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	Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus now guarded by Daleks If you ever visit the Microsoft campus in the Silicon Valley and hear a mechanical voice shout "Ex-ter-min-ate!", don't be too spooked. It just means some geek humor has gone a little crazy. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell Software   Future-proof your mobility strategy with Dell EMM Looking for ongoing ways to securely connect your mobile team to the resources they need today and in the future? Read this new white paper to learn how Dell Enterprise Mobility Management can help your IT team adapt as devices, operating systems and work habits constantly evolve. Learn more In this Issue Office 365's spam filter gets smarter at sorting bulk mailings Microsoft cold-shoulders Server 2003 and XP; users hit with Microsoft Update error 0x80248015 14 go-to tools for Mac sysadmins Black Friday: Microsoft slashing Surface, laptop, Xbox prices WebRTC close to tipping point as Cisco, Microsoft announce products 11 Black Friday deals for HP Pavilion All-in-One PCs with Windows 8.1 Intel to tame passwords with biometric authentication Would Amazon Web Services ever build an on-premise private cloud? Contain yourself: The layman's guide to Docker WHITE PAPER: Aberdeen Group   3 Insider Threats Executives Need to Watch For Aberdeen Group's Derek E. Brink discusses in this report the three types of insider threats that executives must watch out for, as well as five ways in which these threats are likely to occur, and how to react to them when they appear. Avoid costly security breaches with this valuable information. Learn More Office 365's spam filter gets smarter at sorting bulk mailings In time for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft has refined how Office 365 handles bulk promotional emails from vendors like Amazon, eBay and Macy's. Those messages, which contain special offers, newsletters and other sales incentives, fall into a gray area between legitimate email and obvious spam. Read More   Microsoft cold-shoulders Server 2003 and XP; users hit with Microsoft Update error 0x80248015 The causes of the problem remain cloudy, but the symptoms are quite clear. Starting on Nov. 18, some Server 2003, Windows Home Server 2003, and Windows XP SP3 machines suddenly refused to connect to Microsoft Update. As best I can tell, Microsoft has not responded to the problem, not documented a workaround, and is basically doing nothing visible to fix it. Read More   14 go-to tools for Mac sysadmins What's in a Mac admin's toolbox? Former Apple employee Gerard Allen shared some of his favorite tools during JAMF Software's user conference. Read More   : McAfee Needle in a Datastack Report The volume of security-related data today can make identifying a threat like looking for a needle in a haystack. Yet collecting more data also plays a transformational role in information security. Organizations need to learn how to harness and sift through this wealth of information to protect themselves from the threats they face every day. Learn more >> Black Friday: Microsoft slashing Surface, laptop, Xbox prices Microsoft has revealed a slew of Black Friday deals, including big cuts intended to move its iPad rival, the Surface Pro 3 tablet. Read More   WebRTC close to tipping point as Cisco, Microsoft announce products It was all the way back in the Spring of 2011 that Google released WebRTC, its nascent real-time, browser-based, HTML5-powered, no-plugin-required video chat project to the public. In the three and a half years since, the Internet Engineering Task Force and the W3C have been working together to try to formalize the standard, prepare the stable 1.0 release, and get it ready for prime time. Read More   11 Black Friday deals for HP Pavilion All-in-One PCs with Windows 8.1 If you happen to have someone on your Christmas list that insists upon needing a desktop PC, when in fact they don't need a powerful machine and don't want a laptop, then maybe an HP Pavilion All-in-One (AIO) PC is the answer? It becomes an even more attractive option if they have an ancient machine still running Windows XP – even after you've warned them and cut off all 24/7 family-tech support! Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP Top 5 Truths About Big Data Hype and Security Intelligence Big Data Security Analytics (BDSA) is the subject of exuberant predictions. However, a Gartner analyst points out that no available BDSA solutions come close to these forecasts. Nevertheless, the principles of Big Data are the key to advanced security intelligence. This white paper discusses the key tenets of Big Data. Learn more >> Intel to tame passwords with biometric authentication Forget typing in passwords, Intel wants you to use your body to log into email and online bank accounts. McAfee software that will use biometric technology to authenticate users will be available for download by the end of the year, said Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group at Intel. Read More   Would Amazon Web Services ever build an on-premise private cloud? Like some of its major competitors, would Amazon Web ever offer an on-premises private cloud management software? AWS Vice President of Marketing Ariel Kelman wouldn't rule it out - "never say never" he said - but he added that company executives have discussed doing it, but it just doesn't fit AWS's business model at this time. Read More   Contain yourself: The layman's guide to Docker   Welcome to the age of containerization, where an ecosystem led by startup Docker is leading IT organizations to ineffable peaks of efficiency, helping them scale their workloads ever-higher, and probably baking them a nice cake to boot (it's my birthday, I have cake on the brain, sue me). Read More
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