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	VMware vSphere 5.5 bulks up with more muscle, high-availability VMware's latest salvo in its virtualization war with Microsoft is vSphere 5.5, which features a host of improvements, the most interesting being high availability, support for Big Data/Hadoop and improved storage and backup. Read More   WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks   The DDoS Threat Spectrum Bolstered by favorable economics, today's global botnets are using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to target firewalls, web services, and applications, often simultaneously. This DDoS threat spectrum includes conventional network attacks, HTTP and SSL floods, and an emerging wave of low-bandwidth threats. Learn more >> In this Issue Computerworld's holiday gift guide 2013: Stocking stuffers Apple ditches discounts, goes with gift cards for Black Friday sale Toshiba offers to buy failed SSD maker OCZ Sharky: Munch munch munch Fairphone to ship first green smartphones on Dec. 23 Why smartphone food photos look horrible The Grill: Intel CIO Kimberly Stevenson is working to deliver products faster and drive revenue Robert L. Mitchell: Road test part III: Google+ Hangouts WHITE PAPER: CDW Cloud Storage and Backup The proliferation of cloud computing options has begun to change the way storage is thought about, procured and used. IT managers and departments need to think through how cloud options might fit into and complement their onsite data infrastructures. Read Now Computerworld's holiday gift guide 2013: Stocking stuffers For all those friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances who deserve something cool to brighten their holiday season, we offer these suggestions -- all $25 and under. Read More   Apple ditches discounts, goes with gift cards for Black Friday sale Apple earlier today launched its annual Black Friday sale, but rather than directly discount hardware -- as it's done for years -- it offered gift cards of up to $150 with a purchase. Read More   Toshiba offers to buy failed SSD maker OCZ Toshiba has offered to buy the assets of OCZ Technology, a solid-state drive manufacturer on the verge of bankruptcy. Read More   Sharky: Munch munch munch Pilot fish is co-managing a call center for a university when he answers a call from one very distraught professor who can't get to his research on the local servers -- and the usual troubleshooting can't pinpoint the problem. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com   The Future of Sales Performance Management Learn how the future of sales performance management is integrated with CRM and social collaboration and how this will help managers provide real-time coaching and motivation in context to drive better sales behaviors and, ultimately, better sales results. Download now. Read now! Fairphone to ship first green smartphones on Dec. 23 Despite production problems, Dutch company Fairphone is getting ready to ship the first batch of its green smartphones, which have been developed with as much conflict-free materials as possible. Read More   Why smartphone food photos look horrible Martha Stewart wants to show you horrible pictures of nauseating-looking food for some reason. Mike Elgan finds this personally vexing. Read More   The Grill: Intel CIO Kimberly Stevenson is working to deliver products faster and drive revenue Kimberly Stevenson, corporate vice president and CIO at Intel, shares her ideas on running an IT department, the power of technology and the importance of technologists. Read More   Robert L. Mitchell: Road test part III: Google+ Hangouts Imagine going abroad and relying on Google+ Hangouts as your only technology for calling home. Would it work? I recently spent 10-days in the U.K. with a phone with no cell service, relying instead on a handful of mobile communication apps running over Wi-Fi, including Hangouts. Here's how I fared. Read More
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