Geekiest/Techiest Easter Eggs

*Happy Geekster! (And Easter, too!) I do love tech. Next time I have a couple of hours free, I'm going to write up a post on using Audacity for sound recording for my Disco blog. (I have 35 blogs by subject) Maybe I'll post it here as well. - Dan

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IT pros struggle to manage Big Data Deep inside Windows Blue: 10 coolest features in Microsoft's leaked OS Network World Daily News AM March 31, 2013 Share this email Geekiest/Techiest Easter Eggs Decorate your Easter basket with these geek-licious designs READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. IT pros struggle to manage Big Data 2. Deep inside Windows Blue: 10 coolest features in Microsoft's leaked OS 3. Avaya CEO talks competition, debt, innovation 4. Cloud prices: How low can they go? 5. Juniper uncorks its core SDN switch earlier than expected 6. Researchers find new point-of-sale malware called BlackPOS 7. HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now 8. Cisco lays off 500 of workforce 9. Army takes a flier on OpenSim 10. iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 29 11. Google's famous follies: 10 favorite April Fools' gags and Easter Eggs 12. Madeleine Albright: 'There's a special place in hell reserved for women who refuse to help one another' in the workforce RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: InterMapper The #1 real-time network mapping and monitoring tool. InterMapper provides an at-a-glance, real-time view of your network devices, services, applications, connections and traffic patterns. Drilling down on maps uncovers details needed to fix performance problems. It is an industrial strength monitoring, mapping and alerting tool that empowers network administrators to maintain healthy IT environments. IT pros struggle to manage Big Data IT professionals and businesses are struggling to extract strategic value from their Big Data, according to global research. READ MORE Deep inside Windows Blue: 10 coolest features in Microsoft's leaked OS After an abundance of rumors, whispers, and slip-ups in job postings, we now have more concrete evidence of Microsoft's secretive Windows Blue operating system: An honest-to-goodness leak of an early build of the OS. READ MORE Avaya CEO talks competition, debt, innovation Avaya is pushing a new range of unified communications products, but is finding that managed services are becoming more popular among its customers who would rather turn over complex UC transitions to someone else for a predictable monthly fee, says the company's CEO Kevin Kennedy. READ MORE Cloud prices: How low can they go? Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers are battling in a price war that has seen 29 price reductions by the four major providers during the past 14 months, a trend industry analysts expect to continue. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Eaton Corporation The Essential Guide to Managing Power In this interactive KnowledgeVault, you'll find short videos, white papers, case studies, briefs and more, all designed to tackle the issues surrounding electrical power and how to better manage it in light of the demands caused by virtualization and cloud computing. Learn More Juniper uncorks its core SDN switch earlier than expected Earlier than expected, Juniper this week unveiled the EX9200 programmable core switch for 10G, 40G and 100Gbps software-defined networks. READ MORE Researchers find new point-of-sale malware called BlackPOS A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics company based in Russia. READ MORE HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop. READ MORE Cisco lays off 500 of workforce Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 500 people as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. The Recent DDoS Attacks on Banks: 7 Key Lessons Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow in size, complexity and danger. Witness the recent wave of attacks on major U.S. banks, which knocked websites offline, angered customers and took a grave toll on brand reputations. Learn More. Army takes a flier on OpenSim The U.S. Army is not new to using simulated virtual environments for training. In fact, almost all soldiers have used virtual simulations, according to Douglas Maxwell, the science and technology manager for virtual world strategic applications at the Army's Simulation & Training Technology Center in Orlando. READ MORE iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 29 The iOSphere wheezed this week, trying to breathe new life into limp rumors. It pretty much failed. READ MORE Google's famous follies: 10 favorite April Fools' gags and Easter Eggs The Goog has a long and storied history of April Fools' Day jokes and offbeat Easter Eggs. Here's a look at some of our favorites. READ MORE Madeleine Albright: 'There's a special place in hell reserved for women who refuse to help one another' in the workforce Speaking at the CIA Women's History Month Celebration this week former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered a number of career advancing suggestions for women in the workforce. 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