• VMware to Buy Mobile Management and Security Provider AirWatch for $1.54B

  Virtualization and cloud software provider VMware has signed a definitive agreement to buy AirWatch, a provider of enterprise mobile management and security solutions, which is expected to add secure, mobile workforce capabilities to VMware's end-user computing portfolio.

• IBM POWER Technology To Be Used in Suzhou PowerCore Technology

  Suzhou PowerCore licenses IBM POWER technology to develop and market chips for servers in China, Cirrascale makes power infrastructure improvements to its BladeRack 2 F-Series platform, and Tolly Group testing finds Fusion-io ioControl outperforms conventional hybrid flash arrays.

• How would you build the next Internet? Loons, Drones, Copters, Satellites, or Something Else?

  If you were going to design a next generation Internet at the physical layer that routes around the current Internet, what would it look like? What should it do? How should it work? Who should own it? How should it be paid for? How would you access it? It has long been said the Internet routes…

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• Hadoop and Enterprise Data Hubs: Aspirational Marketing

  Hadoop and Enterprise Data Hubs: Aspirational Marketing : Merv Adrian: In those same shops, there are thousands of significant database instances,and tens of thousands of applications — and those are conservative numbers.So the first few Hadoop applications will represent a toehold in…

• Closed Captions on YouTube

  With help from the non-profit, open-source project Amara , we've added English closed captions to all of our videos on YouTube. This includes all videos on the main GitHub channel (such as OctoTales , Passion Projects , and the Better Together music video), as well as videos on the GitHub…

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• Video from Passion Projects Talk #8 with Ligaya Tichy

  Ligaya Tichy joined us in November of 2013 for the 8th installment of our Passion Projects talk series. Ligaya's talk inspired us all to give more charitably and left us with a concrete plan of action to get better at giving in 2014. Check out the full video of her talk and our panel discussion…

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