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	In wake of PRISM flap, Apple insists it cares about user privacy Apple has joined Microsoft, Google, and other companies looking to restore their good names after being fingered as participants in the NSA's PRISM surveillance program. The company issued a public letter describing the lengths it goes to in protecting user privacy, while providing a little bit of information as to how many data requests it receives. Read More WEBCAST: HP and Intel® Itanium® Mission-Critical Matters Jonathan Patrizio, HP High Availability and Disaster Recovery Expert, shares how you can utilize Linux ServiceGuard running on Intel-powered HP-UX to deliver uncompromising availability and cost savings for your mission-critical workloads. Learn more. In this Issue Samsung's next big thing: Born in the USA? China trounces U.S. in supercomputer race 7 essentials for defending against DDoS attacks WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Software, Inc. Apple-ization of the Enterprise The growing wave of BYOD and increasing numbers of Apple hardware in the workplace holds major implications and opportunity for today's software companies. It's what has come to define the post-PC era – the period when user-defined productivity devices began reconfiguring the structure of corporate IT. Learn More. Samsung's next big thing: Born in the USA? Could Samsung's "next big thing" come from the heart of the Big Apple or Silicon Valley? The smartphone and consumer electronics maker is close to launching an incubator space for startups that are developing software and services for phones, tablet computers and televisions. Read More China trounces U.S. in supercomputer race The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the Top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to execute 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 thousand trillion floating point operations per second. Read More 7 essentials for defending against DDoS attacks Go ahead and ask CSOs from the nation's largest banks about the myriad distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks they've experienced in recent months. They're not going to tell you anything. Security execs have never been comfortable talking about these attacks because they don't want to draw more attention to their companies. They worry that offering even the basic details of their defensive strategy will inspire attackers to find the holes. Read More
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