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	EMC optimizes VNX hybrid array for flash EMC's VNX hybrid storage line is now built for flash first, with revamped software that can take full advantage of multicore processors, producing what the company calls a major boost in performance. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Application Performance Management for Dummies Application performance management helps deliver the application performance users and the business demand. Effectively monitoring and troubleshooting application performance issues requires a comprehensive solution. View now>> In this Issue INSIDER Using private clouds for all the right reasons Update: Hynix plant fire leaves memory shipments on hold NAND flash prices are sliding on low demand Larry Freeman: 3 things you need to know to save your IT job: #2 Software-defined data center Amazon hiring 'top secret' IT staff as it fights for CIA work 11 things Microsoft is actually doing right NSA-resistant Android application 'burns' sensitive messages JohnWThompson: TAP into the light WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Make Backups Reliable, Available, and Secure Recent surveys have shown that almost half of today's data centers are using the same backup system architecture that was all the rage 20 years ago. The other half are using disk in some fashion. This Deep Dive will explain the evolving role of disk and tape, as well as how they can work together to bring you the best of both worlds. View now >>   INSIDER Using private clouds for all the right reasons Here's why some customers are adopting the technology and which vendors they turned to for help. Read More   Update: Hynix plant fire leaves memory shipments on hold The Korean press reports that a fire in Hynix's fabrication plants 1 and 2 in China may put DRAM shipments on hold for the foreseeable future. Hynix is responsible for about 30% of the world's DRAM production. Read More   NAND flash prices are sliding on low demand NAND flash prices slipped 5% to 10% in the second half of August, and prices are expected to continue to slide in the fourth quarter of 2013. Read More   Larry Freeman: 3 things you need to know to save your IT job: #2 Software-defined data center Do you have an IT job involving enterprise data? More importantly, do you want to keep it? In Part 1 of this series, I covered the mega-shift to cloud computing, which has begun to reshape IT. The second trend has received little media attention but is no less profound. This is the mega-shift from human management to software automation occurring within the walls of IT. This is the story of the software-defined data center (SDDC). Read More   WHITE PAPER: VMware People and Processes: Keys to IT as a Service Success IT as a service (ITaaS) provides a unique opportunity for IT and line-of-business leaders to realign to transform business. Over the past decade, IT organizations have worked hard to reduce delivery time and costs through automation and commoditization. Advances in virtualization and cloud computing have helped bring IT to this major inflection point, but business and IT transformation also require organizational transformation. Amazon hiring 'top secret' IT staff as it fights for CIA work The U.S. isn't doing a good job keeping secrets. Think Edward Snowden. But demand for trustworthy IT professionals is strong, especially if they want to work for Amazon Web Services. Read More   11 things Microsoft is actually doing right From Office to Hyper-V to Azure, the much-maligned 'dying dinosaur' has a lot going for it as the Ballmer era winds down. Read More   NSA-resistant Android application 'burns' sensitive messages Silent Circle, a company specializing in encrypted communications, released a messaging application for Android devices on Wednesday that encrypts and securely erases messages and files. Read More   JohnWThompson: TAP into the light Deploying TAPs in the optical networks of the modern data center is a topic of heated debate. TAPs have been common in the TCP/IP world for more than a decade, where they are deployed to provide network access to packet brokers, intrusion detection and security solutions, and performance management solutions. Although their use is recognized as a best practice by industry leaders and analysts alike, the full understanding of the benefits that TAPs enable has not yet reached the same level of maturity it has in the broader networking world. Read More
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