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Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar In this webinar David Huffman, CEO of Storix, shares his knowledge on how to improve your existing Linux recovery strategies for better disaster preparedness. View the webinar

Business News Facebook to get IN YOUR FACE with video ads Report says silent vids will land in every timeline Michael Dell accuses Icahn of using court as takeover tool Vulture capitalist ups his stake ahead of vote Groupon pops corks: Happy CEO, sales and shares up, profit... oh Voucher bazaar turns to mobe deals, puts on a brave face Channel News BYOD for our staff? 'Career limiting' move, says Dell exec Turning up with rivals kit? Turn round and go back home Cloud News CANNIBAL CLOUD found devouring enterprise bit barns – report Boom in third-party providers as company DCs face budget cuts Rackspace spends big bucks to peddle its cloud vision Striking while the fluffy hybrid iron is hot Data Centre News Unisys to forge new Xeon iron with homegrown s-Par partitioning Mainframe virtualization is better – and more secure – than x86 alternatives SMART Storage: Super DIMM sum adds up to tasty flash soup El Reg talks latency with the product-pusher Future of storage: Micron bets chips on 3D NAND flash – but NOT YET NAND planarity has a few good years still They do it with mirrors: Nasuni reveals new cloudy protection plan We were up when Azure was down, boasts CEO Hardware News US Department of Defense throws lifeline to beleaguered BlackBerry Will it help Waterloo's sagging fortunes that their new BFF is heavily armed? Xbox One users will have to pay extra for Skype and gamer-gratifying DVR Video Unboxing video shows you at least get a free headset Acer to downplay Windows in favor of Android, Chrome OS Preparing for 'the day after tomorrow' Patching Xerox's number-changing photocopy phlaw will take weeks Company publishes a workaround in the meantime Canonical: Last change to Ubuntu Edge phone price – we promise Just keep pledging, please... PEAK iPAD: Slab looking a bit peaky, needs big biz to take more tablets Sales stall, lack of innovation and absence of Microsoft Office blamed British ankle-biters handed first mobe at the age of SEVEN - Ofcom By 12, they're too cool for a featurephone Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar In this webinar David Huffman, CEO of Storix, shares his knowledge on how to improve your existing Linux recovery strategies for better disaster preparedness. View the webinar Networks News Bill Gates's barbed comments pop Google's broadband balloons 'When you're dying of malaria ... I’m not sure how it'll help you' Policy News Publishers stand behind Apple in ebook price-fixing fight DoJ trying to 'impose a specific business model on the publishing industry,' they argue Google shields open source cloud tech from patent trolls Adds 79 infrastructure patents to non-aggression IP chest US taxmen told to hush up shadowy drug squad unit laundering NSA intel IRS ordered to help fudge real source of evidence for narcotics busts Ofcom: Making a switch between ISPs will soon be much easier You'll have to wait until 2015 though Here we go again: Apple gets second bite in ITC Moto patent spat Appeals court says commission was wrong about Moto's innocence Cameron demands Brits BOYCOTT angry-troll-infested websites The 'off' button is a great regulator, apparently Brits give thumbs-up to shale gas slurping in university-run poll Analysis The more you scare us, the more we ignore you Give up your privacy so Big Data can FIX GOVERNMENT Kiwi bureaucrat says results of youth scheme show it's worth turning privacy on its head Security News Mozilla links Gmail with Persona for email-based single sign-on Usernames and passwords not needed Ed Snowden's secure email provider shuts down under gag order Won't be 'complicit in crimes against the American people' Child abuse ransomware tweaked to tout bogus antivirus saviours Crass, fiendish and no doubt a good money-spinner HP plugs password-leaking printer flaw Bad news: Most office bods won't patch it. Good news: Most office bods won't find password Blogs with 'weakest of the weak' passwords hijacked for bot army Wordpress, Joomla, Datalife Engine - they're all under cyber-crims' control So, you gonna foot this '$200bn' hacking bill, insurance giants asked Cyber-cleanups of cyber-raids on Uncle Sam's cyber-assets cost cyber-amounts of cash Chrome, Firefox blab your passwords in a just few clicks: Shrug, wary or kill? Poll Vote now: Browsers reveal logins on idle PCs, but is it a code flaw or a brain bug? Software News Cognitive computing: IBM unveils software for its brain-like SyNAPSE chips From the firm that brought you the 'cat brain chip' 'Hand of Thief' banking Trojan reaches for Linux – for only $2K 'Early sign of Linux becoming less secure,' says infosec bod Apple: Of course we stalk your EVERY move. iOS 7 has a new map to prove it Cupertino knows where you were last summer – it's a feature Google sniffs at MySQL fork MariaDB: Yum. Have an engineer Exclusive Keeping the DB alive outside Larry's grasp? Sounds good to Choc Factory Google lifts skirts, reveals Play All Access to UK market Spotify for fandroids? Something like that, yeah Science News NASA boffins release Europa mission wish list PIC Dream lander design revealed Bootnotes News Webcam stripper strikes back at vicious 4Chan trolls after year of bullying 'Their hateful lives motivate them to hate people they don't know' Linux and AIX Bare-Metal Recovery Webinar In this webinar David Huffman, CEO of Storix, shares his knowledge on how to improve your existing Linux recovery strategies for better disaster preparedness. View the webinar

Whitepapers Reg Reader Research: SaaS based Email and Office Productivity Tools Read this Reg reader report which provides advice and guidance for SMBs towards the use of SaaS based email and Office productivity tools. Big Data Demands Big Changes to Legacy Backup View the Storage Switzerland report on backup software licensing placing undue burden on enterprises and the new era of licensing to improve efficiencies and costs. High Performance for All While HPC is not new, it has traditionally been seen as a specialist area – is it now geared up to meet more mainstream requirements? Cloud based data management Frost and Sullivan confirms the complexity of backup/recovery due to heterogeneity of devices, etc and details how Asigra is addressing these issues. Steps to Take Before Choosing a Business Continuity Partner This Aberdeen Analyst report details the necessities in creating business continuity plans and if there’s the need to outsource part/all of the process. Search more Resources

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