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	Windows Azure challenges Amazon cloud with Windows, Linux, kitchen sink Competition in the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market ratcheted up a few degrees this week as Microsoft launched Windows Azure, its reply to the marketing-leading Amazon Web Service (AWS). Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense Security Overview Websense ACE ACE is the real-time defense engine at the core of Websense web, email, data, and mobile security solutions. Learn how ACE uses Websense ThreatSeeker Network. Read Now! In this Issue Assange to Google's Schmidt: 'I don't use email' Larry Page defends Google's 'big bets' on Glass, driver-less cars U.S. firms say H-1B restrictions may help them IBM-Lenovo deal likely to focus on low-end, commodity servers WHITE PAPER: Falconstor Software How Data Deduplication Works IT managers and executives face explosive data growth, driving up costs of storage for backup and disaster recovery (DR). For this reason, data deduplication is regarded as the next evolutionary step in backup technology. Learn More Assange to Google's Schmidt: 'I don't use email' Wikileaks' latest release is billed as a transcript of a "secret meeting," but it may more accurately be termed a promotion. The site on Friday released a five-hour transcript of a June 2011 meeting between Julian Assange, one of the whistle-blowing site's founders, and Eric E. Schmidt, Google's executive chairman. Read More Larry Page defends Google's 'big bets' on Glass, driver-less cars Google's core product may always be search, but the company is just as serious about providing in-the-moment information to users with emerging technologies such as Google Now, self-driving cars and Glass, CEO Larry Page signaled on Thursday. Those products, along with others such as voice-based search, may comprise risky "big bets" at the company, but Google doesn't just want to be focused on "incremental technologies," Page said during the company's first-quarter earnings call. Read More U.S. firms say H-1B restrictions may help them IT support services firm Caleris has this message on its homepage, "Outsource to Iowa. Not India," against a picture of a corn field and farm houses. Caleris' message could not be clearer. The company is competing from rural Iowa, with its lower cost-of-living, against India's offshore providers, and those in many other countries as well. But Caleris' founders, Sheldon Ohringer and Rick Grewell, two native Iowans, believe the U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill may help them. Read More IBM-Lenovo deal likely to focus on low-end, commodity servers Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such as IBM's PureSystems and iDataPlex servers, an industry analyst said Thursday. Read More
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