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	Secure browsers offer alternatives to Chrome, IE and Firefox The Web browser has been a major infection vector for years, allowing malware to be transported to millions of computers through phishing, man-in-the-middle, SQL injection and countless other attacks. But what if there were a way to stop this madness and secure the browsing channel itself? Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Your Guide to Troubleshooting VoIP Real-time voice communications are sensitive to delay and variation in packet arrival times. This paper guides you through the essentials of VoIP troubleshooting, including common problems as well as the metrics you should employ to fix and prevent them. Learn More In this Issue Server makers rushing out Heartbleed patches Got gigabit Wi-Fi? Pshaw, Quantenna says it will deliver 10-gigabit Wi-Fi in 2015 Field Museum goes Gigabit Best browsers for safe surfing With a Wi-Fi cloud service, Ruckus aims to help hotspot owners make money Microsoft concedes Chromebooks are work-worthy Connected stuff is catching on -- just don't call it IoT Big data drives 47% growth for top 50 public cloud companies M2M, IoT – and Broadband The mainframe isn't dead, and neither is the PC WHITE PAPER: SAS See the Possibilities Utilizing Data Visualization Regardless of size, today's businesses are bombarded with structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources. Take advantage of all this data with in-memory analytics and data visualization techniques, to get day-to-day insights for making better decisions. Learn more Server makers rushing out Heartbleed patches Enterprise IT vendors are rushing to protect users from the Heartbleed bug, which has been found in some servers and networking gear and could allow attackers to steal critical data -- including passwords and encryption keys -- from the memories of exposed systems. Read More Got gigabit Wi-Fi? Pshaw, Quantenna says it will deliver 10-gigabit Wi-Fi in 2015 Today's fastest 802.11ac routers deliver throughput speeds on par with hardwired gigabit-ethernet connections. That might seem slow by next year, when Quantenna Communications launches its new Wi-Fi chipset. Read More Field Museum goes Gigabit I'm used to seeing research institutions cranking up insanely fast Internet connections, such as the University of Florida has done with a 100Gbps link to Internet2. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® IDC Analyst Connection - Converged Systems: Key Requirements The following questions were posed by HP to Jed Scaramella, research director for IDC's Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends practice, on behalf of HP's customers. Learn More>> Best browsers for safe surfing Spikes AirGap, Invincea FreeSpace shine in test of eight specialized browsers. Read More With a Wi-Fi cloud service, Ruckus aims to help hotspot owners make money The latest entrant into cloud-based Wi-Fi plans to apply the technique to public Wi-Fi hotspots, helping enterprises and service providers to better manage and monetize their networks. Read More Microsoft concedes Chromebooks are work-worthy Microsoft on Monday conceded that Google's Chrome OS and the Chromebooks the operating system powers are capable of doing real work, a reversal of its 'Scroogled' campaign that once blasted the laptops as worthless. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Practices for Success This white paper discusses best practices that can dramatically increase your success rate of a SAM deployment. Make sure and follow these steps and verify that your SAM toolkit has the necessary functionality to keep your organization steps ahead of the competition -it's a long term investment. Read Now Connected stuff is catching on -- just don't call it IoT Many organizations today are looking for things that talk to the Internet. Sensors, cameras, medical equipment and even snowplows are on that wish list. Read More Big data drives 47% growth for top 50 public cloud companies Big data analytics are driving rapid growth for public cloud computing vendors with revenues for the top 50 public cloud providers shooting up 47% in the fourth quarter last year to $6.2 billion, according to Technology Business Review Inc. Read More M2M, IoT – and Broadband I recent spoke with a senior executive from FreeWave, a Boulder-based company that has been designing and building wireless products, using mostly proprietary radio designs, for two decades. The firm specializes in such industrial applications as oil and gas, utilities, defense, SCADA, mining, and a variety of others as well, with a very broad product line of mostly narrowband solutions. Read More The mainframe isn't dead, and neither is the PC The mainframe was supposed to go extinct decades ago, but it's abundant in many habitats. Same goes for the PC, which seems to have adapted for survival better than once thought. Both the mainframe and the PC offer evolutionary advantages that newer, more sophisticated species still struggle to match. Read More
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