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	INSIDER Big data's biggest challenges IT pros from social media, healthcare and insurance industries share their big-data success stories and lessons learned. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Silver Peak Tired of Costly Riverbed WanOp Hardware? Now is the time to make the switch from Riverbed to Silver Peak. Silver Peak's software can save you 80% in hardware costs, maximize deployment flexibility (any hypervisor; any device), and has been tested and rated by InfoWorld to outperform Riverbed hardware. Compare prices now and see for yourself In this Issue Riverbed's next great hope for redemption Cryptolocker: Ransomware on the loose Mars manned mission: "2018 is our last chance to be first" INSIDER How IT found savings by tackling (instead of cringing at) photocopiers Ooma Office: This VoIP-based phone system makes small businesses seem big Argonne's MIRA supercomputer solves jet engines, Pringles and everything in between Microsoft to deliver Office 2013 SP1 in early '14 White House wants 5,000 veterans in wireless tech jobs by 2015 WEBCAST: Internap Big Data and Bare-Metal Cloud The Big Data hype meter is at an all-time high. But getting caught up in the hype can be a bit dangerous for your big data applications if you don't consider how to get the highest disk I/O. Hear why you may be disappointed in your application performance without the right infrastructure in place. View Now Riverbed's next great hope for redemption The WAN optimization leader recently presented its platform for "location-independent computing." Read More Cryptolocker: Ransomware on the loose [View the story "Cryptolocker: Ransomware on the loose" on Storify] Read More WHITE PAPER: Fortinet High Performance Data Center Firewall Survey With Data Centers consolidating and virtualizing, the core infrastructure is upgrading to 10G, 40G and even 100G. The Firewall must keep pace with these changes otherwise it becomes a bottleneck. Does your Firewall have the horsepower to keep up? View now >> Mars manned mission: "2018 is our last chance to be first" It seems that US human space-trip to Mars grow ever-more unlikely each time Congress talks about NASA and the budget. Read More INSIDER How IT found savings by tackling (instead of cringing at) photocopiers Say the word 'photocopier,' and most IT leaders have visions of skilled workers wasting time undoing paper jams. But for Karl Collins, vice president of technical services and infrastructure at SavaSeniorCare, IT's newfound ownership of enterprise-wide photocopiers has yielded $739,000 annual savings and increased visibility among executives. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Business Value of Creating Exceptional Digital Experiences Join us for this live broadcast on November 21, 2013 at 11AM US ET to review the findings of IDC's recent analytical report titled: "The Business Value of IBM's Exceptional Digital Experience Solutions." Register Now Ooma Office: This VoIP-based phone system makes small businesses seem big Every business must interact with its customers via the telephone at some point. And it won't matter how great your employees are, or how superb your product might be, if your customers have a bad experience trying to reach the right people on the phone. Read More Argonne's MIRA supercomputer solves jet engines, Pringles and everything in between Packing more than 786,000 processor cores, and putting out more than 8.5 petaflops of sustained computing performance, the Argonne National Lab's MIRA supercomputer is among the most powerful. Read More Microsoft to deliver Office 2013 SP1 in early '14 Microsoft today said it will ship the first service pack for Office 2013 sometime early next year -- most likely in late February -- if it sticks to its usual release cadence. Read More White House wants 5,000 veterans in wireless tech jobs by 2015 The White House today said it strengthened the nonprofit program aimed at getting veterans and returning service members jobs in the hot wireless telecommunications arena. Read More
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