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Top 20 colleges for computer science majors, based on earning potential
Among computer science grads, alumni from University of California, Berkeley, led the pack with a median mid-career salary of $141,400, PayScale says. Read More


WEBCAST: Ruckus Wireless

BYOD Meets Smarter WI-Fi
The BYOD phenomenon is no longer a phenomenon but a way of life for IT managers. Dealing with every user now armed with multiple smart devices, some of which are IT sanctioned, the others of which aren't, are driving network manager to the brink of insanity. View Now

WHITE PAPER: Airwatch

Mobile Application Management
The AirWatch® Mobile Application Management (MAM) solution addresses the challenge of acquiring, securing, distributing, and tracking mobile applications. View Now

Computer science major ranks No. 8 for salary potential
PayScale ranked 129 college majors based on earning potential. Engineering, math, science and technology fields dominated the rankings. Read More

Proposed changes to WHOIS system called 'extremely disquieting'
ICANN plan for closed domain name record system criticized over putting too much power into one group's hands. Read More

Brocade stocks fabric and net virtualization arsenal to better battle Cisco
Brocade this week bolstered its fabric networking and network virtualization line-up with new top-of-rack switches and software enhancements. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Good Technology

10 Requirements from Real Customer Deployments
Mobile Device Management (MDM) has ushered in on-the-go access to enterprise data, but that convenience has only whetted the appetite of enterprise users. View Now

How to calculate the costs of solid state drives
Many organizations are considering swapping out some of their Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for Solid State Drives (SSD) to increase I/O throughput and power density (IOPS/Watt). But how do you compare cost vs. performance to determine the best technology mix for specific application environments? Read More

Navy Yard shooter was IT worker with resume of gun violence
The man police suspected of a mass shooting Monday at the Washington Navy Yard, was employed by an IT subcontractor working on a government network project. He got that job despite having an arrest record for gun violence. Read More

Cisco, EMC coalition supports Oracle, VDI
VCE, the data center-focused joint venture formed by Cisco and EMC/VMware, this week rolled out converged infrastructure systems designed to support the latest technology from the founding companies as well as specialized offerings for Oracle and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Symantec

Are Your Mobile Policies Keeping Up?
For CIOs, CISOs, VPs of IT Operations, Mobile Architects, Mobile Program Managers, this paper summarizes the late 2012 Ovum study on what BYOD is, why business people should pay attention to it, and how they should meet emerging opportunities and threats. View Now

HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service
HP took the wraps off its Next-Generation Firewall line designed to exert application-level controls and visibility over all traffic related to the enterprise, including mobile devices used in public WiFi settings and traffic from cloud services. Read More

The Ferengi are bad examples for open-source community management
Many of the most important precepts for managing an open-source community, according to Puppet Labs community lead Dawn Foster, are contained within the pages of science-fiction and fantasy literature. Read More

Report: Nirvanix customers have two weeks to get data out of cloud
Nirvanix, a cloud storage company, is shutting down, according to multiple media reports that have cited reseller partners of the company. Read More


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