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	Facebook building a 100-gigabit switch to keep up with video, VR traffic Facebook is more than doubling the speed of its Wedge open-source network switch, which is good news both for Facebook users and for anyone who may want to build a 100-gigabit switch. Read More WHITE PAPER: Booz Allen Hamilton Modern Drug Commercialization Pharmaceutical companies struggle with optimizing commercialization efforts when bringing new drugs to market. By integrating data science and analytics in their strategies, companies can avoid common pitfalls, and maintain a sustainable lead and competitive advantage in the marketplace. Learn More In this Issue EMC helps VMAX, VNX storage arrays hook up with public clouds Why Apple keeps its distance from enterprise IT (and why it works) The US government wants in on the public cloud, but needs more transparency Windows 10 update deep dive: Big changes, minor tweaks, and early problems Geek-Themed Meme of the Week: email to text Replaying Ballmer's whacky Windows 1.0 ad and explaining 'except in Nebraska' INSIDER IT shops will pass the cloud tipping point in 2016, survey finds WHITE PAPER: Birst The Trouble with DIY Business Intelligence The need to increase flexibility and agility, along with the challenges of analyzing huge amounts of data for patterns and meaning, is outpacing the capabilities of traditional business intelligence platforms. Learn More EMC helps VMAX, VNX storage arrays hook up with public clouds Public clouds will be the next big spot for some enterprises to store data, and EMC wants to help them get there through its arrays.On Tuesday, the company introduced automatic tiering of data from its VMAX and VNX systems to public clouds including Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Platform. It's the latest extension of EMC software that can move data around based on how quickly an enterprise wants each application to respond.Organizations are starting to use public clouds for storage in order to cut costs and add capacity quickly. That could eat into EMC's traditional business of selling storage arrays that sit in a company's own data centers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Why Apple keeps its distance from enterprise IT (and why it works) Apple is never going to bend to the demands of today's enterprise. It doesn't have to, or even want to, and doing so might hamper its user experience. The company is, however, slowly approaching businesses from a relative distance, empowering new partners, such as Cisco and IBM, to fill in the enterprise gaps it wants to avoid.Apple doesn't do things differently just to be different. The company wants to maintain a unique balance in its enterprise strategy, one that allows it to sell devices at a massive scale, enable a robust ecosystem and a secure OS for developers and users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Pivotal Software The Realities of IoT Data Automated homes. Connected cars. Smart cities. The Internet of Things (IoT) will forever change the way businesses interact with consumers and other businesses. Learn More The US government wants in on the public cloud, but needs more transparency The U.S. federal government is trying to move more into the cloud, but service providers' lack of transparency is harming adoption, according to Arlette Hart, the FBI's chief information security officer. "There's a big piece of cloud that's the 'trust me' model of cloud computing," she said during an on-stage interview at the Structure conference in San Francisco Wednesday. That's a tough sell for organizations like the federal government that have to worry about protecting important data. While Hart said that the federal government wants to get at the "enormous value" in public cloud infrastructure, its interest in moving to public cloud infrastructure is also tied to a need for greater security. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Windows 10 update deep dive: Big changes, minor tweaks, and early problems Windows 10 has seen a serious amount of patching, but this newly released November Update is more than a patch, it's a significant upgrade almost on par with a Service Pack. That's rather unusual, as Microsoft tends to wait several months before issuing hefty updates. Up to now, Microsoft has been doing bug fixes. This update, build 10586, also brings new changes to the UI, adds some enterprise features, and updates Cortana and the Edge browser. So companies that still wait for Service Pack 1, here it is, even if it isn't labeled as such.So let's break down Threshold 2, or the November Update, or Service Pack 1, whatever you want to call it. Microsoft posted a list of new features for your perusal, or you can just read about it here.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. OpenStack for Enterprise: The Tipping Point Cometh This E-Book covers a brief history of the OpenStack cloud operating system, its releases and projects, significant enterprise adoptions, and the function and contributions VMTurbo have brought to the OpenStack ecosystem. Learn More Geek-Themed Meme of the Week: email to text The Advice Mallard has a good one for our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week collection, via Redditor chevyfried, who writes: "I use this lifehack for my security cameras that only have the ability to use email notifications." Read More Replaying Ballmer's whacky Windows 1.0 ad and explaining 'except in Nebraska' Microsoft Windows 1.0 turns 30 tomorrow. And even though Steve Ballmer's over-the-top TV ad for the operating system has seen its share of Internet airtime, I viewed it for the first time only this morning. Read More INSIDER IT shops will pass the cloud tipping point in 2016, survey finds Despite the persistence of security concerns, companies are moving a variety of IT and business operations to the cloud at a steady pace. Indeed, on average, IT leaders expect slightly more than half of their IT environment to be cloud-based by the end of 2016.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More
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