my adventure through every Linux Desktop Environment on the planet, I spent some time with Awesome, a minimalist (to say the least) environment that, while I had mixed feelings on, ultimately proved true to its name.With that experience fresh in my mind, I had high hopes for the environment selected for me to live full time in for this last week -- ratpoison.Normally, I'd make you wait for the end of the article to discover my ultimate conclusion. But I just can't do that this time. You see... I hated it. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Human Capital Management This white paper addresses 10 major challenges that HR organizations face and describes how enterprise content management tools can increase efficiency, reduce costs and minimize risk. Read Now How the Terminal makes Ubuntu Touch worth using Sometimes it's the little things that make all the difference. Even something that seems completely inconsequential can take a project from meh to awesome with astonishing speed. Take Ubuntu Touch, for example. There is much about that system that I love. It's mostly Open Source (with very few exceptions) and allows me to have a Debian-based Linux distro right in the palm of my hands. Being able to sudo apt-get install on the go is just so incredibly handy. Damn near brings a tear to my eye. Read More
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