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	Jonny Evans: WWDC: Now it looks like Apple's going to take out the console market WWDC 2013: With the dust settling on the recent Xbox and PS4 launches, Apple appears to have its own plan for the console gaming market -- though it's keeping pretty quiet about it, particularly since these plans could reflect its intentions for an Apple television. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware 4 Reasons to Expand Virtualization of Your IT Environment In this eBook, find out how other VMware customers have extended their virtualization deployment and have uncovered significant benefits, such as simplified IT management and reallocation of resources. Read Now! In this Issue Preston Gralla: Acer passes on Windows Phone, complains "no one knows about it" Sharon Machlis: Does the government even need PRISM snooping? It's got Facebook JohnWThompson: The age of data: Strategies for response Steve Pate: Banking on the public cloud Sharky: If it wasn't important, IT wouldn't send it WHITE PAPER: Globanet Beyond Data Migration Best Practices When managing a migration, performance optimization is at the heart of the process. With millions (or even billions) of items to move, ensuring that you mitigate any expected environmental or configuration bottlenecks is essential. Read Now! Preston Gralla: Acer passes on Windows Phone, complains "no one knows about it" Some estimates show Windows Phone gradually gaining market share, but don't tell that to Acer, one of whose top executives says that the company won't be releasing a Windows Phone any time soon because "no one knows about it." Read More Sharon Machlis: Does the government even need PRISM snooping? It's got Facebook What you like and who you're connected to can tell a lot more than many people realize. Read More WEBCAST: Workday The Mobile Enterprise Today's mobile enterprise requires important data anywhere, anytime. And with mobile enterprise applications, IT needs to offer simple, easy-to-use apps that employees will embrace – without compromising security. View Now JohnWThompson: The age of data: Strategies for response The scale of data growth today is so massive it can be numbing. According to Gartner*, in the last minute there were 204 million emails sent, 61,000 hours of music listened to on Pandora, 20 million photo views and 3 million uploads to Flickr, 100,000 tweets, 6 million views and 277,000 Facebook logins, and 2 million plus Google searches. Every day, more iPhones are sold than babies born. Read More Steve Pate: Banking on the public cloud What do banks and the public cloud have in common? More than you might think. Let's use the concept of banking as we jump into the root of the public cloud debate. Read More Sharky: If it wasn't important, IT wouldn't send it This tech at a big bank gets a call from someone in Finance who's frantic because the "numbers report" is missing, Numbers report? "You know," user says, "that real big report we get each workday. I need to file it!" Read More
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