Issue highlights 1. 10 programming languages to make a developer pull his or her hair out 2. OpenDaylight "Hydrogen" taking shape 3. Vampire mice and zombie hard drives: USB dangers lurk in Linux 4. Apple iOS 7: Six key things to do before you tap 'Download' 5. AT&T, Microsoft team to link business customers to Azure cloud 6. How to calculate the costs of solid state drives 7. Cloud computing's 'utility' model faces a surprising challenge 8. Snowden's role provided 'perfect cover' for NSA data theft 9. What's the Best Android Tablet? Google Nexus vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10. Apple issues internal high priority alert in light of iOS 7 download issues 11. INSIDER Is WAN Optimization Hardware Obsolete? 12. 12 lines the IT helpdesk hates to hear |
| RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco This special report offers an in-depth look at Software Defined Networking (SDN) fundamentals, including a piece that explores the promise and the limitations of SDN, another looking at the core building blocks, and an SDN FAQ. It also includes a discussion with an early user and 12 tips for SDN IT buyers. Read more now. |
| When developers discuss the programming languages they hate the most, these names tend to come up - a lot READ MORE |
| The OpenDaylight Project has announced new details on its SDN controller architecture, including the name of the first release scheduled for December: "Hydrogen." READ MORE |
| NEW ORLEANS - Linux kernel developer Sarah Sharp is searching for a solution to the problem posed by vampire mice, she said in a presentation at LinuxCon North America Wednesday afternoon. READ MORE |
| There are endless blogposts and debates on when and whether and how to update iOS 7 when it becomes available today, expected around 1 p,m. Eastern time. Here are some steps suggested by Mike Reed, a solutions engineer who works with enterprise customers for MobileIron, a mobile device management vendor. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: CDNetworks This white paper and FAQ provide a high level understanding of challenges to reaching China with your brand and the types of licenses needed to operate a website reaching consumers, businesses, and employees in China. Read now >> |
| AT&T is putting the finishing touches on a service that connects its corporate customers' VPNs to Microsoft Azure services, eliminating the need to find separate links between business sites and Microsoft's cloud. READ MORE |
| Many organizations are considering swapping out some of their Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for Solid State Drives (SSD) to increase I/O throughput and power density (IOPS/Watt). But how do you compare cost vs. performance to determine the best technology mix for specific application environments? READ MORE |
| For years now, advocates have been claiming that cloud computing would follow the path of power utilities, with the vast majority of customers choosing to buy the computing resources they need from some central utility rather than generate it themselves. That may still be true for cloud computing, but an article in today's Wall Street Journal suggests that the analogy is no longer a slam dunk. READ MORE |
| Fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden's role as a systems administrator provided easy access to classified NSA documents sitting in a file-sharing location on the spy agency's intranet portal. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: F5 IT organizations that shift to modern ADCs will improve application performance and security, streamline data center operations, and offload common functions from application development to the ADC infrastructure. These changes will bring positive benefits to both IT operations and internal and external users. Read more now |
| One of the best things about Google's Android OS is that it runs on a variety of different devices. So if you want an Android tablet, but a particular piece of hardware doesn't have a feature you want or need, you can keep looking until you find the device that's right for you. And there's certainly no shortage of Android tablet options. READ MORE |
| Ahead of the iPhone 5c and 5s launch, Apple earlier today made iOS 7 available for the masses. In typical Apple fashion, the OS update is backwards compatible and will even run on the iPhone 4, a device Apple launched three years ago. READ MORE |
| We recently received a copy of a Netex-commissioned white paper called "The Death of the WAN Optimization Hardware Appliance: R.I.P." The paper, by a firm curiously named Dragon Slayer Consulting, predicts that WAN optimization hardware will soon be as obsolete as the buggy whip because virtualized server appliances will render it moot. We believe this prediction is wrong. Here's why. READ MORE |
| These 12 questions and requests are guaranteed to draw groans from practically any IT pro in the world READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Good Technology Mobile Device Management (MDM) has ushered in on-the-go access to enterprise data, but that convenience has only whetted the appetite of enterprise users. View Now |
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