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October 24, 2013
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Mavericks: The end of Macs in the enterprise?

Macs have never been that popular in the enterprise office. Sure, people love their MacBook Airs and their MacBook Pros, but CIOs usually frown at their price-tags. Still, the shiny Macs laptops have induced some big businesses, including ZDNet’s own parent company CBS Interactive, to buy these high-end laptops and, thanks to the Adobe Creative Suite/Creative Cloud, publishing, graphics design, and Web design departments all still use and love their Macs. Well, they do for now. They may not tomorrow because of Apple’s lack of security updates for older versions of Mac OS X.

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October 23, 2013
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Arbor Networks, Google draw digital-attack map

How bad are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks getting on the Internet? Arbor Networks, which specializes in DDoS defense and mitigation, has found that so far in 2013 the average DDoS attack now stands at 2.64Gbps, up 78 percent from 2012. Now, in concert with Google Ideas, a Google think tank, the two have created a global, data visualization map of DDoS attacks: the Digital Attack Map.

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October 22, 2013
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Gartner: By 2017, the hybrid cloud will rule

Gartner is predicting that by 2017 half of enterprises will have moved to hybrid clouds. Yes, they’re serious.

How things change. Only three years ago, the research giant found that most businesses still didn’t get the cloud. They looked at it as a way to secure the virtual data center. We’d now call that a private cloud

That was then. This is now.

Today, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst Thomas J. Bittman, states that Nearly half of large enterprises polled have deployed a private cloud service, and only 11% have no plans to do so through 2014.” OK, unless you’ve been living under a rock you knew that. The cloud, like it or lump it, is IT’s future.

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October 21, 2013
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Ubuntu Touch: The smartphone Ubuntu Linux arrives

Ubuntu 13.10 is great on the desktop. On smartphones, Saucy Salamander, aka Ubuntu Touch, is still a work in progress. That said, for mobile programmers and Linux or smartphone power users, there’s a lot to like about this first release of Ubuntu for smartphones and tablets. Here’s what you need to know about it today.

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