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	Monster bosses: Be very afraid Even the best bosses can occasionally take on some of the traits of these monsters. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Cloud Storage and Backup The proliferation of cloud computing options has begun to change the way storage is thought about, procured and used. IT managers and departments need to think through how cloud options might fit into and complement their onsite data infrastructures. Read Now In this Issue 10 tech terrors that will haunt your dreams Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud hit by worldwide management interuption Fake social media ID duped security-aware IT guys Eucalyptus eases way to bring Amazon cloud deployments in-house Windows XP infection rate may jump 66% after patches end in April Hapless Healthcare.gov website gets royal SNL treatment Coast Guard spills the beans on Google's mystery barges How CIOs Can Become Business Heroes Gartner: 'Five Styles of Advanced Threat Defense' can protect enterprise from targeted attacks WHITE PAPER: AT&T Managing Mobile Access to the Cloud Use of mobile personal cloud services is proliferating on personal and enterprise-owned mobile devices. Organizations are considering controls that appear to conflict with the spirit of BYOD and wonder if their approach is correct. Learn More 10 tech terrors that will haunt your dreams Step into our house of techno-horrors where there is no Esc key. Read More Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud hit by worldwide management interuption Microsoft's Windows Azure suffered from an issue on Wednesday that affected a management feature in the compute section of the public cloud, and remained unsolved Thursday morning. Read More Fake social media ID duped security-aware IT guys Security experts used fake Facebook and LinkedIn profiles pretending to represent a smart, attractive young woman to penetrate the defenses of a U.S. government agency with a high level of cybersecurity awareness, as part of an exercise that shows how effective social engineering attacks can be, even against technically sophisticated organizations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Spirent Communications Challenges for Modern Networks Built Using SDN and OpenFlow The Testing Challenges of SDN and OpenFlow white paper Covers Emerging network deployment scenarios, Current shifts in traffic type crossing networks and Challenges with Cost, Agility and Design. Read Now Eucalyptus eases way to bring Amazon cloud deployments in-house Eucalyptus has updated its namesake software to make it easier for organizations to set up their own, in-house versions of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud, letting users run Amazon workloads in private cloud deployments. Read More Windows XP infection rate may jump 66% after patches end in April Microsoft yesterday again but the scare into Windows XP users, telling them that after April 8, 2014, the chance that malware will infect their PCs could jump by two-thirds. Read More Hapless Healthcare.gov website gets royal SNL treatment SNL sunk its teeth into the Healthcare.gov website mess on Saturday night, kicking off the show with a skit featuring Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius offering solutions for the technical difficulties some folks have been running into with the Obamacare centerpiece. This spoof will probably be nothing, however, next to the grilling Sebelius is expected to get Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More Coast Guard spills the beans on Google's mystery barges The U.S. Coast Guard has given up what could be a key clue in the tale of two mysterious barges moored on either side of the country. Read More How CIOs Can Become Business Heroes Columnist Michael Hugos offers clear directions for how CIOs can open the exit door from the techie trap. Read More Gartner: 'Five Styles of Advanced Threat Defense' can protect enterprise from targeted attacks Attackers want to compromise networks and computers to steal sensitive information from the enterprise by using sophisticated malware. Research firm Gartner says IT can protect the enterprise against targeted attacks in five basic ways, and recommends combining at least two of them together for best effect. Read More
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