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	Google, Facebook duke it out over user data Internet giants Google and Facebook have been having a war of words this week over user data portability. Read More WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Online Server Backup Checklist View this Webcast today and learn how SMBs can save money, time and IT resources by backing up critical data to the cloud. This online server backup checklist for SMBs outlines how cloud adoption is quick, secure and affordable, scaling with business growth and eliminating daily backup hassles. Learn more! In this Issue FTC appoints cool hacker as first Chief Technologist Red Hat releases RHEL 6 Kill Symbian Now, Please Amazon pulls pedophile how-to manual Apple smashes patch record with gigantic update Open Source and The Cloud: Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly Supercomputing fest will spotlight world's fastest computers, high-performance issues Novell upgrades Zenworks PC management features Riverbed boosts cloud services WEBCAST: Dell Companies spend 30% more on software licenses than needed. Poor visibility into remote assets, an inability to ensure the security of PCs, and failing to deliver satisfactory service to end users on a consistent and cost-effective basis are a few of the challenges that IT executives face as they struggle to manage software across their organizations. Learn more now! FTC appoints cool hacker as first Chief Technologist The FTC appointed Ed Felten as its first Chief Technologist. Felten is a cool hacker with a long history of hacking and taking on "The Man" such as the RIAA and Microsoft. This may signal that the FTC is about to dive deeper into digital privacy issues facing consumers. Read More Red Hat releases RHEL 6 Red Hat releases version 6 of its enterpise Linux distribution, featuring improvements in performance and network management Read More Kill Symbian Now, Please In a surprise move, Nokia announced Monday it's taking back control of the open source Symbian project. Symbian is one of the oldest mobile phone operating systems around and has been a Nokia favourite almost since the company's inception. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Cloud as the Next Generation of Service Delivery Exceptional growth in data is driving a need to transform the delivery of services. Understand the "road map" to transform and learn how IBM adds value at every step from virtualization, consolidation, automation, and ultimately cloud computing. Learn More Amazon pulls pedophile how-to manual The self-published e-book had been on Amazon since Oct. 28 without a ripple or significant sales. That changed dramatically yesterday when word of its availability raced across the Internet, generating boycott threats, and reportedly launching the title to number 80 on Amazon's bestseller list. A statement from Amazon initially indicated that the company would stand by the book sale on free-speech grounds, but the title is no longer available on its site. Read More Apple smashes patch record with gigantic update Apple this week patched a record 134 Mac OS X vulnerabilities, easily topping the previous record of fixing 90 flaws in March. Read More Open Source and The Cloud: Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly I am not sure why some people think this, but yesterday I read two articles that clearly seem to pit open source versus cloud solutions and open source versus managed services. In my mind nothing can be further than the truth. In fact open source is the great enabler of both of these technologies. Much of the underpinnings of the cloud are in fact open source based. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Supercomputing fest will spotlight world's fastest computers, high-performance issues One of the most fascinating and highly technical conferences in the IT industry will take place next week in New Orleans, when SC10 kicks off with seven days of big computers, and big solutions to big problems. Read More Novell upgrades Zenworks PC management features Novell has released a new version of its Zenworks PC management suite, consolidating separate applications through a new unified administrative console, and adding a range of features including awareness of the end user's identity and location. Read More Riverbed boosts cloud services Riverbed is launching two new products that can make cloud services faster by accelerating traffic and also more economical by reducing corporate data center and storage costs. Read More
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