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	Texas, Florida, North Carolina lead IT job growth in first half of 2014, study finds U.S. technology professionals searching for jobs may want to look in states not normally considered IT hot spots. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW The Capacity Boost You Can Expect from WAN Optimization WAN optimization techniques tweak bandwidth for better network performance and more. Read Now In this Issue Fifteen new vulnerabilities reported during router hacking contest Microsoft to support fewer IE versions IBM opening two state-of-the-art disaster recovery/resiliency centers Big Data scientists get 100 recruiter emails a day Former exec says HP 'bungled' the Autonomy acquisition, alleges cover-up Splunk digs deeper with Stream app for network monitoring Google backs $300 million undersea Internet cable to Japan Malware is less concerned about virtual machines Study finds firmware plagued by poor encryption and backdoors Amazon protects its virtual desktops with two-factor authentication WHITE PAPER: BMC Software 10 Steps to Reducing Mainframe MLC Costs Monthly license charges (MLC) are rising by 7% or more each year, and account for 30% of total mainframe costs. Yet managing MLC costs is an inexact science. Learn More Fifteen new vulnerabilities reported during router hacking contest Five popular router models were hacked during the SOHOpelessly Broken competition at DefCon 22. Read More Microsoft to support fewer IE versions Microsoft has started a 17-month campaign to upgrade customers to the newest version of Internet Explorer that their operating systems will support, which should make it simpler for the company to keep the browser secure because it will have fewer versions to deal with. Read More IBM opening two state-of-the-art disaster recovery/resiliency centers IBM is about to cut the ribbon officially opening two new state-of-the-art data centers intended to provide disaster recovery and resiliency services, one in the Raleigh, N.C. area and other in Mumbai, India. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs This paper discusses five levers you can use to lower your mainframe MLC costs by up to 20 percent or more. Explore best practices and real-world examples of dramatic savings through a mainframe MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. Learn More Big Data scientists get 100 recruiter emails a day A lot of people—myself included—have long been talking about how big data changes everything. But big data's biggest disruption may be in the high-tech labor market. Read More Former exec says HP 'bungled' the Autonomy acquisition, alleges cover-up Autonomy's former chief financial officer has claimed that Hewlett-Packard is accusing him and other ex-employees of fraud in order to cover up its own failings in the disastrous 2011 acquisition. Read More Splunk digs deeper with Stream app for network monitoring Splunk's new App for Stream will give IT departments more insight into their infrastructures by collecting network traffic on response times, network performance and database queries. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The New Mobility: Astonishingly Simple and Powerful Mobility has not only changed how we live, it is also dramatically changing the network infrastructures that we rely on. For the better. As organizations cope with a tidal wave of mobile users, mobile applications, and demand for pervasive access, it's becoming clearer that prior-generation approaches to providing mobility are breaking. Learn more Google backs $300 million undersea Internet cable to Japan Google is joining forces with five Asian telecommunications firms to build and operate an underwater cable system from the U.S. to Japan to support rising bandwidth usage and better link its data centers in other parts of the world. Read More Malware is less concerned about virtual machines Many malicious software programs used to make a quick exit on virtual machines, a tactic designed to avoid a security check. But that isn't the case anymore, according Symantec research. Read More Study finds firmware plagued by poor encryption and backdoors Firmware within the 'Internet of Things' could pose opportunities for hackers, researchers find. Read More Amazon protects its virtual desktops with two-factor authentication Amazon Web Services now lets enterprises use two-factor authentication to better protect hosted WorkSpaces virtual desktops. Read More
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