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	Microsoft's secret licensing deal with OnLive Last week InfoWorld's Galen Gruman wrote a scathing review of OnLive Desktop, the free iPad app that puts the Windows 7 desktop and Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2010 all on your iPad. For free. It was that last bit that really drew my attention. Free? How on earth could a company offer free access to Windows and Office 2010 apps ... not charge anything? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Why Run Windows Server Apps on AWS? Top 5 Reasons: 1. No New Hardware, 2. Get Started in Minutes, 3. Use Your .NET Skills in the AWS Cloud, 4. On-Demand Test Environments, and 5. Use your Existing Microsoft Licenses. Learn more with on-demand webinar. Watch now! In this Issue Google just got pwned -- and it's happy about it Star Trek's Mr. Sulu steers Facebook to MySQL solution BYOD: Making sense of the work-personal device blur Do IT execs know sensitive data when they see it? Can big data nab cyber criminals? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Why Run Windows Server Apps on AWS? Top 5 Reasons: 1. No New Hardware, 2. Get Started in Minutes, 3. Use Your .NET Skills in the AWS Cloud, 4. On-Demand Test Environments, and 5. Use your Existing Microsoft Licenses. Learn more with on-demand webinar. Watch now! Google just got pwned -- and it's happy about it Most companies are not happy when a security pro sits down and hacks their flagship product. Google has a different attitude when it comes to the security of its products, though. On Wednesday, the Internet giant announced -- nay, chortled -- that Sergey Glazunov, a longtime bug finder in Google's bounty program, took control of a Windows 7 system using only flaws in Google's Chrome browser. Read More Star Trek's Mr. Sulu steers Facebook to MySQL solution Facebook's engineering team has given a public nod to "Star Trek" celebrity George Takei for helping them fix a site performance problem that could be traced to MySQL. Judging by a recent account from Facebook engineer Mark Callaghan, however, the site's database infrastructure team struggles on a daily basis with wringing snappy, reliable performance out of database that, by some accounts, is simply ill-suited for a site like Facebook. Read More BYOD: Making sense of the work-personal device blur A panel of five IT executives gathered on the main stage of the Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise Conference and Expo, or CITE, in San Francisco this week to discuss ways to empower a fast-emerging class of workers. Called the BYOD (bring-your-own-device) workforce, these employees want to marry corporate computing with their personal tech gadgets, such as iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. They rely on these devices to manage their personal lives and get work done. It's the latter part that has CIOs scrambling for ways to support them. Read More Do IT execs know sensitive data when they see it? Today's companies, clearly very good at collecting data, seem "less savvy when it comes to how to classify and manage it." That's the conclusion of a survey among 100 IT executives and others conducted by global consulting firm Protiviti, which finds that there is "limited or no understanding of the difference between sensitive information and other data" at nearly a quarter of the companies participating in its survey. Read More Can big data nab cyber criminals? The buzz in security circles about "big data" goes something like this: If the enterprise could only unite its security-related event data with a warehouse of business information, it could analyze this big data to catch intruders trying to steal sensitive information. Read More
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