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	Amazon enters smartphone market with 'Fire' Amazon unveiled its highly anticipated entry into the smartphone market Wednesday, a handset called "Fire." Read More   WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation   Why Customers Deploy a Flash 1st Strategy on EMC VNX Storage Read why with a FLASH 1st strategy, customers don't need to compromise between performance and TCO. Learn More In this Issue Apple won't fear Amazon's Fire Phone Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Does HP have a development pipeline or a pipe dream? NetApp unveils all-flash shared storage array New, cheaper iMac looks like DIY nightmare BlackBerry sales tumble 70%; smartphome maker ekes out profit The real 'fire' in Amazon's smartphone? A shopping spree Intel expands custom chip work for big cloud providers Amazon speeds up its cloud with SSD block storage Report: Oracle in talks to buy hospitality tech vendor Micros for more than $5 billion Unisys replacing decades-old mainframe processor with x86 chips New chips give Bing a performance boost Hacked Synology NAS systems used in big-profit cryptocurrency mining scheme WHITE PAPER: SolarWinds A Guide for Resource-Constrained Security Departments Organizations of all sizes can realize the benefits of SIEM, but only by selecting the approach and the product that is best suited to their needs. When looking at a SIEM implementation, the license cost can be just the tip of the iceberg. Learn More Apple won't fear Amazon's Fire Phone No one at Apple's headquarters will be losing sleep over whether the new Amazon Fire will snatch market share from the iPhone, analysts said. Read More   Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Does HP have a development pipeline or a pipe dream? HP claims that its light-based, next-generation Machine will do everything except scrub the kitchen sink. But given HP's recent innovation track record, why should we believe any of it? Read More   NetApp unveils all-flash shared storage array Growing demand for flash continues to rock enterprise storage, with NetApp becoming the latest big vendor to shape a new product around the high-speed media. Read More   New, cheaper iMac looks like DIY nightmare Apple's new iMac may be less expensive than its siblings, but that came at a price, a reseller said Wednesday: Do-it-yourselfers won't be able to upgrade the stock 8GB of memory in the new all-in-one. Read More   BlackBerry sales tumble 70%; smartphome maker ekes out profit BlackBerry managed to turn the tide toward a small profit during its fiscal first quarter, but revenue and phone sales continued to drop. Read More   The real 'fire' in Amazon's smartphone? A shopping spree   You'd be forgiven for thinking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wants to compete with other phone makers with his company's new Fire smartphone. But forget the multiple cameras and pretty 3-D-like effects, the device is really about selling more stuff. Read More   WHITE PAPER: HGST Accelerating Oracle with Preferred Reads This article shows how the Virident | HGST FlashMAX II card can be used to gain read Flash performance in an ASM cluster, while keeping a copy of the data in the existin SAN storage array. View Now>> Intel expands custom chip work for big cloud providers   Intel is stepping up its efforts to build custom chips for online giants like eBay and Facebook, giving them a boost in performance and, Intel hopes, another reason to keep buying its microprocessors. Read More   Amazon speeds up its cloud with SSD block storage Amazon Web Services has launched a new general purpose Elastic Block Store that runs fully on solid state drives, which the leading IaaS cloud vendor says will provide dramatically better performance for users compared to previous-generation spinning disk persistent storage. Read More   Report: Oracle in talks to buy hospitality tech vendor Micros for more than $5 billion Oracle is reportedly close to buying hospitality and retail technology vendor Micros Systems for more than US$5 billion in a deal that would be its biggest since the purchase of Sun Microsystems several years ago. Read More   Unisys replacing decades-old mainframe processor with x86 chips , Read More   New chips give Bing a performance boost Microsoft is planning to use programmable chips to boost the performance of the servers for its Bing search engine, by accelerating certain services using these devices. Read More   Hacked Synology NAS systems used in big-profit cryptocurrency mining scheme A hacker exploited publicly known vulnerabilities to install malware on NAS systems made by Synology and used their computing power to generate Dogecoins, a type of cryptocurrency. Read More
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