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	U.S. military sharing secret cyber threat info with defense contractors A new U.S. military program shares classified information about cyber threats with defense contractors and their ISPs as part of a stepped up effort to blunt potential cyber attacks, a Department of Defense official announced on Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Converged Infrastructure: Enterprise and Mid-Market Storage Download this Solution Brief to learn about agile, efficient, virtualized private cloud storage for the Converged Data Center. Read now In this Issue The data center needs an operating system? Gizmos at Computex 2011 Innovation smackdown semifinal: Vint Cerf vs. Tim Berners-Lee Microsoft rings alarm bell on fake Windows support calls Cisco's core share holds steady Facebook Privacy: How to Block Facial Recognition Gartner: The pros and cons of storage as a service Smart grid (in)securities IBM's new future: Quantum computing RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NetApp Make your move to the cloud with NetApp Transform the promise of cloud computing into real business results. Whether building a private cloud or buying cloud services, learn why companies choose NetApp storage and how they've accelerated time to market, reduced storage management costs, and achieved higher operational efficiencies. Click to continue The data center needs an operating system? The need for a data center operating system increases, but the means of building one are still shaky. Read More Gizmos at Computex 2011 You can find all manner of gizmos on the Computex Show floor, some novel and highly useful and other are gimicky and utterly useless. here are a few that caught our eye, passed on without judgment. Read More Innovation smackdown semifinal: Vint Cerf vs. Tim Berners-Lee What a matchup! The "Father of the Internet" vs. the creator of the World Wide Web. Sounds like a matchup for a finals instead of the semifinals. Cerf has defeated Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, while Berners-Lee has gotten by Ray Ozzie and Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Who will be the first into the finals? Vote now! Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Preparing for Mission-Critical SOA Read this white paper now to see why there's never been a better time to confidently invest in SOA. Learn more. Microsoft rings alarm bell on fake Windows support calls Microsoft today warned that scammers have taken to the phone lines to dupe Windows users into putting malware on their machines or paying for worthless help. Read More Cisco's core share holds steady The service provider core router market is expected to undergo an upgrade cycle as 100Gbps Ethernet gains in adoption. This could build on the 11% growth the market realized in Q1, its fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year growth, according to Dell'Oro Group. Read More Facebook Privacy: How to Block Facial Recognition Facebook now automatically recommends that your friends tag you in photos when it recognizes your face. Here's how to opt-out of this feature. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Is Your Infrastructure Mobile Ready? From data encryption to secure printing, there are many challenges IT mangers at small and midsize businesses face to secure mobile devices. Check out the resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault to help develop a master plan. Read now Gartner: The pros and cons of storage as a service Gartner this week offered some cautionary advice on storage as a service, saying that while services available do "offer a low-cost tier of storage," there are sometimes drawbacks to them, such as long latencies and limited bandwidth. Read More Smart grid (in)securities As the power grid becomes more intelligent, it also becomes more dangerous. Read More IBM's new future: Quantum computing IBM marks its 100th anniversary by celebrating its record in technology innovation. Read More
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