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	New Windows worm spreads by attacking weak passwords A new Windows worm is working its way through company networks by taking advantage of weak passwords, security researchers said over the weekend. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective CIO Perspectives Chicago CIO Perspectives is coming to Chicago on September 14, 2011. Join your fellow Chicago senior IT executives to discuss the latest strategies and technologies affecting organizations today. This is your best opportunity of 2011 to gain important insight on your most pressing IT and business issues. Register today! In this Issue Microsoft 'ribbonizes' Windows 8 file manager Irene takes out cell towers, disrupts communications Facebook shuts down Deals, boosts Photos RAM pricing plunge is imminent, analyst says Peer-to-peer, wireless network could help in disasters From CIO.com: Why You Shouldn't Buy a Discounted TouchPad Tablet Red Cross comm team ready for disasters Happy fifth birthday, cloud computing Dell set to launch public cloud service Microsoft wants TPC-E metric to measure database availability VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres Cisco buys Microsoft Office collaboration company Preston Gralla: Microsoft takes off the kids glove in the battle for the cloud WHITE PAPER: Quantum Expert Guide to Getting Deduplication Right This Computerworld eGuide delivers expert advice on the latest trends and technologies in data deduplication to improve backup efficiency. Learn how to enhance recovery, the pros and cons of D2D2T and CDP, backup strategies for virtual servers, and more. Read More Microsoft 'ribbonizes' Windows 8 file manager Microsoft Monday said it will "ribbonize" the file manager in next year's Windows 8, adding Explorer to the short list of integrated applications that already sport the interface in Windows 7. Read More Irene takes out cell towers, disrupts communications Communications networks took a hit from Hurricane Irene, as 1,400 cell towers and cell sites were damaged or disrupted -- mainly in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina, the FCC said Monday. Read More Facebook shuts down Deals, boosts Photos Facebook has decided to shut down its Deals feature after testing it for several months with big name brands like Gap, Starbucks, Macy's, JCPenney and American Eagle Outfitters. Read More RAM pricing plunge is imminent, analyst says The price of DDR3 memory used in laptops, desktops and servers will drop over the next two months as memory companies try to clear out excess inventory in a slowing PC market, IHS iSuppli said on Monday. Read More Peer-to-peer, wireless network could help in disasters A Georgia Tech professor envisions greater reliance on device-to-device communications using typical consumer phones after a disaster. Read More From CIO.com: Why You Shouldn't Buy a Discounted TouchPad Tablet Thinking of picking up one of HP's webOS-powered TouchPad tablets now that the price of the 16GB version has been cut significantly to a cool $100? CIO.com's Al Sacco warns that you should think twice before handing over your hard-earned cash. Here's why. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. Red Cross comm team ready for disasters While most businesses back up data and records as potential disasters approach, the American Red Cross has a communications and information systems infrastructure built to bring key data into areas ravaged by storms like Hurricane Irene. Read More Happy fifth birthday, cloud computing Dell's unveiling of a cloud infrastructure today comes five years to the month after Amazon announced its Elastic Compute Cloud beta, which may well have been the first service to call itself a cloud. Read More Dell set to launch public cloud service Dell will launch its first cloud infrastructure service later this year through a partnership with VMware, continuing its push to move beyond PCs and into higher-margin software and services. Read More Microsoft wants TPC-E metric to measure database availability The Transaction Processing Performance Council should add an additional metric for availability to its set of database performance benchmarks, Microsoft researchers plan to argue at the upcoming TPC conference, being held this week in Seattle. Read More VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday. Read More Cisco buys Microsoft Office collaboration company Cisco announced that it has acquired privately held Versly, a maker of collaboration software for Microsoft Office applications. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft takes off the kids glove in the battle for the cloud Microsoft showed today just how serious it is about dominating cloud services, paying companies $150 per seat to switch to its cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and launching a cutting, tongue-in-cheek video ad targeting VMWare's virtualization tools. INSIDER (free registration requested) Read More
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