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Malcovery provides explicit intelligence so you can block today's top threats as they emerge
Cyber attacks are so prolific today that you need every bit of intelligence available to make your security analysts and your security devices more effective. Malcovery Security offers a service that provides details about the top email-borne threats of the day as they are emerging so you can take proactive steps to block them. Read More


WEBCAST: Brocade Communications

Top 3 Network Challenges Limiting IT Agility
Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT Are technical challenges preventing you from building cloud infrastructures? This Webinar will explain the top three challenges facing network architects today, along with the key steps for improving IT agility. View Now>>

PODCAST: PC Connection | Cisco | Intel®

Building Tomorrow's Infrastructure
Listen to this podcast to discover how Crider Foods worked with PC Connection to update their IT infrastructure, while maintaining compliance and control. PC Connection's experts helped Crider deploy Cisco UCS with Intel® Xeon® processors as part of their total data center overhaul. Learn More

Unplugging the data center
Nathan McBride joined AMAG Pharmaceuticals in 2008 with an ambitious goal: to rebuild IT using as little internal infrastructure as possible. He succeeded. Read More

The Internet of Things likely to drive an upheaval for security
The Internet of Things is likely to bring 'a major inflection point in security' sooner than you think. Read More

HP creates a new way to sell data centers
Hewlett-Packard is selling its data center services in a new way, via a program it calls "facilities as a service," or FaaS. Read More


WHITE PAPER: IBM

The Big Data Zoo—Taming the Beasts
According to Dr. Devlin's white paper "The Big Data Zoo—Taming the Beasts", data is still data, whether big or small. It needs to be managed effectively if organizations want to be gain value from it. Although big data may present special challenges for IT organizations, the principles of data management haven't changed. Learn More

White House Calls for Big Data and Cloud Privacy Overhaul
Leading tech groups welcome call for data breach law and outdated cloud privacy statute, but warn against overreaching consumer privacy legislation. Read More

In a world of complexity, focus on the basics
Tony Sager has not only witnessed the revolutionary change in cybersecurity over the past several decades a he has lived it, through several decades with the National Security Agency (NSA). Read More

Enterprises Are Not Monitoring Access to Sensitive Data
If you want to make a cybersecurity professional uncomfortable, simply utter these two word: 'Data exfiltration.' Why will this term garner an emotional response? Because data exfiltration is a worst-case outcome of a cyber-attack - think Target, the NY Times, Google Aurora, Titan Rain, etc. Simply stated, 'data exfiltration' is a quasi-military term used to describe the theft of sensitive... Read More


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Intuit Turns to Self-Service IT
Intuit empowered its users to resolve their own IT issues with a consumer-like experience to free IT to focus on more strategic initiatives. See how Intuit got here Learn more

IT Salaries for the 20 Hottest Tech Skills
Unemployment rates in the IT industry remain low. That's good news for you because it means to compete for top tech talent companies are offering higher salaries. Read More

Afraid of the cloud? How to handle your fears
A study released this week shows that 73% of IT executives believe cloud providers are hiding performance problems. Read More

Finally, good news in the war on patent trolls
I admit it. I was one of those people who thought the software patent mess was unfixable. In March, I even wrote a blog post detailing 7 reasons we'll never solve the patent wars. Well, maybe-hopefully-I was a bit too pessimistic. One of the reasons I cited was: Read More

The changing fortunes of Net neutrality
Network neutrality is a term coined more than a decade ago by Columbia Law professor Tim Wu, and describes an equal-treatment approach to Internet traffic handling. In 2010, I wrote in Network World about the Net neutrality conversation then in progress. Now, during the first few months of 2014, a few interesting things have developed and Net neutrality may be a useful lens through which to consider them. Read More


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