Ahead of their time: 9 technologies that came too soon

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IBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters

Nimble spammers exploit Boston bombings, Texas disaster

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April 19, 2013

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Ahead of their time: 9 technologies that came too soon

Sometimes you build it, and they end up not coming.

Issue highlights

1. IBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters

2. Nimble spammers exploit Boston bombings, Texas disaster

3. Boston police use Twitter to inform residents during manhunt

4. Reddit admin fighting DDoS: ""I'm daydreaming of sleep."

5. Motorola patent that got Apple's push mail banned in Germany could be invalid, court says

6. Cloud boosts SAP revenue, even as demand falls in Asia

7. Microsoft: Mum's again the word on Windows 8 sales

8. Browsers pose the greatest threat to enterprise, Microsoft reports

9. Is the Mac Doomed?

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Meritrust Sees Results with FlexPod and VMware

Faced with an aging physical IT infrastructure, Meritrust Credit Union sought a more stable foundation for its business critical applications and for its Oracle database, which is central to its operations. Read Now!

IBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters

IBM is asking that people judge the OpenDaylight SDN project by its accomplishments, not by its roster. READ MORE

Nimble spammers exploit Boston bombings, Texas disaster

Spammers mounted a massive campaign this week following the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday and an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. READ MORE

Boston police use Twitter to inform residents during manhunt

Boston police today used Twitter and Facebook to reach out to residents during a manhunt for one of the men suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon this past Monday. READ MORE

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So Much Data, So Little Control

It used to be that all you had to do to protect your company's intellectual property and customer information was lock the file drawers and, later, put layers of defenses around the data center. Learn More

Reddit admin fighting DDoS: ""I'm daydreaming of sleep."

Reddit, the Internet's hottest social networking site and a beehive of activity surrounding the Boston Marathon Bombings, reports this morning that it is under a "malicious DDoS attack.' While the site and its contents are accessible to me at the moment, I have been unable to log into my Reddit account. READ MORE

Motorola patent that got Apple's push mail banned in Germany could be invalid, court says

A Motorola Mobility patent that was successfully used to force Apple to turn off its iCloud push email services for users in Germany last year could be invalid, the District Court in Mannheim, Germany, said on Friday. READ MORE

Cloud boosts SAP revenue, even as demand falls in Asia

SAP reported strong growth in cloud subscription and support revenue in the first quarter, even as the company saw a decline in software and cloud subscription revenue in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. READ MORE

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VMware vSphere 5.1 QuickStart Series Part 2

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Microsoft: Mum's again the word on Windows 8 sales

Even though PC shipments were down 14% last quarter, Microsoft's Windows division posted revenue about the same as the last year, making up for slumping sales to OEMs with growth in long-term licensing agreements sold to enterprises. READ MORE

Browsers pose the greatest threat to enterprise, Microsoft reports

Microsoft's latest security report has found that Web-based attacks pose the greatest threat to companies, giving credence to efforts to develop browser alternatives to accessing the Internet. READ MORE

Is the Mac Doomed?

OK, this is just plain nuts, but occasionally such are the thoughts of analysts who, after all, are at least partially in the business of synthesizing such scenarios from pieces of disparate data. And this isn't a prediction, at least not yet. I'm a Mac user at least in part because of the stability of the MacOS platform, and, while I won't ever go back to Windows (although the nightmares do seem to... READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP

This paper describes a hardware and software reference architecture for using HP hardware to deploy very large and highly transactional Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 OLTP database systems in tier 1 enterprise application environments. Learn More!

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