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Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics

Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com | Electricity zaps gamers' muscles for force feedback

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Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics
Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is expected to continue to pose numerous challenges over the coming year, an engineer said. Read More


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TruView Ranked Best Hybrid ANPM Solution and Value Leader
TruView ranked the best Hybrid ANPM Solution and Value Leader for large enterprise and service provider deployments, according to the new 2013 Application-aware Network Performance Management (ANPM) Radar Report from Enterprise Management Associates. Click here to read the full analyst report. Click to continue

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VIDEO: Layer 2 Discovery & Asset Reporting
WhatsUp Gold includes Layer 2 discovery as part of the core product bringing you automatically generated Layer 2 topology maps, IT asset reporting, current & historical network documentation, and easy-to-use troubleshooting tools. All of this available within the same interface as all your network management data. View now.

Microsoft links Skype voice, video calling to Outlook.com
Microsoft is rolling Skype in with its free Outlook.com email service, giving customers the ability to fire up VoIP calls directly from their mail inbox. Read More

Electricity zaps gamers' muscles for force feedback
A research project on show at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris uses a small electrical current to give the sensation of force feedback while gaming. Read More

Amazon Web Services launches new certification program
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Program, which will allow solutions architects, systems operations administrators, and developers to get proof of their cloud know-how. Read More


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Essential Reference for Monitoring Your IT Infrastructure
How do you choose a network monitoring solution – SNMP monitoring, flow-based monitoring, or packet analysis – that is right for your IT infrastructure? This ebook your crash course in network monitoring for analysis and learn to use multi-segment analysis to diagnose performance problems with distributed application architectures. Download this ebook

Aging networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks
Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Read More

How to build a bulletproof cloud backup system without spending a dime
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have lost critical data, and those who will. In other words, if you use technology long enough and neglect to back up your data, you're guaranteed to have at least one extremely bad day. Whether it's theft, loss, fire, flood, corruption, or some form of malware, a single incident can destroy the lion's share of your family photos, personal documents, address books, years-in-the-making music library, and more. Read More

Brocade unleashes a data center barrage
Brocade this week extended its data center networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical and virtual resources. Read More


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The Power of Predictive Analytics and Optimization
See how predictive analytics and optimization can enable automated decision-making to better cope with new business conditions, improve the quality and effectiveness of decisions, and learn what works best to continuously improve over time. Learn More

White House program targets IT jobs for service members
The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world. Read More

Universities Closing Big Data Talent Gap But Need Real Data
Any discussion about the challenges of big data will eventually come to the talent gap--the demand for people with big data analytics skills is expected to dramatically outpace supply over the next several years. Read More

Federal CIOs Grapple With BYOD, Mobile Workforce
Security and cultural issues are among many challenges government CIOs face in implementing mobile device management and BYOD strategies. Read More



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