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Internet-facing SAP systems suffering increased attacks

June 18, 2013 - Security researcher Alexander Polyakov reports finding thousands of unpatched and insecure SAP servers scattered all over the world
Application Security
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Virtualization Report

Bromium vSentry 2.0 protects users, companies with latest microvisor

June 18, 2013 - New release focuses on user mobility and collaboration and now leverages the Xen hypervisor
Virtualization
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Security Adviser

It's over: All private data is public

June 18, 2013 - Enough about the NSA -- any hacker worthy of the name can snatch your 'private' data. Either stop entrusting it to anyone or chill out
Data Security
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Cloud Computing

Don't hold your breath for office apps in the cloud

June 18, 2013 - A recent Gartner report shows that the growth of cloud-based office automation applications is steady but slow
SaaS
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Mobile Edge

Guess what? IT doesn't care what's on your iPhone

June 18, 2013 - Despite fearmongering over rogue and information-leaking apps, very few organizations actually control mobile app usage
Mobile Device Management (MDM)
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Notes from the Field

Snowden has answers, but NSA still holds the questions

June 17, 2013 - The IT pro at the center of the NSA scandal held an online Q&A today. We'd tell you what he said, but then we'd have to kill you
Cringely
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Modernizing IT

Is Microsoft's Metro UI the real problem?

June 17, 2013 - Microsoft's phone and tablet market shares remain stuck in single digits, which suggests Windows 8's difficulties go beyond the mishmash of Metro and Desktop UIs
Microsoft Windows
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The Deep End

The end of the open Internet as we know it?

June 17, 2013 - PRISM exposes an Internet devolving from an open flow of human ideas into an X-ray machine with an agenda
Government
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Smart User

Yes, iOS 7 copies Windows Phone and Android -- get used to it

June 14, 2013 - Apple's rivals have shamelessly copied Macs, iPods, iPhones, and iPads for decades; now Apple returns the compliment
iOS
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Open Sources

How to break out of PRISM

June 14, 2013 - NSA scandal has exploded fears of being watched on the Internet, but a new website lists ways to escape the Panopticon
Open Source Software
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Tech's Bottom Line

Bigger, better, stronger, faster: How IBM's Watson upends Moore's Law

June 13, 2013 - IBM's Watson hits the cloud, kicking aside old baseline theory and closing the distance between memory and processing
Cloud computing
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Smart Leader

Cozy CIO-vendor relationships are more dangerous than ever

June 13, 2013 - Tech innovation, speed, and flexibility -- and thus business success -- are at risk when IT and vendors become codependent
IT Management
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Enterprise Windows

Clever is as clever does with avoiding e-discovery

June 12, 2013 - When it comes to discovery requests, limited data retention sounds good in theory but may not be in practice
Risk Management
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Off The Record

When developers battle testers, users lose

June 12, 2013 - In territorial wars between testing and development teams, the users and the app feel the force of the fight
IT Jobs
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InfoWorld InfoTube

Video: Tim Cook unveils iOS 7

June 10, 2013 - Apple's CEO was joined by Craig Federighi, senior VP of software engineering, onstage at WWDC to introduce new OS
iOS
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Information Overload

Seriously, you need to think about IPv6

June 10, 2013 - Although everyone seems to ignore the inevitable, IPv6 will become a reality soon, so plan for it now
IPv6
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Strategic Developer

Get real, Bill -- we do need more H-1Bs for tech workers

June 06, 2013 - Until we address underlying causes of developer shortage, we'll need all possible H-1B visas to keep the industry going
Application Development, IT Jobs, H-1B
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The Squeaky Wheel

The right way to manage BYOD

June 03, 2013 - A tiered access approach to information assets is the key to effective mobile security
BYOD, IT Management, Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Security
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Extreme Analytics

There's no shortage of data science smarts

May 16, 2013 - Powerful new big data tools demand analytics expertise -- but a growing body of shared knowledge and a new generation of self-taught experts will fill the gap
Big Data, IT Jobs, Data Modeling, Open Source Software
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Think Big Data

Big movies, big data: Netflix embraces NoSQL in the cloud

May 02, 2013 - With billions of reads and writes daily, Netflix relies on NoSQL database Cassandra to replace a legacy Oracle deployment
Big Data, Amazon Web Services, E-commerce, NoSQL, Open Source Software, Data Management
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Grok

What is object storage?

April 05, 2013 - Highly scalable, simple, cheap, distributed storage for the cloud
Data Center, IaaS, Cloud computing, Storage
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Lab Notes

CodeMirror: Edit code in your browser

March 29, 2013 - JavaScript-based code editor supports JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java, SQL, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby -- you name it
Application Development, Development Tools, Java Programming, JavaScript, Perl, PHP Web, Python, Ruby on Rails
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Advice Line

19 principles every IT leader should heed

March 13, 2013 - Want to be a next-gen IT leader? Here are the most important principles for business leadership -- especially in IT
IT Management, IT Strategy
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