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	Complex event processing comes to cloud management Nastel aims to predict and prevent performance problems with cloud-based applications. Read More WEBCAST: MegaPath Hosted VoIP: What about Service Quality? Learn the basics on how hosted voice services work. Join Joel Thomas and get insight into small business advantages for adopting hosted voice, types of businesses that benefit most from hosted VoIP, and quality indicators for evaluating service providers. Learn More Now. In this Issue BSA fines another firm caught using illegal software Rackspace adds management to cloud offering CIO gets six years for embezzlement scheme IT producers must manage e-waste, says Computer Aid Developers' garbage collection dilemma Microsoft expected to unveil new batch of tablets Gawker Media hacked, warns users to change passwords Goldman Sachs programmer guilty of algorithmic code theft Will small identity management firms thrive in 2011? WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Maintaining Continuity of Operations Download this HP white paper to learn how to reduce the financial impact and maintain acceptable levels of productivity during an unplanned disaster. Read Now BSA fines another firm caught using illegal software The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has announced another scalp in its ongoing war against SMEs it discovers have been using unlicensed software. Read More Rackspace adds management to cloud offering Rackspace has added managed services to its cloud offering, joining some of its smaller competitors. Read More CIO gets six years for embezzlement scheme The former chief information officer at a large U.S. automobile processing company has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for embezzling more than $500,000 from the company by faking expense reports and reselling company equipment. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Multi-Site and Campus Area Wireless LANs Discover industry best practices that drive enterprise-class WLAN performance. Review this enlightening Aberdeen study that gives actionable recommendations on how to improve end-to-end network performance and cut multi-location WLAN budgets. Read now! IT producers must manage e-waste, says Computer Aid A report from Computer Aid International calls for IT manufacturers to take full responsibility for the environmental cost of their products. Read More Developers' garbage collection dilemma New tools try to improve memory management without slowing down the system, as traditional methods can. Read More Microsoft expected to unveil new batch of tablets Ten years after it launched its first tablet PC, Microsoft is still struggling to come up with a hit product in the category. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Apple managed to sell more than 7 million iPads in just a few months. But Microsoft is planning a comeback next month, when it will introduce a bunch of new slate computers, according to a New York Times report. Read More WEBCAST: Symantec The Smart Route to Windows 7 Join IDC analyst Al Gillen as he presents findings from "Windows 7 Done Right: Efficiency from Migration to Implementation" to demonstrate how planning and using the right tools can dramatically improve the Windows 7 environment, reduce security and backup concerns and automate the migration process. View now. Gawker Media hacked, warns users to change passwords E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords -- including on other sites, if they use the same passwords elsewhere. Read More Goldman Sachs programmer guilty of algorithmic code theft Sergey Aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs programmer, has been found guilty of stealing the bank's algorithmic trading code. Read More Will small identity management firms thrive in 2011? We're almost to the end of 2010 – how time does fly, especially as we get older. So over the next few weeks we'll gaze into the crystal ball to see if we can glean what's coming in the new year. I'll hold off on my own prognostications, but a slew of industry insiders and knowledgeable readers have stepped up to provide grist for the identity mill. Read More
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