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Run from Daylight
Once word started to spread among the vendor community about the OpenDaylight SDN project before it was announced, Dell decided to initiate its own SDN standards effort within the Object Management Group. That effort, an SDN working committee within the OMG, now has about 20 other participants, said Tom Burns, vice president and general manager of Dell Networking. Read More

OpenDaylight is building on our work, SDN group's director says
The OpenDaylight Project may have won attention last week with a founding list of vendors including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, but it's standing on the shoulders of others, according to the head of the Open Networking Foundation. Read More

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Google adds IT admin features for Chrome browser
Google has beefed up the administration and management controls that IT staff have over their users' Chrome browsers. Read More

Kaspersky Lab launches world's first anti-malware product for UEFI
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How QR codes can hack your phone
By: Bhavesh Naik With the huge popularity in mobile devices like the smartphone and tablets, two-dimensional barcodes, also called QR codes, are beloved by marketers. QR codes, or Quick Response codes, were designed for the automotive industry in Japan. Now, QR codes have become popular outside the industry due to greater reliability and storage space. Originally designed for industrial application,... Read More

DDOS attacks have increased in number and size this year, report says
The volume, duration and frequency of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks used to flood websites and other systems with junk traffic have significantly increased during the first three months of this year, according to a report released Wednesday by Florida-based DDOS mitigation provider Prolexic. Read More

Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop
Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, called Savanna, that will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service. Read More

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