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	Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two physical disks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Meeting Network Video Delivery Requirements Businesses are increasingly relying on video to inform, educate and inspire, but video can overwhelm even the most robust networks. Video optimization ensures your infrastructure is able to support all multimedia demands by offloading media servers and delivering a high-quality user experience. Read now! In this Issue Preston Gralla: Microsoft's iOS and Android app blitz bodes well for its future Steven J. Vaughan Nichols: Microsoft is finally making good products -- but it's too late Microsoft scraps 'Where's my phone update?' site Sweden's Tobii shows 'gaze control' on Windows 8 PC Richi Jennings: ''Bye Nokia,'' Microsoft's gonna buy Nokia Preston Gralla: Credit Suisse -- 2012 will be a breakout year for Windows Phone 7 Preston Gralla: Why Google, not Microsoft, should buy the Nook business from Barnes & Noble WEBCAST: Akamai Video: Securing the Cloud in a Hyperconnected World This whiteboard presentation covers strategic IT security initiatives within the enterprise and explains how the Akamai Intelligent Platform provides an unmatched level of defense against website, application, and data security attacks. Learn more Preston Gralla: Microsoft's iOS and Android app blitz bodes well for its future Microsoft is facing the cold fact that its own mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, has a very tiny base. Read More Steven J. Vaughan Nichols: Microsoft is finally making good products -- but it's too late Now that the company is finally making good server and desktop operating systems, we're moving to the cloud, smartphones and tablets. Read More Microsoft scraps 'Where's my phone update?' site Microsoft disappointed some Windows Phone users on Friday by saying it would stop providing specifics about who will get software updates and when, and announcing vaguely that a new update is "available to all carriers that request it." Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum 8 Dedupe Features to Avoid When considering adding deduplication software to your existing storage strategy, there needs to be a balancing act between optimizing for performance, optimizing for capacity, and avoiding performance bottlenecks. This independent white paper offers guidance on evaluating deduplication solutions and includes the 8 top dedupe "features" to avoid. Read More Sweden's Tobii shows 'gaze control' on Windows 8 PC We've had gesture control with Microsoft Kinect. Now get ready for gaze control. Swedish firm Tobii is at the Consumer Electronics Show this week to promote the use of its eye tracking technology in PCs and tablets, though it could be a couple of years before it's ready for mainstream use. Read More Richi Jennings: ''Bye Nokia,'' Microsoft's gonna buy Nokia We're told by those in the know that Microsoft is in talks to buy Nokia, or at least buy its smartphone division. The well-sourced rumor has the two sides meeting in Las Vegas this week, to thrash out a deal. Let's dissect it and see if it has legs, in The Long View INSIDER (free registration requested)   Read More Preston Gralla: Credit Suisse -- 2012 will be a breakout year for Windows Phone 7 There's more evidence that 2012 may prove to be the year that Windows Phone finally breaks out: A Credit Suisse analyst today said that the platform will become the third major smartphone platform, with high growth this year.   Read More Preston Gralla: Why Google, not Microsoft, should buy the Nook business from Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble may be shopping its successful Nook business around not because the ereader is in trouble, but because it's become such a whopping success. Two potential suitors include Google and Microsoft -- and Google is clearly the better choice.   Read More
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