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	EMC confirms CEO change at VMware Paul Maritz will step down from his role as CEO of VMware, to be replaced by EMC Chief Operating Officer Pat Gelsinger, EMC confirmed on Tuesday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Webcast Demonstrates New Collaboration Advances An insightful webcast demonstrates how you can harness the power of people-centric collaboration in today's post-PC world. You'll learn about new collaboration tools and technologies and witness firsthand why they're making the experience more immersive and more mobile, in boardrooms, bistros, and everywhere in between. Watch the webcast today. See how these solutions make collaboration possible from iPads to boardrooms. And learn how they're enabling organizations to accelerate decisions, be more productive, and save countless dollars in the process. View the webcast and see for yourself. In this Issue Richi Jennings: EMC/VMware cloudy spinoff rumors (and Maritz is out) Preston Gralla: Five reasons you'll love Office 2013 Oracle announces its first scalable, entry-level tape library 10 Disaster Preparedness Questions to Ask Your Cloud Services Provider Symantec confirms blue-screening Windows XP PCs Hacker claims breach of 50,000 accounts from Wall Street IT recruiting firm Android malware steals location data from mobile devices Check Point plans to release document security software INSIDER Securing the new data center Preston Gralla: Why Microsoft Office 2013's cloud-based strategy falls short...and how to fix it Jonny Evans: Will OS X Mountain Lion be one of the last desktop operating systems Apple ships? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant remote support with LogMeIn Rescue With LogMeIn Rescue, you can start a support session in just 60 seconds. Connect 24/7 to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets. You'll get in, solve the problem and save the day without ever leaving your desk. Try it free today. Richi Jennings: EMC/VMware cloudy spinoff rumors (and Maritz is out) This is serious business: EMC (NYSE:EMC) and VMware (NYSE:VMW) are said to be spinning off their cloud computing assets into a new company. Those will include the Cloud Foundry PaaS, Greenplum, Chorus, DynamicOps, and the Project Rubicon IaaS, we're told. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it could be true. And Paul Martiz may be the guy to run it Read More Preston Gralla: Five reasons you'll love Office 2013 I've put Office 2013 through its paces, and can report that it's the best Office yet. Here's five reasons you'll want it. Read More Oracle announces its first scalable, entry-level tape library Oracle has released a new LTO-5 tape library that scales from 45TB to 900TB and can be installed and expanded by users themselves. Read More 10 Disaster Preparedness Questions to Ask Your Cloud Services Provider A typical cloud contract contains uptime clauses and credits for missed service levels, but it often fails to adequately protect the enterprise customer. Here are 10 questions the intelligent cloud customer can ask to make sure they are sheltered from potential disaster. Read More Symantec confirms blue-screening Windows XP PCs Symantec last week crippled a large number of Windows XP machines when it shipped customers a defective update to its antivirus software, the company acknowledged. Read More WHITE PAPER: Datawatch Bringing Big Data into your Analytics Strategy. Learn how Datawatch Information Optimization can eliminate your content blind spot by allowing you to get to all of your organization's data, so you may take action in improving your business. Learn more. Hacker claims breach of 50,000 accounts from Wall Street IT recruiting firm A hacker claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals seeking jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job applicants. Read More Android malware steals location data from mobile devices Symantec on Tuesday joined other vendors offering tools to stop such mobile malware with its own: Mobile Security for Android Read More Check Point plans to release document security software Check Point Software Technologies plans to introduce document security software that encrypts and controls access to files across an organization's various departments and also meets the growing need for corporate users to access company information on mobile devices, a company executive said. Read More INSIDER Securing the new data center It's hard enough to secure resources when they are bound to a physical box, but the game changes when servers are virtualized and start to move around, not only to other servers in the data center, but also to off-premise cloud facilities. Insider (registration required) Read More Preston Gralla: Why Microsoft Office 2013's cloud-based strategy falls short...and how to fix it Microsoft has been promoting Office 2013's cloud prowess, but the truth is, Office falls short when it comes to working with the cloud. Here's why, along with a free, easy way you can fix it yourself. Read More Jonny Evans: Will OS X Mountain Lion be one of the last desktop operating systems Apple ships? Let's think about OS X Mountain Lion and Apple's readiness to disrupt its own business models and consider this: "Will Mountain Lion be one of the last desktop operating systems Apple ships?" In a sense, I think it will. That's because I believe operating systems are heading inexorably into the cloud and here's why: Read More
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