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	Agency destroys $170K worth of IT gear over non-existent malware threat The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) destroyed about $170,000 worth of IT equipment including computers, printers, keyboards and computer mice last year on the mistaken belief that the systems were irreparably compromised by malware. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Boost Profitability with Better Planning & Mobile Reporting This session will discuss how Ashurst, a top-tier legal service provider for private and public sector clients worldwide, was able to effectively manage organizational change and improve their profitability using IBM Business Analytics. Learn More. In this Issue First Look: Google Chrome 28 browser 10 Hot Security Startups to Watch Matchbox computers: Small is beautiful (and powerful) Alert! Study finds Internet users heed browser warnings EMC battles rogue backups BYOD breeds distrust between workers and IT Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure public-cloud weary enterprises Microsoft's new app security rules dubbed a paper tiger Can BYOD Breathe New Life Into the Virtual Desktop? FCC wasting phone subsidy money, study says WHITE PAPER: FICO (Fair Isaac) Cloud Analytics for the Masses Learn the best practices in building applications that can leverage volume, variety and velocity of Big Data for organizations of any size. Learn more. First Look: Google Chrome 28 browser A new rich notification feature, a different kind of WebKit and a raft of security fixes made it into the latest stable version of Google's Chrome browser. Read More 10 Hot Security Startups to Watch Tablets and smartphones, which employees are bringing into work in "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) style, are leading IT managers to ask security questions, starting with whether they should sort out corporate mobile apps and data from personal ones. It's all encouraged a spate of security start-ups to come up with their own answers, and highlighted here are a few that have recently hung out a shingle for mobile security. But it's not just mobile spurring the creation of young security firms out to change the world. Read More Matchbox computers: Small is beautiful (and powerful) Matchbox computers -- small but powerful open-source devices -- are a good way to build your own system and/or carry it with you. We look at the phenomenon and offer a slideshow of examples. Read More WEBCAST: Fluke Networks Redefining Performance Management Video Join Enterprise Management Associates Managing Research Director, Jim Frey, and Fluke Networks Director of Product Strategy, Doug Roberts, for an exclusive free webinar that examines how TruView redefines enterprise performance monitoring and troubleshooting. Learn More Alert! Study finds Internet users heed browser warnings Security warnings displayed by Web browsers are far more effective at deterring risky Internet behavior than was previously believed, according to a new study. Read More EMC battles rogue backups With a new set of hardware and software releases, EMC is promising to simplify its customers' storage infrastructure by combining different types of operation into a single EMC system. Read More BYOD breeds distrust between workers and IT Nearly a third of U.S. workers distrust company software on their mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies Guide to 50% Faster VMs - No Hardware Required For administrators seeking to increase performance in their virtual environment without investing in more hardware, this white paper outlines how I/O optimization technologies deliver performance at a fraction of the cost of hardware for applications with the heaviest workloads. Read more. Read Now! Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure public-cloud weary enterprises Amazon Web Services Wednesday dropped the price of its dedicated instances, which are virtual machines allocated to individual customers and that do not run on shared hardware. Read More Microsoft's new app security rules dubbed a paper tiger One analyst said he believes giving developers six months to fix an app, so as to not scare away developers, is excessive. Read More Can BYOD Breathe New Life Into the Virtual Desktop? Seattle Children's Hospital isn't your typical BYOD story. Its mobile device strategy isn't bound by onerous user policies and monitoring software. Rather, the hospital's CIO reports an interesting twist: BYOD is resuscitating ill-fated virtual desktop infrastructure technology. Read More FCC wasting phone subsidy money, study says The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on telephone subsidies, with some rich areas of the country receiving up to US$23,000 per line per year from the agency's Universal Service Fund, according to a new study. Read More
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