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	Windows 8 comes to the Mac With the recent arrivals of OS X Mountain Lion and Windows 8, new versions of VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop -- the top virtualization tools for running Windows on the Mac -- had to be just around the corner. VMware has struck first. Today the company rolled out Fusion 5, which supports Mountain Lion as a host and guest and also adds Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 12.04 to the guest list. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Solar Winds Quickly Identify Misconfigured Active Directory Permissions What users have access to sensitive files or directories? Find out without tedious manual effort. Troubleshoot permissions issues both locally and on remote shares with SolarWinds free tool, Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory. Easily see what permissions a user or group of users has for an object and why. Get a complete hierarchical view of the effective permission and access rights for a specific file folder or share drive today by downloading the free tool. Get Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory >> In this Issue How to prevent your own 'epic hack' with a 60-minute security makeover BYOD: What we can learn from China Apple v Samsung: Five experts, five questions HP reports $8.9B Q3 loss on writedowns, weak sales, lowers full-year forecast How to avoid BYOD bandwidth woes WEBCAST: IBM Platform Computing How to Reduce Cost with Hadoop Analytics Join featured analyst firm Gartner, Inc. and IBM Platform Computing for an informative webinar where you will learn how to combine best of breed analytic solutions to provide a low latency, shared big data infrastructure. Learn More How to prevent your own 'epic hack' with a 60-minute security makeover How's this for a digital nightmare? Your Twitter account hijacked; racist and homophobic tweets posted in your name. Your Apple account breached; data wiped from your iPhone, iPad and Mac laptop. Your Gmail password reset by hackers and your Google account deleted. That's what happened to Wired journalist Mat Honan recently, and you can bet there's an army of would-be imitators who, as you read this, are trying to duplicate that attack. Read More BYOD: What we can learn from China According to Stanley Li, CEO of San Francisco-based Netswitch, BYOD in China is far ahead of BYOD in the United States. In fact, the United States can learn some BYOD lessons from China. Read More Apple v Samsung: Five experts, five questions As a nine-person jury begins deliberations in the closely watched patent trial between Apple and Samsung, the companies and their lawyers are left waiting and wondering what the jury made of the three weeks of arguments. We polled five people with specialist knowledge of the legal system, patent litigation and trials, and the U.S. smartphone market to get their opinions on the trial so far. Read More HP reports $8.9B Q3 loss on writedowns, weak sales, lowers full-year forecast Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a $8.9 billion loss for its third quarter ended July 31 due to writedowns and weak hardware sales and also said full-year results would be at the low end of its previous guidance. Earlier this month, HP said it would take an $8 billion "impairment of goodwill" writedown against its services division. "Goodwill" refers to less tangible assets, such as brand strength, that are considered when figuring out a company's total value. HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of services provider EDS has been roundly criticized as too costly. Read More How to avoid BYOD bandwidth woes While nobody is predicting that the proliferation of mobile devices in the enterprise will create a full-blown bandwidth catastrophe, IT managers will have to move quickly to ensure satisfactory performance for employees accessing company data over wireless links. The biggest issue is ensuring that data is available when users want it, and that wireless connections are secure and reliable. While this is also true for wired networks, mobile computing poses an additional burden on IT. Read More
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