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	Richi Jennings: Moto G release date: Merry Christmas (not happy new year) Dennis Woodside channels Gomer Pyle. Is the Moto G a stocking stuffer? Motorola (NASDAQ:GOOG) surprised the world by announcing that its affordable and well-reviewed Moto G smartphone is now available for purchase in the U.S. Originally, the phone wasn't supposed to be available for American consumers until January. But in an act resembling St. Nick, Motorola shimmied down the chimney with a December delivery date. For good boys and girls, the Moto G can be purchased with no contract and unlocked bootloader; sure to bring visions of sweet hacking to phone and software modding communities. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers shout joyful news like the town criers of a Dickens novel. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CX, Inc. Consumer Cloud Solution: White Label or Build? Lifestyle standards are changing at an accelerating speed. Global businesses need to keep up with the pace to remain players in their industry. The adoption of the cloud is no longer a choice but a means for survival. Learn More. In this Issue Sharon Machlis: Is Python really supplanting R for data work? Jonny Evans: The 8 best Apple books you can read today Preston Gralla: Microsoft must kill Windows RT to survive in mobile, says analyst John Martin: When it comes to storage, cache is king Sharky: No good deed goes unpunished, government edition WEBCAST: VMware Address the Challenges in Your Data Center Virtualization has delivered value to IT teams of all sizes by helping to optimize server resources, simplify management, improve availability and drive down cost. While the benefits from server virtualization have been significant, challenges in the datacenter beyond the server still exist. Learn more! Sharon Machlis: Is Python really supplanting R for data work? After years of chortling at those who could get worked up enough to launch flame wars like Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux or iOS vs. Android, I seem to be engaged in one of my own. All I wanted was some data.... Read More   Jonny Evans: The 8 best Apple books you can read today Looking for something interesting to read this Thanksgiving? Why not browse this selection of the best Apple history books you can read right now -- if you never, ever read any other books about the company, you should read these: Read More   WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com   5 Secrets: Build your Sales Pipeline and Keep It Growing The typical strategy for meeting sales targets is to set aggressive individual rep quotas, rely on your top reps to achieve them, and then hope to get enough from the rest of your team to get over the top. Read now! Preston Gralla: Microsoft must kill Windows RT to survive in mobile, says analyst If Microsoft is going to ride the boom in tablets it needs to reduce the number of its Windows-related operating systems, says the analyst firm Canalys. If you read between the lines, though, that's just a polite way of saying Windows RT must die. Read More   John Martin: When it comes to storage, cache is king "Tape is Dead, Disk is Tape, Flash is Disk, RAM Locality is King." So said the late Jim Gray of Microsoft Research, in 2006. While tape never really died, a new wave of vendors have picked-up his original theme, predicting that flash storage is on the verge of replacing traditional disks. Yet, attractive as the idea of replacing all your spinning disk with flash or solid state may be, unless you're making uberdollars from real-time currency trading, it's just too expensive to consider a wholesale swap-out of an entire disk-based enterprise data infrastructure. Read More   Sharky: No good deed goes unpunished, government edition This state agency depends on a commercial application that this IT pilot fish is responsible for managing. And upgrades are handled under a support contract -- at least until the recession and the huge budget crisis it brings. Read More
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