BlackBerry now seeks lenders not buyers … and new CEO

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Arista fires broadside at Cisco/Insieme with new switches 10 companies making the Internet of Things a reality Network World Daily News PM November 04, 2013 Share this email BlackBerry now seeks lenders not buyers … and new CEO Foundering BlackBerry has given up for now on finding a buyer. Instead the smartphone company is seeking an infusion of cash from some investors, and shaking up its board and executive leadership. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Arista fires broadside at Cisco/Insieme with new switches 2. 10 companies making the Internet of Things a reality 3. Why power users will love the Nexus 5 4. Twitter increases top end of IPO price to $25 a share 5. Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Silence is Golden Edition 6. Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive 7. 10 Chrome offline apps for business 8. Apple puts the ball in Microsoft's court 9. HP porting venerable Nonstop server platform to x86 10. VCE is kicking the tires on OpenStack 11. 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Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": READ MORE Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. READ MORE WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware The Data Center To counteract data center server sprawl, organizations are consolidating servers through virtualization. Result: lower operating costs, enhanced business continuity and improved disaster recovery. View Now 10 Chrome offline apps for business READ MORE Apple puts the ball in Microsoft's court Apple's decision to give away OS X upgrades and other software, including the iWork productivity suite, is seen as both an offensive and a defensive move that challenges Microsoft to respond. READ MORE HP porting venerable Nonstop server platform to x86 Hewlett-Packard has announced a multi-year effort to port its Nonstop server systems, used by banks, telcos and other businesses that need maximum reliability, from Intel's Itanium architecture to x86. READ MORE VCE is kicking the tires on OpenStack Engineers at VCE, which is the company formed when EMC and Cisco came together with investments from VMware and Intel to create a converged infrastructure platform, are exploring how VCE vBlocks can be used as underlying hardware for OpenStack clouds. READ MORE Information Security versus "Shadow IT" (and mobility, cloud computing, BYOD, etc.) We've all read the marketing hype about "shadow IT" where business managers make their own IT decisions without the CIO's knowledge or approval. 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