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	Richi Jennings: Anonymous fights for 'rapist' Assange in #OpFreeAssange DDoS Anonymous has been nuking websites of those it disagrees with again. This time, it's British government sites, in protesting the treatment of Julian Assange. Facing allegations of rape in Sweden, the UK government want to extradite him, but he's claimed political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers expect them. Not to mention: Do not try this at home ... Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed VDI Performance: Conquer the Challenges, Reap the Benefits The centralization and management of branch environments through desktop virtualization as an ideal way to simplify global management and reduce costs, while ensuring better levels of security and compliance. However, remote office virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments often prove difficult to implement for a number of reasons. Learn more. In this Issue Sean Chai: Social and collaborative technologies are a compelling fit for health care Preston Gralla: Analyst expectations for Microsoft Surface and other Windows 8 tablets -- big-time sales Shark Tank: Let's think this through one more time RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Sean Chai: Social and collaborative technologies are a compelling fit for health care Social and collaborative technology has potentially deep ramifications for health care. So far there's limited data on how effective social media is at improving health quality. But the fundamental qualities that social technologies reinforce—immediacy, transparency, openness, and connectedness—could amplify the impact of that environments and behavior have been observed to have on health and wellness. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday Preston Gralla: Analyst expectations for Microsoft Surface and other Windows 8 tablets -- big-time sales If IDC is right, Windows 8 tablets will hit the market with a bang when they ship starting in October. IDC says that Microsoft will build more than 3 million Surface tablets in 2012. Add in results from other Windows 8 tablet manufacturers, and it could add up to big Windows 8 tablet sales. Read More Shark Tank: Let's think this through one more time This IT pilot fish is in the process of acquiring a server with RAID and redundant power supplies, and he's already gotten a satisfactory price quote and ordered. And then there's a problem: no redundant power supplies. Read More
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