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	12 fun, free summer classes for techies Take a break from your day job and immerse yourself in baseball analytics. Or, escape to alien worlds, soak up superhero culture, and study the science of happiness. MOOCs are an easy way to feed your brain without draining your wallet. This summer, check out some fun, free, tech-friendly options from EdX, Coursera and newcomer Kadenze. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Connection The Document Disconnect in the U.S. U.S. executives and managers in sales, HR, procurement, legal and other departments estimate that fixing the "document disconnect" could lead to 34% increase in revenue, 24% reduction in costs and a 14% reduction in risk. The new Acrobat DC can assist in helping mend the disconnect. Learn More In this Issue Google brings Broad Institute's genome analysis kit to the cloud Top 10 botnet targets in the U.S. and worldwide Arista brings cloud-scale automation to enterprises and service providers CareerBuilder sets its sights on enterprises with new recruitment platform IBM, Box partner on cloud analytics technologies Snowflake Computing opens data warehouse to the masses Docker offers enterprise support, software for containers Can Oracle catch up in the cloud? Juniper, Ruckus join hands with an eye on mobile growth Rackspace creates career path for tech execs who don't want to manage people : LogMeIn Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps: The Ultimate Guide Download this handy PDF from InfoWorld to learn all the ins and outs of Microsoft Office and Google Apps and decide which option is best for you. Learn More Google brings Broad Institute's genome analysis kit to the cloud Google has partnered with Broad Institute to offer the biomedical research organization's DNA analysis software as a service on the tech company's Cloud Platform. Read More Top 10 botnet targets in the U.S. and worldwide In its new botnet research report, 'Safeguarding the Internet,' Level 3 uses its own threat intelligence, combined with other data feeds, to define trends in botnet behavior, DDoS attacks and malware. Read More Arista brings cloud-scale automation to enterprises and service providers SDN certainly means different things to different people. To the giant web companies, SDN means having the ability to create custom network software to enable functions that are unique to that organization. Read More WHITE PAPER: ATTO Technology, Inc Cut Costs & Boost Performance with Software Defined Storage A transition is underway from standard data center infrastructures to cloud-enabled, software-defined ones that permit resources to be scaled in response to evolving business needs. Software Defined Storage (SDS) brings the benefits of virtualization to storage infrastructure by enabling a modular approach that abstracts software from hardware. Learn More CareerBuilder sets its sights on enterprises with new recruitment platform CareerBuilder has long been known primarily for its namesake jobs-listing site, but on Wednesday the company launched a new recruitment platform that's aimed squarely at enterprise HR departments. Read More IBM, Box partner on cloud analytics technologies IBM and online storage firm Box have formed a wide-ranging cloud technologies partnership that will allow Box users to apply Watson Analytics know-how to their content while IBM customers can use Box's content collaboration platform. Read More Snowflake Computing opens data warehouse to the masses Snowflake Computing announced that its cloud-based data warehouse service is available to all users. Called the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse, the service allows companies to pool all their data and workloads in a single warehouse that can be accessed by all their users. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM 7 Reasons You Need Predictive Analytics Today Learn why advanced analytics tools are essential to sustain a competitive advantage. Learn More Docker offers enterprise support, software for containers Organizations wishing to explore the use of Docker containers can now tap into commercial support, as well as some new software, to help them manage the new technology. Read More Can Oracle catch up in the cloud? Oracle finally arrived in full form at the cloud party on Monday afternoon, and it's clearly hoping to make up for lost time. Read More Juniper, Ruckus join hands with an eye on mobile growth The alliance between Juniper Networks and Ruckus Wireless announced on Tuesday underscores the importance of Wi-Fi in enterprises, where employees increasingly work and access cloud applications on mobile devices. Read More Rackspace creates career path for tech execs who don't want to manage people Egle Sigler started at Rackspace as a junior programmer and later moved to a DevOps architect position before advancing to her current role: principal architect of private cloud solutions at Rackspace.Along the way, Sigler was asked about leading a team of developers, but it didn't seem like the right path. 'I wasn't really interested in taking the management route, at least not immediately,' Sigler says. Read More
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