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	Preston Gralla: Free Surface RT tablets for schools: Should kids have to use what adults don't want? Microsoft's new "Bing for Schools" plan will give away Surface RT tablets to schools whose staff, children, and parents use an ad-free version of Bing. It sounds like a great idea -- but should schoolkids be using technology that parents and other adults have shown they don't want? Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Can You Benefit from Social CRM? Social tools and strategies are now crucial to building a successful CRM strategy. Learn how to take advantage of social CRM to improve business processes and enhance customer loyalty without a complete "rip-and-replace" of traditional CRM tools. Read Now In this Issue Darlene Storm: Manning sentenced to 35 years, more classified leaks on the way from Anonymous? Antone Gonsalves: Cybercrooks find ad networks and malware a profitable combo Vaughn Stewart: Are you ready for software-defined storage? Barbara Krasnoff: Making a Moto X? Be careful of your color choices. Jean-Loup Richet: 451 unavailable Sharky: The 0.1 percent solution WHITE PAPER: ReadSoft Taking BPO to the next level - 6 questions to consider Stay ahead of increasing competition in today's Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) market by boosting efficiency and service delivery with the right technology solution. Download this white paper for detailed insights that will guide you to stay efficient, flexible, and customer-focused. Learn More Darlene Storm: Manning sentenced to 35 years, more classified leaks on the way from Anonymous? Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, while absolutely nothing happens to those responsible for illegally spying on Americans. In fact, we learned that the NSA's surveillance system is capable of listening to 75% of U.S. Internet traffic. Meanwhile, the FBI feels confident that busting LulzSec has had a "huge deterrent effect" on other large-scale breaches by Anonymous AntiSec hackers. But after the crackdown on Manning and Edward Snowden, an Army officer and secret member of the hacking collective Anonymous says more leaks are on the way. Read More   Antone Gonsalves: Cybercrooks find ad networks and malware a profitable combo Cybercriminals have discovered that the perfect backdoor to a smartphone is the ad network bundled with mobile apps. Read More   Vaughn Stewart: Are you ready for software-defined storage?   The software-defined data center is one of the technology trends that's kicking the industry into its next evolutionary stage. It's rife with innovation and has the potential to dramatically increase IT's agility when delivering services to operations, development teams and application owners. This, my first post here at the Clouds, Flash and Big Data blog, is an introduction to the software-defined data center in general, and in particular how it relates to storage resources. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Plantronics, Inc. Making Voice a Successful Part of Your UC Rollout You've thought long and hard about the investment you're making in Unified Communications. We've compiled ten steps to streamline the audio aspect of your UC deployment. Putting an audio strategy in place now can help you plan, deploy and eventually drive higher adoption rates. Download our workbook now! Read Now! Barbara Krasnoff: Making a Moto X? Be careful of your color choices. While it's a nice idea to allow buyers to design their own phones -- and while I think that the Moto X may be one of the better, if not the best, consumer phones out there right now -- the process still has a couple of kinks to be ironed out. Read More   Jean-Loup Richet: 451 unavailable Read More   Sharky: The 0.1 percent solution This pilot fish has discovered that 99.9 percent of the time when user laptops can't connect, the cause is the anti-virus firewall. Jumping to that right away saves so much time in the troubleshooting process -- usually. Read More
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