What IT needs to know about near-field communications

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	INSIDER What IT needs to know about near-field communications The rise of near-field communications (NFC) has been part of the discussion in the mobile industry for years. Unfortunately, the technology hasn't generated much more than discussion to this point. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: QLogic Corporation Captive vs Shared SSD – best SAN choice? Clustered apps/virtual servers waiting on storage I/O? Overprovisioning HDDs for performance breaking the budget? Existing SAN storage not keeping up with critical application performance demands? Concerned SSD acceleration solutions will disrupt your SAN architecture? Want non-disruptive SSD integration w/existing software and SAN infrastructure? QLogic's Mt. Rainier Adapter seamlessly integrates Fibre Channel HBA, SSD and caching intelligence. Join the Product Evaluation Program or sign up for a Briefing and learn how to supercharge your existing SAN with transparent shared SSD caching! In this Issue Cisco to sell Linksys home networking business to Belkin Martin Gomberg: The answer to gun violence might just be a smartphone on a chip Review: AT&T MiFi Liberate mobile hotspot After selling Linksys, Cisco aims to reach consumers through carriers UPnP flaws expose tens of millions of networked devices to remote attacks, researchers say Cisco Catalyst marries wired, wireless and SDN in one switch Unseen, all-out cyber war on the U.S. has begun Anonymous hits US government site, threatens release of secrets INSIDER How to manage big data overload Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from VCE Sharky: And when we say urgent, we mean... RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cloudera Get Certified in Apache Hadoop. Learn with Cloudera! Cloudera University is the world's leading provider of Apache Hadoop training and certification . Get job-specific training for Hadoop administrators and developers, as well as in-depth coverage of other Apache projects such as HBase, Hive and Pig. Check out the free online tutorials or sign up for a live training class near you, by visiting university.cloudera.com/. Cisco to sell Linksys home networking business to Belkin Cisco Systems plans to sell its Linksys home networking business to Belkin International for an undisclosed sum under an agreement that includes cooperation between the companies on software, service-provider products and other areas. Read More Martin Gomberg: The answer to gun violence might just be a smartphone on a chip There is a role for technology in gun safety. This is not the forum to discuss the politics, morality or civility of the question of guns or to weigh in for or against. It is however relevant that there are technologies available that will reduce gun violence today. What is needed are some prudent steps, transformational thinking and innovation in our approach to safety. Perhaps unexpectedly it is the most ubiquitous of technologies available today, the smartphone, that may offer a potential answer, or at least a direction, that may both satisfy the gun owner and provide safety to our communities and our public safety responders, if not today, in a not too distant tomorrow. Read More Review: AT&T MiFi Liberate mobile hotspot Shaw reviews AT&T's Mobile Hotspot MiFi Liberate. Read More After selling Linksys, Cisco aims to reach consumers through carriers Cisco Systems' sale of its home networking business to Belkin International marks the end of a 10-year odyssey through the world of consumer products, but the company plans to keep reaching consumers through their carriers and cable companies. Read More UPnP flaws expose tens of millions of networked devices to remote attacks, researchers say Tens of millions of network-enabled devices including routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras, smart TVs and more can be attacked over the Internet because of dangerous flaws in their implementation of the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) protocol standard, security researchers from Rapid7 said Tuesday in a research paper. Read More WHITE PAPER: Verizon M2M and the Cloud: Business Proceed with Caution Machine-to-Machine services are gaining momentum as an efficient way to collect and analyze data from wired and wireless systems across the enterprise. In a Computerworld Quick Pulse survey, more than half of respondents said cloud-based M2M storage would reduce the burden on IT staff Learn More Cisco Catalyst marries wired, wireless and SDN in one switch Cisco this week unveiled a new Catalyst switch and WLAN controller designed to converge wired and wireless networks and centralize management of both environments. Read More Unseen, all-out cyber war on the U.S. has begun Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet Read More Anonymous hits US government site, threatens release of secrets Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a U.S. government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1,340 word text detailing its frustrations with the way the American legal system works and a threat to release "secrets" gathered from U.S. government websites. Read More INSIDER How to manage big data overload The nuts and bolts of systems designed for storing petabytes (and more) of data that can be easily accessed and analyzed are more complex than the inner workings of your average storage platform. Here's how to handle the data deluge. Read More Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from VCE Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach. Read More Sharky: And when we say urgent, we mean... This public library provides a particular model of netbooks for patrons to use while they're in a library branch, but occasionall the wireless network card driver crashes -- a real annoyance for patrons and librarians. Read More
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