Google's 14 biggest hits and misses of 2014

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	Google's 14 biggest hits and misses of 2014   A tech company as big as Google is bound to do some amazing things every year, but it's also not immune to failure. Let's look back at where the search giant went right and wrong in 2014. Read More   : Venafi Securing Keys and Certificates to Critical Assets Today's most devastating cyber attacks—including ShellShock, Heartbleed and Zombie Zero—prey on trust. And that puts your digital certificates at risk. This informative resource center explores how next-generation trust protection can help you combat today's attacks, ensuring trusted access to critical assets. Learn More In this Issue SDN in 2014: A year of non-stop action Holiday blues: 49% of network managers, sysadmins expect to work the holidays Cisco's greatest hits, 2014 edition Misfortune Cookie vulnerability affects 12 million routers Sky's the limit for Cisco Intercloud INSIDER Review: Salesforce has the right stuff for mobile development Hotel group asks FCC for permission to block some outside Wi-Fi Organized criminals targeting individual iPhone, Android users Google tops Glassdoor's best places to work; F5 outranks Facebook, Qualcomm, Apple WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks   Mitigating Multiple DDoS Attack Vectors Security professionals need to understand how to plug the security gap from Layers 3 to 7, and protect against multi-layer attacks, with a full proxy security architecture. It's time to rethink and refine the enterprise security architecture, so organizations can remain agile and resilient against future threats. Learn more >> SDN in 2014: A year of non-stop action The past year was a frantic one in the SDN industry as many players made strategic and tactical moves to either get out ahead of the curve on software-defined networking, or try to offset its momentum.Here's a rundown of what transpired in 2014 as a place setter for the year ahead in SDN. Read More   Holiday blues: 49% of network managers, sysadmins expect to work the holidays Nearly half of IT pros will be working or on-call over the holidays to troubleshoot network, security and app problems, according to a survey by net management vendor Ipswitch. Read More   Cisco's greatest hits, 2014 edition A fun-filled year for CiscoIt started with TV in the cloud and ended with a lawsuit against a rival. Cisco's 30th anniversary was filled with major events that shaped the year ahead. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Enterprise-Ready Sync From Day 1 There's no doubt consumer-grade sync and share solutions are convenient, but it's the risk they introduce to the enterprise that keeps IT leaders up at night. Learn More Misfortune Cookie vulnerability affects 12 million routers A newly-discovered vulnerability puts 12 million routers at risk around the world in homes, small business, and corporate environments. Read More   Sky's the limit for Cisco Intercloud By 2018, 78% of all workloads will be in the cloud, according to Cisco. Seventy percent of those workloads will be private cloud-related, cloud traffic will quadruple between now and then, and SaaS is and will remain the most popular service model. Read More     INSIDER Review: Salesforce has the right stuff for mobile development Salesforce.com started as a cloud service for sales force automation. The company added a cloud-based development platform, Force.com, with a Java-like language (APEX), and went on to acquire the Heroku PaaS and a number of other services. Read More   WHITE PAPER: PC Connection | EMC Optimal Path to the Cloud Find out what IDC says about Selecting the Optimal Path to Private Cloud in this analyst white paper. Learn the challenges and benefits of various cloud paths: prebuilt or integrated infrastructure systems such as VCE Vblock, reference architectures such as EMC's VSPEX, and traditional or "build your own" systems. View Now Hotel group asks FCC for permission to block some outside Wi-Fi The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will soon decide whether to lay down rules regarding hotels' ability to block personal Wi-Fi hotspots inside their buildings, a practice that recently earned Marriott International a US $600,000 fine. Read More   Organized criminals targeting individual iPhone, Android users A well organized criminal group is targeting both iOS and Android users with highly targeted man-in-the-middle attacks, according to a new threat advisory from Akamai Technologies Read More   Google tops Glassdoor's best places to work; F5 outranks Facebook, Qualcomm, Apple Google is No. 1 among employees, according to Glassdoor's seventh annual Employees' Choice Awards. Read More
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