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Hot products from AWS: reInvent Google launches fiber Internet for Kansas City's small businesses Network World Daily News AM November 12, 2014 What's eating up your Mac hard drive? These 5 utilities tell all No matter how slimmed down you believe your Mac's hard drive to be there are likely large files consuming space you could use for better things. These tools ferret out those files. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Hot products from AWS: reInvent 2. Google launches fiber Internet for Kansas City's small businesses 3. Microsoft reveals Windows 10's administrative features 4. Black Friday deals from Target, Best Buy on iPhones, iPads 5. INSIDER Nasuni raises the bar for hybrid cloud storage 6. Juniper's board sings goodnight Shaygan 7. Forget the pollsters: Microsoft's Bing predicted midterm election with 95% accuracy 8. What would a world with infinite, free cloud storage look like? 9. What CIOs can learn from the biggest data breaches 10. 4 ways your company is contributing to the IT skills gap 11. While most eye mobile for the bottom line, the Mormon church has higher goals 12. Apple iMessage lawsuit will go ahead, California judge rules 13. How the FCC can justify regulating U.S. internet 14. A Guide to the Top Mobile Payments Options 15. CA portfolio management services can now reflect IT budget changes 16. Pi, translated: The evolution of Raspberry Pi WHITE PAPER: Binary Tree SMART: Best Practices for Migrating the Corporate Directory A cornerstone of any IT infrastructure, Microsoft Active Directory plays a central role, determining access to and usage rights for IT resources. Migrating AD to a new environment must be planned and managed carefully using best practices, while maintaining operations and user functionality. Learn More Hot products from AWS: reInvent As the show gets rolling this week, here are some of the products on display READ MORE Google launches fiber Internet for Kansas City's small businesses Small businesses in selected neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri now have the opportunity to get in on Google's fiber Internet service, the company announced today.The Google Fiber program had previously been limited to residential customers, and its expansion into the business market signifies the partial fulfillment of Google's long-standing plans to elevate a fiber-enabled Kansas City as a shining example of what very-high-speed Internet service can do for a metropolitan area.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Obama's net neutrality proclamation won't help solve the problem + Intel doubles capacity of its data center SSD +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Microsoft reveals Windows 10's administrative features Much of the attention toward Windows 10 has been geared toward the interest of consumers, namely, the UI. And while Metro has been duly banished, there are other things that matter, like administering the PCs. Microsoft has put those cards on the table, detailing some of its administrative plans for the new OS.Microsoft has already discussed how it plans to make deployment of Windows 10 an easier process. This includes new runtime configuration tools designed to easily transform a device from a basic out-of-the-box experience into a fully configured business device without an OS reimaging.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Black Friday deals from Target, Best Buy on iPhones, iPads Black Friday 2014 ads from big retailers Best Buy and Target have leaked (well, the retailers have pretty much revealed them), and it looks like you can save on Apple products including iPads and the iPhone 6.Best Buy will offer its deals online on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, as well as on Friday. In-store purchases can be made after 5pm Thursday and starting at 8am on Friday.MORE: 20 Best iPhone/iPad Games of 2014 | Black Friday might bring early openings to Apple StoresTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER Nasuni raises the bar for hybrid cloud storage As growth in cloud-based storage products continues to accelerate, enterprise vendors have taken cloud storage to the next level. The hybrid model, which utilizes both local and offsite storage, offers organizations a way to more seamlessly scale up and manage large amounts of data with a single-vendor service.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE WEBCAST: Dell Inc. The Human Side of IT Security The importance of IT security has vastly increased with the expansion in mobility, cloud computing, and social networking. Securing the organization is difficult enough, but it is considerably more difficult because of a number of factors tied to people. Learn more Juniper's board sings goodnight Shaygan An oddly timed ouster of CEO opens the door for a trusted employee who's been with the company since the beginning. READ MORE Forget the pollsters: Microsoft's Bing predicted midterm election with 95% accuracy The search engine continues its track record of astonishingly accurate predictions. READ MORE What would a world with infinite, free cloud storage look like? Cloud storage just keeps getting bigger and cheaper. What happens when it gets to free and infinite? READ MORE What CIOs can learn from the biggest data breaches We keep hearing about them in the news. The tallies are astounding: 145 million user accounts compromised here, 40 million credit cards stolen there. What isn't always as clear with the most high-profile data breaches is how they occurred in the first place and what you can do to prevent seeing your organization in a similar headline. Be sure not to miss: Free security tools you should try CIO.com tapped several security professional to summarize the origins of the top five recent data breaches to affect U.S. firms. There are also lessons to learn from AT&T, Community Health Systems, Experian, Michaels, Neiman Marcus, P.F. Chang's and the UPS Store, among many others.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 4 ways your company is contributing to the IT skills gap If you're an IT or HR manager, you already know there's a major disconnect between the skills, knowledge and experience your organization needs and the availability of those skills in the current talent pool. Be sure not to miss: How to lure tech talent with employee benefits, perks In fact, a recent survey of 37,000 global employers performed by staffing firm Manpower reported that 36 percent say they're having trouble filling available positions. Of those respondents, 35 percent cite a lack of hard skills or "technical competencies" as the reason, while 25 percent cite a lack of experience and 19 percent say a lack of soft skills makes it difficult to fill available roles.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. What to Consider Before Deploying New Laptops Older PCs are a risk due to outdated OSs and the lack of robust hardware-based security. This Cheat Sheet paper discusses the points you should consider when selecting notebooks and laptops for your mobile and remote workforce. View Now While most eye mobile for the bottom line, the Mormon church has higher goals Almost everyone's pouring time and money into smartphones these days. Social networking giants mine them for ad revenue, retail stores use them to reach customers, and credit-card companies want to turn them into wallets. And then there's the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The 15 million-member church has a full-fledged mobile strategy and numerous apps, but all with a set of objectives and challenges that run counter to the big trends in the industry."Our measure of success isn't revenue," said Clint Bishop, senior mobile advisor for LDS, also commonly known as the Mormon church. That sets him apart at conferences like the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, where he sat in the front row on Monday morning for sessions on mobile sports, travel apps and carrier strategies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Apple iMessage lawsuit will go ahead, California judge rules Hours after Apple answered years of complaints by users and issued a tool to correct a bug in its routing of text messages, a federal judge in California ruled a lawsuit against the company over the issue can go ahead.The problem revolves around the way text messages are handled by the iMessage app, which became the default for such messages with the introduction of iOS 5 in October 2011. Messages between iPhone users were routed through Apple's iMessage system rather than the traditional SMS infrastructure and that meant problems for users who switched from iPhones to other devices. After they switched, messages from Apple users to their new phones were still sent through iMessage. Because it's only available on iOS devices, users had no way of receiving those messages.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE How the FCC can justify regulating U.S. internet Throwing his full weight behind net neutrality, President Obama released a statement yesterday supporting the regulation of an open internet. The President's statement didn't have the same impact of Last Week Tonight's John Oliver's net neutrality rant, which ultimately broke the Federal Communications Commission's website. But the President was heard and will bring the net neutrality discussion back to regulating an open internet.See also: Obama's net neutrality proclamation won't help solve the problem Comparing worldwide internet speeds with those in the U.S. and South Korea, home to a government-regulated an internet, bolsters the President's argument. Beginning in 1981, advanced telecommunications became a pillar in the Korean government's educational and economic plans. Charged with modernizing telecommunications, the Korean Telecommunications Authority replaced the slow-moving South Korean Post and Telecom Ministry's bureaucracy. South Korea made the information superhighway the core of an urgent economic restructuring, turning smoke-stack industries into an information technology economy that would compete with the rest of Asia. The results of South Korea's choices of policy and competition are clear.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE A Guide to the Top Mobile Payments Options Apple Pay, Google Wallet or something else? Spending your money just got a whole lot easier. READ MORE CA portfolio management services can now reflect IT budget changes IT and business managers who want to play with their projected budget numbers can now get a hand from a new add-on for CA's flagship project and portfolio management software, formerly called CA Clarity.The extension, called Executive Playbook allows managers to do what-if scenarios, in which they can adjust the budget numbers for one project and see how it impacts a proposed budget in other areas."The Executive Playbook will help IT leadership align the portfolio with the business objectives," said John Michelsen, CA chief technology officer. "For the first time, IT can operate from the very top concept level all the way down to the hours billed and hours paid."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Pi, translated: The evolution of Raspberry Pi It's only been two years, but the Raspberry Pi has already come a long way. 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