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	Startup Piston Cloud says it's built a better OpenStack installer There's been much buzz surrounding OpenStack as cloud players including Rackspace and Red Hat rolled out free versions of their tailored distributions of the open-source framework in the span of a week. Now startup Piston Cloud Computing has thrown its hat into the ring, offering Airframe, a trial version of its OpenStack-based Piston Cloud. At the same time, the company has criticized rivals for putting unstable or incomplete OpenStack distros into customers' hands. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Vendor Management in the New Era of IT How can IT organizations encourage greater vendor participation in deploying new and emerging technologies while managing less established industry providers? Hear insights and gain concepts from a panel of Chicago IT leaders at CIO Perspectives on September 11. Register Today In this Issue 4 questions to ask before starting a big data initiative Apple-Samsung patent battle now in jury's hands Engine Yard adds Node.js to hosted Web app dev tools roster Adobe releases six critical patches for Flash, AIR Mozilla sets end of Firefox for OS X Leopard WHITE PAPER: VMware Facilicom Services Group Case Study Facilicom wanted to consolidate its server environment to reduce the number of servers. The organization also wanted improve the IT environment's continuity. Based on VMware vSphere, Facilicom visualized almost all its servers, including the company-critical SAP systems. VMware offers Facilicom more control over the central server environment. Read Now! 4 questions to ask before starting a big data initiative Through many surveys, executives have identified that big data initiatives rank high on the projects lists for 2012 and 2013. It's not surprising, since the promise that big data can improve and streamline presentations, gain insights to consumer purchasing habits and, in the healthcare industry, even help save lives is simply too important to ignore. However, several key questions must be answered. Read More Apple-Samsung patent battle now in jury's hands A nine-person California jury will begin their deliberations Wednesday in the landmark patent battle between Apple and Samsung. The case, which has been argued since the beginning of the month, pits two of the world's largest electronics makers against each other and could result in billions of dollars in fines depending on the jury's decisions. Read More Engine Yard adds Node.js to hosted Web app dev tools roster Paving the way for more server-side use of JavaScript, PaaS (platform-as-a-service) provider Engine Yard has added the Node.js library to its collection of hosted Web application tools. The service, which Engine Yard first offered as a preview last November, will join Engine Yard's two other Web application-friendly offerings, Ruby on Rails, and PHP. Read More Adobe releases six critical patches for Flash, AIR Adobe Systems released fixes on Tuesday for six critical vulnerabilities affecting its Flash multimedia application and AIR runtime, five of which could allow for remote code execution on a system. The updates affect Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Google Chrome, and users of Android 2.x, 3.x and 4.x devices, Adobe said in its advisory. Read More Mozilla sets end of Firefox for OS X Leopard Mozilla will drop support for Apple's OS X 10.5, or Leopard, after it ships Firefox 16 in October, according to company developers. OS X 10.6 is Snow Leopard, the 2009 follow-up to Leopard, which shipped in October 2007. By Mozilla's release calendar, Firefox 16 is to debut Oct. 9. Firefox 17, the first that will not to pushed to Leopard users, is slated for a Nov. 20 launch. Read More
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