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	It's twilight for small in-house data centers Virtualization, cloud services and SaaS is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Big Data Requires a Remodeling of the Data Warehouse Take a few moments to learn about a data warehouse appliance that is a massively parallel server optimized to run Microsoft's SQL Server that delivers enterprise scalability, ease of maintenance, and a single version of the truth, all for a low cost. Read Now! In this Issue Cisco lays off 500 of workforce HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now 10 Geeky and Foolish Ways to Celebrate April Fools' Day U.S. to scrutinize IT system purchases with ties to China Equinix, NetApp, Amazon team to enable hybrid clouds Wisconsin man charged with participating in Anonymous DDoS Sabotage suspected in Egypt submarine cable cut Airport's CIO Turns to Mobile App Helps Harried Travelers Crowd-funding is working for Open Source projects Data leakage risk rises with cloud storage services Silver Peak announces virtual appliance for offsite replication WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets The State of 802.11 Briefing 802.11ac hardware is now a reality. Vendors are talking about 802.11ad. Gigabit and Multi-Gigibit Wi-Fi - as well as applications such as VoIP over Wi-fi (VoFi) that need them - are closer than ever. Understand the differences between 802.11n/ac/ad and get ready today for changes to your wireless infrastructure. Download this ebook Cisco lays off 500 of workforce Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 500 people as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. Read More HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop. Read More 10 Geeky and Foolish Ways to Celebrate April Fools' Day The Web is the epicenter of foolishness these days, but there are also ways to celebrate April 1 offline. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now U.S. to scrutinize IT system purchases with ties to China Certain U.S. federal agencies could be hindered from buying information technology systems made by companies with links to the Chinese government under the new funding law signed by President Barack Obama earlier this week. Read More Equinix, NetApp, Amazon team to enable hybrid clouds A new partnership will allow customers to host dedicated NetApp storage infrastructure in Equinix data centers to provide fast connections up into Amazon Web Service's cloud. Read More Wisconsin man charged with participating in Anonymous DDoS A man in Wisconsin has been charged with participation in a distributed denial-of-service attack in February, 2011 against Koch Industries by hacker group Anonymous. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Good APM Practices Get Results According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More. Sabotage suspected in Egypt submarine cable cut Egypt said it has arrested three men suspected of slicing a crucial undersea Internet cable on Wednesday, causing widespread problems from Kenya to Pakistan. Read More Airport's CIO Turns to Mobile App Helps Harried Travelers Dallas-Fort Worth airport's smartphone app makes it easier for customers to find their gate, food and a parking place. Read More Crowd-funding is working for Open Source projects Funding Open Source software isn't easy – heck, in some cases, it can be darn near impossible – but it is certainly a worthwhile goal. And, right now, we're seeing a number of people and organizations tackling this challenge. Read More Data leakage risk rises with cloud storage services The biggest danger: Employees using apps such as Dropbox, Box and SugarSync for tucking away business documents to take home for work. Read More Silver Peak announces virtual appliance for offsite replication Silver Peak Systems announced a new virtual application designed to dramatically speed up data duplication for disaster recovery without the purchase of additional hardware. Read More
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