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	Researcher misinterprets Oracle advisory, discloses unpatched database vulnerability Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and databases were published by a security researcher who erroneously thought that the company had patched the flaw. Read More WHITE PAPER: Imation Scalable Storage 7 Simple Truths About Tiering Your Data Dealing with the explosion of extreme data means more than containing it all. It's about determining what data is most useful to your business and where "speed meets need." Learn how you can use data tiering to transform unstructured data into "content" while keeping protection high and costs low. View Now In this Issue SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers Best practices for selecting storage services for Big Data Google Drive could be a boon -- and a headache -- for IT Can Dropbox, other cloud providers survive Google Drive? One in 10 second-hand hard drives in U.K. contain personal data How to build your first database with Microsoft Access TechHive: Hands on with Dropbox's new sharing features Box upgrades API to make it simpler, more powerful WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of "falsehoods." Read More Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud Amazon Web Services offer new challenges and flexibility for database admins -- here's how to avoid the pitfalls and tune for performance. Read More HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers Western Digital company HGST announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology. Read More Best practices for selecting storage services for Big Data Big data is fueling the need for ever-growing storage repositories. If you're looking to meet scalability concerns without breaking the bank, selecting a storage platform that can meet the needs of big data can be a challenge -- but it doesn't have to be an overwhelming one. Read More Google Drive could be a boon -- and a headache -- for IT With the launch of Google Drive, IT managers can look forward to a potential new productivity tool -- and some significant headaches, analysts say. Read More WHITE PAPER: Imation Scalable Storage A Scalable Approach To SMB Data Protection Now that data has become an indispensable asset to your business, you can't afford to ignore it. Learn why an Imation RDX solution is the perfect scalable solution for SMBs with limited resources. View Now Can Dropbox, other cloud providers survive Google Drive? The 800-pound gorilla has landed and is leveraging its existing relationship with hundreds of millions of users to port them to their cloud storage and file sharing service Google Drive. Can smaller cloud storage players survive this assault? Read More One in 10 second-hand hard drives in U.K. contain personal data Britain's Information Commissioner's Office has discovered that more than one in every ten second-hand hard drives contains recoverable personal information of the original owner. Read More How to build your first database with Microsoft Access If you own a version of Microsoft Office that includes Access (Office Professional 2010 is the most current version), but you've never used it, you're overlooking a powerful tool for organizing and analyzing business data. I'll show you how to make the most of this relational database program. Read More TechHive: Hands on with Dropbox's new sharing features Despite many competitors, Dropbox is the de facto standard for syncing files across one's own computers and sharing them with others. New features extend Dropbox's reach substantially by making it possible to create a public, revokable link to any file or folder in a Dropbox sync folder. Read More Box upgrades API to make it simpler, more powerful Box has given its API a makeover so that developers will have an easier time building and integrating applications with its software, and have those applications do more than is currently possible. Read More
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