Not your father's computer science building

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	Not your father's computer science building College campuses across the U.S. are building news computer science facilities that encourage hands-on education and interdisciplinary research. One example is Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, the new home of Cornell University's Computing and Information Science (CIS) department. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive BYOD and Beyond: How To Turn BYOD into Productivity One of the most overlooked aspects of the BYOD phenomenon isn't just connecting the users to the network, but how to manage them once they're there. Getting mobile and BYO devices onto the network is now table stakes. View Now In this Issue INSIDER Maker spaces boost student tech innovation Computer science surge sparks campus building boom Cisco, Microsoft part of optics consortium directing data center standards Bare-metal switches poised to take off in data centers Wireless router from Huawei hints at new ways to speed up LTE Five moves Microsoft must make to advance in mobile To avoid NSA, Cisco gear gets delivered to strange addresses EMC eying Arista, Brocade? Try these 5 undiscovered Google Drive tricks 2015 reality check: IT hiring, spending are up -- for now WHITE PAPER: IBM Data Warehouse Modernization: The Queryable Data Store Read the paper to understand how data can be stored and optimized with Hadoop, to assess whether or not you need a queryable data store, and to find out how you can try IBM InfoSphere BigInsights software's key enterprise features for free. Read More INSIDER Maker spaces boost student tech innovation Where do college students go to tinker, build and test prototypes, and find commercial support for their ideas? Maker spaces. (Insider Story) Read More Computer science surge sparks campus building boom Colleges and universities across the country have been building new facilities to keep up with expanding STEM – science, technology, engineering and math -- programs. As colleges add capacity, they're also rethinking how STEM facilities should be designed. Read More Cisco, Microsoft part of optics consortium directing data center standards A group of big name vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, Intel, Broadcom, Juniper and Arista Networks this week created a consortium to address switch faceplate bandwidth density and airflow constraints caused by increasing networking speeds. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Which SQL Engine Leads the Herd? In a comparison of three leading SQL-on-Hadoop implementations, IBM Big SQL was found to be more compatible, faster and more scalable than competing SQL-on-Hadoop offerings. Download this short paper for an overview of the independent benchmark, the result and the importance of deploying Hadoop into your data warehouse environment. Learn More Bare-metal switches poised to take off in data centers Bare-metal switches that can be programmed like Linux servers aren't just for big Web companies anymore. They may show up in a lot more average enterprises in the next few years. Read More Wireless router from Huawei hints at new ways to speed up LTE In the hunt for more spectrum to offer higher wireless broadband speeds, mobile operators and equipment vendors are showing a growing interest in a new candidate. Huawei Technologies has laid the groundwork for speeds up to 220Mbps using LTE-Advanced at 3.5GHz. Read More Five moves Microsoft must make to advance in mobile At one time, people considered Microsoft a true contender in the mobile space. Just four years ago, some analysts predicted that Windows Phone would leapfrog BlackBerry and iOS to claim the number two spot behind Android. Some researchers expected Microsoft's market share to hit 20 percent, while others even predicted the company would edge past Android. But we all know how that turned out. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Delivering Trusted Information for the Modern Data Warehouse An agile warehouse environment helps organizations capitalize on analytics, optimize performance and uncover new insights. Learn about the capabilities and technologies required to provide trusted information for a next-generation data warehouse. Learn More To avoid NSA, Cisco gear gets delivered to strange addresses One of the most successful U.S. National Security Agency spying programs involved intercepting IT equipment en route to customers and modifying it. Read More EMC eying Arista, Brocade? Stoke the rumor fires once again. Bernstein Research has issued a note this week that states storage giant EMC is prepared to buy, and that Arista Networks and Brocade might make good fits. Read More Try these 5 undiscovered Google Drive tricks Google Drive and its attendant apps offer a wealth of tools to help you be more productive. Try these five for the biggest boost. Read More 2015 reality check: IT hiring, spending are up -- for now IT managers started into 2015 feeling pretty optimistic, according to data from several industry reports, with solid economic growth paving the way for new IT initiatives and with them, a steady stream of IT hiring. Read More
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