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	Court rulings take the shine off Apple's reputation Apple's reputation and coffers have taken a double hit, courtesy of separate court rulings out of Australia and The Netherlands. The developments further blemish the company's once sparkling reputation. Read More WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) Optimizing Virtual Platform Disk Performance In a virtualized environment where resources are shared among multiple virtual machines, file and free space fragmentation impedes performance exponentially. Fragmentation prevention and defragmentation technologies exist to eliminate unnecessary I/O overhead, and improve system performance. Read Now! In this Issue Nokia's big problem: Windows Phone 8 won't run on current Windows Phone Don't expect a kinder, gentler Oracle after sales exec's departure Black Hat targets the C-level Twitter explains outage, apologizes for downtime Top 10 enterprise applications for public clouds WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) Selecting a Performance Optimization Solution Twenty-four vital points – ranging from unmatched increases in performance, operational transparency, thoroughness, and management considerations – make an undeniable case for Diskeeper as the only cost-effective and complete solution to address disk fragmentation. Read Now! Nokia's big problem: Windows Phone 8 won't run on current Windows Phone Windows Phone 8, coming in the fall, won't run on existing Windows Phones, Microsoft said during the launch of the smartphone operating system Wednesday. As a result, analysts expect sales of existing Windows Phone models to get battered in the coming months, creating acute problems for the ailing Nokia, which makes Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone 7.5. Read More Don't expect a kinder, gentler Oracle after sales exec's departure Oracle customers hoping that the pending departure of a top company executive will help pave the way for a kinder, gentler sales culture may be engaged in wishful thinking, according to industry observers. Read More Black Hat targets the C-level True story: A couple years ago, CSO Publisher Bob Bragdon attended Black Hat USA in Las Vegas. Accustomed to dealing with security practitioners at the executive level, he felt like a fish out of water in hallways teeming with torn jeans, leather and a variety of hair styles typically frowned upon in the boardroom. "I was walking around asking myself, what is this?" Bragdon told me after that event. He apparently wasn't the first suit to feel that way, as the event has remained largely a hacker fest. But even the hacking scene has grown more corporate in the past decade, and new Black Hat General Manager Trey Ford wants his events to bridge the gap between these camps. Read More Twitter explains outage, apologizes for downtime Twitter was forced to roll back its software to a previous stable version on Thursday in order to restore service after a two-hour outage, one of its engineers said in a blog post. Neither hackers nor animated GIFs for user avatars caused the service to crash around 9 a.m. Pacific Time, wrote Mazen Rawashdeh, vice president of engineering. Read More Top 10 enterprise applications for public clouds CEOs and CFOs are becoming aware of the pay-as-you-go model of the public cloud, and they are looking to CIOs and senior IT management to determine how and where their organizations can use the public cloud, even if it's not for mission critical applications. Fortunately, a number of applications within any organization completely skirt the concerns mentioned above and are eminently suitable for public cloud implementations or pilots. These 10 apps are "public cloud ready." Read More
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