Friday, February 17, 2012

Slashdot Newsletter 2012-02-17

 
 
The Evolution of Legacy Network Infrastructure
The promise of the next-generation network is great-the seamless delivery of media-rich content, virtualization, mobility, and cloud computing. Migrating legacy infrastructures to achieve the high-performance you organization requires, takes time and strategic planning. This SlashGuide tracks the evolution of the enterprise network infrastructure to a high-performance next-generation network, from data center to edge. Topics covered include IPV4, IPV6, flexible network architecture, cloud computing, multi-vendor network management, mobility, unified communications, network convergence, and more. This report includes an executive overview of all the major trends in the next-generation marketplace, along with a qualitative look at the technologies likely to transform business communications in the next few years. If you manage the network strategy for your organization, you cannot afford to miss this exclusive report. 
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IBM Innovations in Business Analytics Virtual Launch - Wednesday, March 7, 2012
This is your chance to learn how the IBM portfolio of Business Analytics solutions, including the new IBM Cognos Insight, can empower you and everyone in your organization to assemble and analyze information, align decision-making and drive fact-based action - without asking IT to give up necessary control of technology or data. Be among the first to find out how. Attend the IBM Innovations in Business Analytics Virtual Event. 
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From the Department of mostly-it's-because-of-tax-benefits
kkleiner writes "Average life expectancy has nearly doubled in developed countries over the 20th century. But a puzzling part to the equation has emerged. While humans are in fact living longer lives on average, the oldest age that the oldest...
 
From the Department of more-bricks-for-the-garden-wall
adeelarshad82 writes "Earlier today Apple announced their next OS, Mountain Lion. According to an early look, OS X 10.8 does more to integrate social networking and file-synching into a personal computer than any other OS. It tightly integrates...
 
From the Department of subtractitall-oddly-much-less-popular
pigrabbitbear writes "To prevent hoarding of materials and their potential for theft and illicit use, the Drug Enforcement Agency sets quotas for the chemical precursors to drugs like Adderall. The DEA projects the need for amphetamine salts, then...
 
From the Department of i'm-tired
Hugh Pickens writes "Millions of Americans don't engage in much exercise, if they complete any at all and asked why, a majority of respondents, in survey after survey, say, 'I don't have time.' Now Gretchen Reynolds reports that instead of...
 
From the Department of don't-forget-your-malware
An anonymous reader writes "I am a long time Slashdotter and currently find myself in the beginning of a divorce process. How have you dealt with dispersing of shared data, accounts and things online in such a situation? Domains, hosting, email,...
 
From the Department of best-of-the-worst
First time accepted submitter srs5694 writes "In light of the recent flood of stories about abysmal labor practices at Foxconn and other Chinese factories that produce most of the tech products we consume, the question arises: Who makes...
 
From the Department of coulda-told-you-that
An anonymous reader writes "While doctors routinely prescribe antibiotics to treat sinus infections, researchers on Tuesday revealed that amoxicillin, the most commonly prescribed medication for nasal cavity inflammation and sinuses, was just as...
 
From the Department of no-books-for-you
Ralph Spoilsport writes "A coalition of 17 publishing companies has shut down library.nu and ifile.it, charging them with pirating ebooks. This comes less than a month after megaupload was shut down, and SOPA was stopped. If the busting of...
 
From the Department of claiming-the-prize
snydeq writes "Advice Line's Bob Lewis sees ripe opportunity for Microsoft in the tablet market: Forget about outdoing Apple's iPad and give us the features that finally improve the way we work. 'The game isn't beating Apple at its own game. The...
 
From the Department of everything-counts-in-large-amounts
Lucas123 writes "A new study by the University of California and Microsoft shows that NAND flash memory experiences significant performance degradation as die sizes shrink in size. Over the next dozen years latency will double as the circuitry...
 
From the Department of yeah-well-that's-just-like-your-opinion-man
swandives writes "WebOS could be an important player in the long run as an open-source mobile OS, because Android could become closed source with Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said during a speech at the...
 
From the Department of now-where-was-I
First time accepted submitter brad-x writes "A new team of developers has recently picked up development of WindowMaker, and they've added many new features, including improved support for the freedesktop standard menu layout and Mac OS X style...
 
From the Department of photonic-release
First time accepted submitter Hotawa Hawk-eye writes "Tor Books has announced that the release date for the final volume in the Wheel of Time series of books, A Memory Of Light, will be January 8, 2013. [Barring a Mayan apocalypse, of course.] The...
 
From the Department of perfect-certainty-isn't-an-option
ananyo writes with this snippet from Nature (for which this earlier Nature article is also background): "'The courthouse in L'Aquila, Italy, yesterday hosted a highly anticipated hearing in the trial of six seismologists and one government...
 
From the Department of all-due-credit
itwbennett writes "451 Group analyst Jay Lyman opined in a LinuxInsider column that because of open APIs, 'non-open source software is often open enough.' Not so, says ITworld blogger Brian Proffitt. Sure, open APIs are an easy way for a small...
 
 
 
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