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	Battle looms over securing virtualized systems There's growing consensus that traditional approaches to network security -- the firewall and intrusion-prevention appliances, the host-based antivirus software -- simply do not work well in virtualized environments for which they were never designed. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Six Advantages of a Cloud-Based Help Desk Small and midsize companies shouldn't have to use less efficient, limited-functionality service desk solutions. Today's cloud-based help desks pack the same punch as on-premise enterprise solutions, without a large up-front investment or long installation time. Read more to find out how to get started with a cloud-based help desk today. Read More Today! In this Issue Groupon IPO filing generates more jeers than cheers Hotmail and Yahoo users also victims of targeted attacks Cisco resorting to intimidation tactics Computex 2011: The Top 14 Stories So Far at Taiwan's Giant Tech Show Daily innovation smackdown: Ray Ozzie vs. Jerry Yang IRS: Top 10 things every taxpayer should know about identity theft Sony Pictures falls victim to major data breach Apple, Google, Facebook turn N.C. into data center hub Google adds '+1' rating feature to Android Market Move over flash: Here comes phase-change memory FAQ: What's the future of OpenOffice.org? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Aerohive Networks Aerohive Networks: Cloud-based Wi-Fi Done Right Aerohive simplifies networks with cloud-enabled, distributed Wi-Fi and routing solutions for medium sized enterprises including branch offices and teleworkers. Aerohive's cooperative control Wi-Fi architecture, public or private cloud-enabled network management, routing and VPN solutions eliminate costly controllers and single points of failure. Click to continue Groupon IPO filing generates more jeers than cheers While Groupon's IPO filing yesterday was certainly not unexpected, the largely negative reaction to it may surprise some, even if it fails to dampen enthusiasm for the offering. Nicholas Carlson at Business Insider provides a concise rundown of the key facts and figures. The one that seems to be attracting the most public attention is that Groupon lost $413 million last year. Read More Hotmail and Yahoo users also victims of targeted attacks Web mail users at Yahoo and Hotmail have been hit with the same kind of targeted attacks that were disclosed earlier this week by Google, according to security software vendor Trend Micro. Read More Cisco resorting to intimidation tactics Customers accuse Cisco of intimidation when they did not buy anything, or enough from, the world's leading and largest networking company. According to this Bloomberg story, Cisco questioned the competency of IT and networking officials at companies that rejected Cisco in favor of equipment from its competitors. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Avert a Storage Space and Power Crisis Cornell Medical College was exceeding space and power capacities in its NYC data center. After evaluating storage arrays from multiple vendors, they chose 3PAR to "right-size" their storage and deploy a robust, highly virtualized infrastructure that integrated seamlessly with VMware, reduced their storage footprint and minimized power consumption. Read Now. Computex 2011: The Top 14 Stories So Far at Taiwan's Giant Tech Show Processor wars, new tablets galore and Chrome OS' move to Asia were some of the hot topics at this week's Computex 2011 Tech show. Take a look. Read More Daily innovation smackdown: Ray Ozzie vs. Jerry Yang Did voters let Ray Ozzie move to the second round because of his innovative prowess or is there enough disdain for Steve Ballmer out there that they would vote for anyone but him? Ozzie gained 90% of the vote vs Ballmer in round 1 and now sets his sights on Yahoo's Jerry Yang, who had a tougher time with Symantec's John Thompson in the previous round. If Microsoft had bought Yahoo this could have been a second match where Ozzie tries to take down a Microsoft exec (of which he used to be one also). Read More IRS: Top 10 things every taxpayer should know about identity theft As part of a look at the impact of identity theft and the Internal Revenue Service, watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office issued the IRS' top 10 list of identity theft information everyone should be aware of. Some of the information is obvious, perhaps, but overall even the basics of security were followed in many cases the impact of identity theft could be reduced. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobility KnowledgeVault The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault provide expert guidance, peer advice, survey results and best practices to help you protect your mobile infrastructure. From determining a policy for employee-owned devices and data encryption to supporting the six major mobile operating systems, securing mobile devices and data is a top priority. View now Sony Pictures falls victim to major data breach LulzSec, a hacking group that recently made news for hacking into PBS, claimed today that it has broken into several Sony Pictures websites and accessed unencrypted personal information on over 1 million people. Read More Apple, Google, Facebook turn N.C. into data center hub Apple is the latest high-profile tech company to open a data center in western North Carolina to take advantage of relatively low land and power costs. Read More Google adds '+1' rating feature to Android Market Google is giving Android Market users a new way to evaluate Android Market applications even as it struggles to keep malicious apps off the store. Read More Move over flash: Here comes phase-change memory University of California, San Diego researchers next week plan to demonstrate a solid state storage device that uses phase-change memory to blow away traditional hard drives and even newer flash drives. Read More FAQ: What's the future of OpenOffice.org? Oracle suddenly announced Wednesday it was submitting the codebase for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, ending speculation about the open-source productivity suite's fate following Oracle's recent announcement it would be transitioned to a "solely community-based project." Read More
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