Lonely week for Cisco Catalyst 6500

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Quick look: The hot Asian space industry Federal agencies ready for big data center squeeze Network World Daily News AM November 08, 2013 Share this email Lonely week for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Perhaps overlooked in all of the Insieme/Arista news this week are references to Cisco's venerable Catalyst 6500 switch. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Quick look: The hot Asian space industry 2. Federal agencies ready for big data center squeeze 3. 5 year old genius Arden Hayes refuses Sony Xperia tablet on Jimmy Kimmel Live in favor of an iPad 4. Recent iOS app updates people hate 5. Do-or-die time for Acer as it hunts for winning strategy 6. Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand letters 7. PaaS market to reach $14 billion by 2017, IDC says 8. Bizarre six-tailed asteroid dumbfounds scientists 9. Researchers dare AI experts to crack new GOTCHA password scheme 10. Customer-facing kiosks: Successes and pitfalls 11. INSIDER 10 reasons to take a Chromebook on the road 12. 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Apparently an Apple type of guy (he is a genius after all), Hayes says Kimmel might as give the tablet away because he's planning on getting... READ MORE Recent iOS app updates people hate iOS app buyers are expressive, especially when they're angry. We looked at the top 100 iPhone and iPad apps in the Business category, free or paid, that were last updated in September or October 2013 to find the ones users HATE – where the total of one/two star ratings surpassed four/five star ratings. Caveats: We used AppStore information from Nov. 1-6; there are relatively few users for many recent updates; and rating profiles could change as more people try out an app. But for now, here are the bad, the ugly, and the craptastic. READ MORE WEBCAST: Internap Big Data and Bare-Metal Cloud The Big Data hype meter is at an all-time high. But getting caught up in the hype can be a bit dangerous for your big data applications if you don't consider how to get the highest disk I/O. Hear why you may be disappointed in your application performance without the right infrastructure in place. View Now Do-or-die time for Acer as it hunts for winning strategy Best known for its low-cost laptops, Acer doesn't really inspire thoughts of premium products. But building high-end hardware could be the Taiwanese vendor's best shot as it looks for a way to rescue its struggling business. READ MORE Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand letters The U.S. Congress should take action to slow a skyrocketing number of "deceptive" patent infringement demand letters sent from patent licensing firms to small businesses, witnesses told a Senate committee. READ MORE PaaS market to reach $14 billion by 2017, IDC says The global market for PaaS (platform as a service) is set to leap from US$3.8 billion last year to more than $14 billion in 2017 as companies look to cut infrastructure costs and speed up application development, according to newly released research from analyst firm IDC. READ MORE Bizarre six-tailed asteroid dumbfounds scientists Many images from deep space are so cool, weird and unusual it is hard to believe they are real sometimes. This is one of them. Astronomers looking deep into the asteroid belt through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they have spotted an asteroid, designated P/2013 P5, with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel or a spinning garden sprinkler. READ MORE WEBCAST: PC Connection EMC VSPEX Helps Optimize Business Performance Businesses need to be as efficient as possible today and need solutions that will help them move to the cloud when and if they are ready. Learn how EMC's VSPEX solution lets you optimize business performance and accelerate your organization's journey to the cloud. Learn More Researchers dare AI experts to crack new GOTCHA password scheme If you can't tell the difference between an inkblot that looks more like "body builder lady with mustache and goofy in the center" than "large steroid insect with big eyes," then you can't crack passwords protected via a new scheme created by computer scientists that they've dubbed GOTCHA. READ MORE Customer-facing kiosks: Successes and pitfalls Though not every experiment has yielded pay dirt, many organizations giving kiosks a go report minimal IT investment and improvement in customer satisfaction or employee self-service. 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