Windows goes rental, or maybe not

	Preston Gralla: Windows and Microsoft Office rental: Much less than meets the eye \| Protect your company from social engineering
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	Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Windows goes rental Microsoft has quietly made it possible to, sort of, rent both Windows and Office. Read More SPONSOR: Liebert Liebert CRV: Intelligent, Efficient Row-Based Precision Cooling Looking for a smart solution for temperature and humidity control in your data center? The new Liebert CRV is a rack-sized precision cooling unit that effectively delivers cooling close to the server heat source. Complete with Liebert iCOM controls, it provides efficiency without compromising reliability or flexibility. Learn more. Click to continue Table of Contents Preston Gralla: Windows and Microsoft Office rental: Much less than meets the eye Protect your company from social engineering Sharon Machlis: Is Apple morphing into the Microsoft of smartphones? Net neutrality: Needless yoke or new opportunity? ISP operators among 19 arrested in cyber-fraud case Group behind Twitter hack takes down Baidu.com Microsoft DirectAccess: The ugly truth I365 opens Evault cloud storage to ISVs Other Resources The Business Case for Virtualization The Need to Extend Wireless WAN SPONSOR: BlueArc Keeping Pace with Storage Growth Learn how to bring intelligent tiered storage into your environment with a flexible and efficient platform. Lower costs, create a more environmentally-friendly data center and optimize your storage environment. Intelligent tiering is a viable option today. Read More! Preston Gralla: Windows and Microsoft Office rental: Much less than meets the eye The news that Microsoft for the first time is allowing people to rent Windows and Office sounds at first blush as if it’s a big change in Microsoft’s business model. But that’s not at all the case: Microsoft is merely allowing some businesses to do what they’ve already been doing illegally for years. Most people will still have to pay full freight. Read More Protect your company from social engineering What are the most common and most current social engineering tactics and how can your organization prevent these scams? A guide on how to stop social engineering. Read More Sharon Machlis: Is Apple morphing into the Microsoft of smartphones? Apple’s ‘there’s an app for that’ iPhone campaign is essentially boasting about hefty market share. And when a smaller competitor came along that was vulnerable, Apple blocked access to its proprietary data. Read More Net neutrality: Needless yoke or new opportunity? The Federal Communication Commission’s net neutrality proceeding represents huge opportunities for network operators and equipment manufacturers to demonstrate that differentiated speed and service quality in vertically integrated networks will promote — not diminish — investment, innovation and consumer welfare. Read More SPONSOR: Unisys Making IT Your Competitive Advantage Examine the four areas an organization must focus on in order to become a real-time enterprise, enabling IT and business – to react to events in real time. Discover the steps you need to take to make IT a competitive advantage for your enterprise. Read more now. ISP operators among 19 arrested in cyber-fraud case The owner of a Dallas-based Internet service provider that was raided last April has been charged with participating in a conspiracy to defraud more than US$15 million from companies such as Verizon, AT&T and XO Communications. Read More Group behind Twitter hack takes down Baidu.com The group that took down Twitter.com last month has apparently claimed another victim: China’s largest search engine Baidu.com. Read More Microsoft DirectAccess: The ugly truth The seamless secure remote access built into Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is fantastic, if you don’t mind a forklift upgrade or complexity and work-arounds Read More I365 opens Evault cloud storage to ISVs Seagate’s backup service subsidiary i365 today announced it is making its cloud storage service available to independent software vendors that can in turn use it to sell as their own SaaS offering. Read More
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