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	Non-volatile memory's future is in software Specification efforts by the bigiwgs of the server, storage and software industry will soon allow OSes and applications to recognize and take full advantage of new non-volatile memory. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Cloud Solutions for BC/DR Leverage the cloud to meet business continuity and disaster recovery challenges. CA ARCserve offers a full range of products, from bare-metal restore to full automatic failover for high availability, with options to deploy on-premise, off-premise, or in the cloud. Learn More In this Issue Apple announces hybrid drive technology in Macs Peter Eicher: How big is your big data? 15 hot Windows 8 hybrid notebooks and tablets Sharky: Oops! Google, Microsoft and Yahoo fix serious email weakness RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Apple announces hybrid drive technology in Macs Apple announced it will be including hybrid drive technology in its new iMac and Mac mini desktops, which will offer flash-like performance with up to 3TB of hard drive capacity. Read More Peter Eicher: How big is your big data?   I mentioned last time that I would be talking about snapshots and data protection. And so I shall! But snapshots cover a lot of ground, and I prefer to focus on particular aspects of them, rather than painting a high-level story that many are familiar with. But let's at least establish some groundwork. Snapshots are effective for data protection because they are fast and allow you to capture and restore data quickly. They also let you deal with very large amounts of data.  In fact, they may be the only way to do so. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Top 10 Reasons to Consider Hosted Collaboration Solutions See why ROI potential has made unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) a top IT priority. Learn how cloud-based UC&C can boost productivity, overcome skill-set gaps, and lower TCO up to 40% with real-time, global deployment. Read Now 15 hot Windows 8 hybrid notebooks and tablets If you ever wanted to a touch-enabled laptop, there's never been a better time to buy Read More Sharky: Oops! This manager pilot fish is responsible for his company's EDI server -- the one that processes all e-paperwork from all its customers and suppliers -- and he notices a drive that should probably be replaced. Simple, right? Read More Google, Microsoft and Yahoo fix serious email weakness Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have remedied a cryptographic weakness in their email systems that could allow an attacker to create a spoofed message that passes a mathematical security verification. Read More
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