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	New Office suite for consumers available now Microsoft will begin selling worldwide on Tuesday the new consumer version of the Office suite, making it available both via a subscription model and perpetual licenses.Consumers have historically bought Office in the traditional way, which allows them to pay for the suite once and keep it forever, but Microsoft has made it clear it is partial to the subscription model, where licenses are renewed annually. Read More WHITE PAPER: Zerto What is Hypervisor-based Replication? This disaster recovery solution is the first to employ the hypervisor – the foundation of virtualized environments – for disaster recovery, enabling "virtual-aware" protection of mission-critical applications. You may also be interested in this security related whitepaper: http://bit.ly/10zSsWJ. Learn more. In this Issue Hands-on with Leap Motion's hands-off 3D 'mouse' InfoWorld seeks nominees for top tech leaders Pentagon to add thousands of new cyber security jobs 5 years after major DNS flaw is discovered, few U.S. companies have deployed long-term fix WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Breaking Big Data Performance Barriers In this exclusive webcast, you'll hear how IBM's Platform Symphony improved Big Data performance over pure Hadoop - by 74X - and how you can take advantage of this competitive differentiator. Learn More. Hands-on with Leap Motion's hands-off 3D 'mouse' If I say "controlling items on your screen simply by using hand gestures," your first thought is likely the movie "Minority Report," right? Well, Leap Motion's new UI device and software will do that soon if you'd like. But the company is thinking even bigger. Leap Motion's vision is not merely to replace the mouse or the touchscreen, but to tear down the idea that you have to interact with your computing devices via some other piece of hardware. You don't grab a mouse or poke a screen. You just move your hands in 3D space. Read More InfoWorld seeks nominees for top tech leaders These days, successful technology leadership means creatively and innovatively using technology to make a real business impact, whether in the private, government, education, or nonprofit sector. To honor the leaders behind such innovation, InfoWorld.com, the premier website for IT and business professionals seeking to stay abreast of leading technology trends and issues, seeks entries for its annual Technology Leadership Awards. Read More Pentagon to add thousands of new cyber security jobs The Pentagon is planning to expand its cyber security force nearly five fold over the next several years in a bid to bolster its defensive and offensive computer capabilities. The plan is to add about 4,000 more troops and civilians to the existing 900 personnel in the Defense Department's cyber Command, the Washington Post reported today citing several unnamed sources. Read More 5 years after major DNS flaw is discovered, few U.S. companies have deployed long-term fix Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to alleviate this threat. Read More
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