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	Avaya builds massive Wi-Fi net for 2014 Winter Olympics Avaya engineers are putting the final touches on a network capable of handling up to 54Tbps of traffic when the Winter Olympics opens on Feb. 7 in the Russian city of Sochi. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors HP BladeSystem Leadership and Innovation for Data Centers In Gartner's 2013 Blade Server Magic Quadrant, HP has been positioned as a leader for completeness of vision and ability to execute. Read this paper to learn why HP BladeSystem is the leading choice of IT professionals. Learn More In this Issue Juniper buys net optimizer WANDL for $60M 2013: The 12 months of Cisco Bruce Schneier leaving 'security futurologist' position at telco employer BT First Look: Gigabit Wi-Fi adapters San Francisco gives its main street free Wi-Fi, eyes citywide service Anonymous engineers claim BT gives spies backdoors to customer data Obama to meet tech leaders on Healthcare.gov site, surveillance Hadoop gets native R programming for big data analysis Advanced persistent threats now hitting mobile devices WHITE PAPER: CDW Managing Essential tools for greater productivity People are interacting with software from the moment they wake up (hearing an alarm on a smartphone) to the time they relax in the evening (reading or shopping online). And in between, software affects virtually every work function in some way, whether in the executive suite or on the shipping dock. Read Now Juniper buys net optimizer WANDL for $60M Juniper Networks is acquiring WANDL, a maker of network planning, management, design and optimization software for service providers, for $60 million. Read More 2013: The 12 months of Cisco This past year saw several major events and product introductions unfold at Cisco, beginning with an effort to connect cars to the Internet and ending with a solid pipeline in place for its new data center switches and fabric technology. The following is a review of the highlights of the year that was at Cisco, 2013. Read More Bruce Schneier leaving 'security futurologist' position at telco employer BT What does the future hold for security and privacy expert Bruce Schneier after parting ways with the UK telecommunications company BT Group? It's where Schneier was employed for eight years as a security futurologist. Schneier said of his future plans: "Answer cloudy, ask again later." Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Bloor Research: The Economics of Cloud-Managed Integration Save time and money with cloud-managed integration Are you concerned about the cost and length of time it takes to integrate applications and data? You shouldn't be – cloud-based integration platforms dramatically speed results, increase productivity and lower costs. Learn more in this new white paper by Bloor Research. View now First Look: Gigabit Wi-Fi adapters At some point, desktops and laptops will come with the new Gigabit Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac built in. But if you can't wait and want to speed up the wireless links on your existing devices, you can buy an 802.11ac adapter today. Read More San Francisco gives its main street free Wi-Fi, eyes citywide service The city and county of San Francisco teamed up with Earthlink and Google nearly a decade ago to build what was planned as a citywide Wi-Fi network, only to see Earthlink retreat from its municipal Wi-Fi business in 2007. The citywide system was never built. Read More Anonymous engineers claim BT gives spies backdoors to customer data Carrier BT provides the British intelligence agency GCHQ and its American counterpart the NSA with direct access to customer data through the Internet modems it supplies, claims a 50-page document posted anonymously on the Cryptome site today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Web Site Performance for the Speed of Business IT organizations must look beyond raw network speed to increase website performance and deliver the superior online user experiences that drive business. Web performance is a multi-layered problem, encompassing reliability, scalability and mobile reach as well as speed. Learn More Obama to meet tech leaders on Healthcare.gov site, surveillance U.S. President Barack Obama, hoping to repair some of the damage wrought by the troubled Healthcare.gov site, will meet with executives from technology companies including Yahoo and Twitter on Tuesday. Read More Hadoop gets native R programming for big data analysis Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data processing platform. Read More Advanced persistent threats now hitting mobile devices Smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices have become the target of malware and are even getting hit by highly targeted attacks known as "advanced persistent threats" that intended to steal sensitive data, according to a survey of 676 IT and security professionals. Read More
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