Why wearables will make 1st breakthrough in enterprise

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New products of the week 07.21.14 25G Ethernet moving fast Network World Daily News AM July 24, 2014 Share this email Why wearables will make 1st breakthrough in enterprise Fitbits and smart watches and Google Glass are all well and good, but the most meaningful early use of wearable technology will happen in industrial and enterprise settings, according to experts on a Wednesday panel discussion at the Wearable Tech Expo in New York. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. New products of the week 07.21.14 2. 25G Ethernet moving fast 3. INSIDER Apache Hive brings real-time queries to Hadoop 4. Facebook isn't giving up on search 5. Friday is SysAdmin Appreciation Day: Here's one way to make sure you're appreciated 6. Microsoft verging on single OS across all devices 7. Top 5 take-aways from Tim Cook on Apple's Q3 earnings call 8. IBM aims to disrupt supercomputing market with cloud enticements 9. Salesforce.com launches Sales Reach for real-time selling and marketing 10. Twitter employees mainly male and white, says it has 'lot of work to do' 11. More AT&T customers switch to paying for their phones 12. The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2014 (so far!) WHITE PAPER: CommVault 2014 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software Enterprise backup is among the oldest, most-performed tasks for IT professionals. Gartner provides analysis and evaluation of the leading providers that offer a range of traditional to innovative recovery capabilities. Learn More New products of the week 07.21.14 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as IBM and HP. READ MORE 25G Ethernet moving fast The second highest server Ethernet port sales and shipments may be 25G over the next five years, according to Dell'Oro Group. First will be 10G, which will account for more than 50% of the $1.7 billion in revenue and 40 million ports by 2018.Twenty-five gigabit Ethernet is taking off fast. A handful of very powerful data center and cloud vendors and suppliers – Google, Microsoft, Broadcom, Arista and Mellanox – formed a consortium three weeks ago to promote and catalyze development of it. Cisco said it too is planning to join this group.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER Apache Hive brings real-time queries to Hadoop Apache Hive is a tool built on top of Hadoop for analyzing large, unstructured data sets using a SQL-like syntax, thus making Hadoop accessible to legions of existing BI and corporate analytics researchers. Developed by Facebook engineers and contributed to the Apache Foundation as an open source project, Hive is now at the forefront of big data analysis in commercial environments. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Facebook isn't giving up on search Facebook reported Wednesday that it now handles an average of more than 1 billion searches a day, but it still has work to do to provide a comprehensive search tool.Early last year, Facebook unveiled an ambitious search project called Graph Search. The feature was conceived to index the people on Facebook, their posts and the connections between them, to provide a personalized search tool based around people's social networks. It would allow for searches on a variety of topics pertaining to places, people, interests and other topics.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: IBM The Next Generation of Big Data Learn about IBM's new and expanded Information Management capabilities now delivered in the cloud. Learn More Friday is SysAdmin Appreciation Day: Here's one way to make sure you're appreciated Friday is the 15th annual SysAdmin Appreciation Day. Pictured above is a related poster created by and featuring the IT department of the Launch Federal Credit Union, which serves Florida's Cape Canaveral region."We didn't feel appreciated enough last year," writes a Launch FCU sysadmin on a SpiceWorks message board, "so we sent this email to all employees and displayed 20 of these posters in visible places in every department."In case you can't make out all the words in the picture, the key sentence reads: "So appreciate an IT person today and we may allow you to use your computer tomorrow."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Microsoft verging on single OS across all devices Microsoft seems on the brink of announcing a major enhancement to its operating system lines, namely merging them into a single OS that could bring big benefits for corporate users. READ MORE Top 5 take-aways from Tim Cook on Apple's Q3 earnings call Apple's Tim Cook says iPhone thriving, iPad innovation on tap, Apple is an enterprise company READ MORE IBM aims to disrupt supercomputing market with cloud enticements IBM is offering a potentially powerful incentive in its attempts to entice organizations to move supercomputing jobs to the cloud: a high-speed network communications link called InfiniBand."Companies are embracing cloud for standard workloads, but they are also looking to move their high-performance workloads to the cloud, or looking to augment capacity they have in-house," said Marc Jones, IBM SoftLayer vice president of product innovation. "A lot of these companies will have workloads that are extremely demanding of performance."InfiniBand may help sway their decision to go to the cloud, Jones said. SoftLayer, the IBM subsidiary running the company's cloud infrastructure, will offer the option of using InfiniBand to connect bare metal servers within its data centers by the end of the year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: OutSystems Kick Start Your Mobile Strategy It's time to kick start your mobile application strategy. • Why go mobile? • What are the three primary mobile application types? • What type of app should you build first? • How to get started, really fast! Read Now Salesforce.com launches Sales Reach for real-time selling and marketing Salespeople can track prospects closer than ever before READ MORE Twitter employees mainly male and white, says it has 'lot of work to do' Twitter disclosed the gender and ethnicity breakdown of its employees on Wednesday, less than a week after U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson called on the company to release its employee diversity information.The data is more or less in line with that released earlier by the company's Silicon Valley peers like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn, which showed that both women and blacks are a minority in their companies.Silicon Valley tech companies have been under pressure to release their employee diversity data after Jackson initiated a campaign to highlight the underrepresentation of African-Americans in Silicon Valley companies, starting with a delegation in March to Hewlett-Packard's annual meeting of shareholders.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE More AT&T customers switch to paying for their phones A majority of AT&T's new smartphone customers are now choosing a plan where they pay for their phones over time, helping to drive strong second-quarter financial results, the carrier said.Under the AT&T Next plan, introduced last July, subscribers make monthly device payments and can switch to a new phone model once a year. That saves AT&T from having to subsidize the phone, something U.S. mobile operators have done for years at great cost. Interest in Next is accelerating, making up more than 50 percent of the carrier's smartphone additions and plan upgrades in the second quarter.AT&T Next and multiple-device, shared-data plans also led subscribers to buy and use more mobile data, the carrier said. Just over half of its postpaid customers are on AT&T Mobile Share plans, and 49 percent of those accounts have signed up for 10GB per month or more.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2014 (so far!) 2014 has featured crop circles, advanced toilet tech, flying saucers, wild software development READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP Why you need a next-generation firewall This white paper explores the reasons for implementing NG firewalls and lays out a path to success for overburdened IT organizations. 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