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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Geekiest/Techiest Easter Eggs

*Happy Geekster! (And Easter, too!) I do love tech. Next time I have a couple of hours free, I'm going to write up a post on using Audacity for sound recording for my Disco blog. (I have 35 blogs by subject) Maybe I'll post it here as well. - Dan

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IT pros struggle to manage Big Data

Deep inside Windows Blue: 10 coolest features in Microsoft's leaked OS

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Geekiest/Techiest Easter Eggs

Decorate your Easter basket with these geek-licious designs

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Issue highlights

1. IT pros struggle to manage Big Data

2. Deep inside Windows Blue: 10 coolest features in Microsoft's leaked OS

3. Avaya CEO talks competition, debt, innovation

4. Cloud prices: How low can they go?

5. Juniper uncorks its core SDN switch earlier than expected

6. Researchers find new point-of-sale malware called BlackPOS

7. HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

8. Cisco lays off 500 of workforce

9. Army takes a flier on OpenSim

10. iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 29

11. Google's famous follies: 10 favorite April Fools' gags and Easter Eggs

12. Madeleine Albright: 'There's a special place in hell reserved for women who refuse to help one another' in the workforce

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IT pros struggle to manage Big Data

IT professionals and businesses are struggling to extract strategic value from their Big Data, according to global research. READ MORE

Deep inside Windows Blue: 10 coolest features in Microsoft's leaked OS

After an abundance of rumors, whispers, and slip-ups in job postings, we now have more concrete evidence of Microsoft's secretive Windows Blue operating system: An honest-to-goodness leak of an early build of the OS. READ MORE

Avaya CEO talks competition, debt, innovation

Avaya is pushing a new range of unified communications products, but is finding that managed services are becoming more popular among its customers who would rather turn over complex UC transitions to someone else for a predictable monthly fee, says the company's CEO Kevin Kennedy. READ MORE

Cloud prices: How low can they go?

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers are battling in a price war that has seen 29 price reductions by the four major providers during the past 14 months, a trend industry analysts expect to continue. READ MORE

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Juniper uncorks its core SDN switch earlier than expected

Earlier than expected, Juniper this week unveiled the EX9200 programmable core switch for 10G, 40G and 100Gbps software-defined networks. READ MORE

Researchers find new point-of-sale malware called BlackPOS

A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics company based in Russia. READ MORE

HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop. READ MORE

Cisco lays off 500 of workforce

Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 500 people as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. READ MORE

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The Recent DDoS Attacks on Banks: 7 Key Lessons

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow in size, complexity and danger. Witness the recent wave of attacks on major U.S. banks, which knocked websites offline, angered customers and took a grave toll on brand reputations. Learn More.

Army takes a flier on OpenSim

The U.S. Army is not new to using simulated virtual environments for training. In fact, almost all soldiers have used virtual simulations, according to Douglas Maxwell, the science and technology manager for virtual world strategic applications at the Army's Simulation & Training Technology Center in Orlando. READ MORE

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 29

The iOSphere wheezed this week, trying to breathe new life into limp rumors. It pretty much failed. READ MORE

Google's famous follies: 10 favorite April Fools' gags and Easter Eggs

The Goog has a long and storied history of April Fools' Day jokes and offbeat Easter Eggs. Here's a look at some of our favorites. READ MORE

Madeleine Albright: 'There's a special place in hell reserved for women who refuse to help one another' in the workforce

Speaking at the CIA Women's History Month Celebration this week former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered a number of career advancing suggestions for women in the workforce. READ MORE

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The Network Foundation of an IT-to-ET Transformation

Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT There's an evolutionary process at work that will eventually affect every enterprise IT department. Nemertes Research describes it as a transformation from IT to ET – Enterprise Technology. Learn More

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

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Google's famous follies: 10 favorite April Fools’ gags and Easter Eggs

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Critical denial-of-service flaw in BIND software puts DNS servers at risk

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 29

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March 29, 2013
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Google's famous follies: 10 favorite April Fools' gags and Easter Eggs

The Goog has a long and storied history of April Fools' Day jokes and offbeat Easter Eggs. Here's a look at some of our favorites.

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Issue highlights

1. Critical denial-of-service flaw in BIND software puts DNS servers at risk

2. iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 29

3. The next big thing on Twitter: #TwitterChats

4. It's in the algorithm: Extremely tight races in Major League Baseball chase this year

5. INSIDER Companies take bold steps into desktop virtualization

6. Dell consolidates, plans unified software and all-flash arrays

7. Tizen is no Android, but will still play an important role

8. Feeling Retro? dBASE is back with a modern look

9. Unified Networking and SDN – A New Farpoint Group White Paper

10. GDC2013: Get a NASCAR race car tour and learn why drivers love online games

11. Products of the week 3.25.13

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Critical denial-of-service flaw in BIND software puts DNS servers at risk

A flaw in the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers and affect the operation of other programs running on the same machines. READ MORE

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 29

The iOSphere wheezed this week, trying to breathe new life into limp rumors. It pretty much failed. READ MORE

The next big thing on Twitter: #TwitterChats

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It's in the algorithm: Extremely tight races in Major League Baseball chase this year

Perhaps not surprisingly parity is coming to Major League Baseball this season if you believe the mathematical analysis of a researcher at New Jersey's science and technology university, NJIT. READ MORE

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Companies take bold steps into desktop virtualization

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Dell consolidates, plans unified software and all-flash arrays

In the midst of going private, Dell executives said today they've already consolidated their three storage product divisions into one, they are working on merging their system management interfaces, and they have a number of new products coming out over the next year. READ MORE

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Tizen is no Android, but will still play an important role

Tizen is clumsily positioned directly against Android and iOS. Its backers - Samsung, Intel, the Linux foundation, and a large community of open source developers with experience competing with and against market-leading OS platforms - are not that naive. Naïveté aside, Tizen can play an important role. READ MORE

Feeling Retro? dBASE is back with a modern look

Some of you are old enough to remember a time when the main word processor, spreadsheet and personal database programs were NOT Word, Excel and Access. Thirty years ago, dBASE ruled IBM PC compatibles and were the standard for data management alongside Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect. READ MORE

Unified Networking and SDN – A New Farpoint Group White Paper

I've written about unified wired/wireless networking a number of times in the past, initially exploring this rapidly-emerging concept from the perspective of unified management systems. And while the benefits of unification at the management layer is, IMHO, critical going forward, it's also possible to unify wire and wireless at other points in a network implementation, such as integrating a WLAN controller... READ MORE

GDC2013: Get a NASCAR race car tour and learn why drivers love online games

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SLIDESHOWS

Best tools for social media analytics

How to tell if your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn efforts are paying off.

JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES

As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity).

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MOST-READ STORIES

1. iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 29

2. Gartner predicts 3D printers will cost less than a PC by 2016

3. Victim of $440K wire fraud can't blame bank for loss, judge rules

9. More Apple iPhoneys: The iOS 7 edition

5. Avaya willing to share customers with Cisco, Microsoft

6. Cisco lays off 500 of workforce

7. iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending March 26

8. Cloud prices: How low can they go?

10. A visual history of Linux

4. First look: Juniper's core SDN switch

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