Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick recap of tech news and stories you may have missed!

• Google Pays $500 Million to Buy Satellite Maker Skybox Imaging
• Brown University goes personal with 100 percent virtualized cloud
• How Hackers Set Up Illegal Mines for Virtual Currencies
• Increased Productivity & Design Flexibility: The Case for Migrating to SharePoint 2013
• Georgia Tech Engineering Students Use Virtual Desktops to Access Specialized Tools Anywhere, Anytime
• Google Offers Cloud Database to Aid Autism Research
• Some clouds may bypass IT, but someone still needs to keep the lights on
• Food Chain, PF Chang’s, Investigates Possible Card Breach
• LEAKED: LG’s First Android Wear Smartwatch Will Supposedly Offer 36-Hour Battery Life
• Clean Cloud Is the Future
• Top Ten Competencies of the Modern CIO
• Target Names Its First CISO
• How Big Data is Redefining the Role of a CIO
• Data Never Sleeps {Infographic}
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Gets from 97 Data Centers Down to 8
• 14 year olds finds manual online, hack an ATM during their school lunch hour

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Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick recap of tech news and stories you may have missed!

• Hybrid cloud: The new normal for federal IT
• New cassette tape could hold 47 million songs
• Nearly Half of All Organizations Are Begging for a Data Breach
• A Tale of Two Data Centers
• Google testing what could be ‘dramatic’ Gmail redesign Gmail redesign
• Ira Winkler: My run-in with the  Syrian Electronic Army
• Top 4 Reasons Why Visibility and Control Are Key to Virtualization
• Hospital adopts virtual desktops
• Key Announcements from Citrix Synergy 2014 – Part 1
• Key Announcements from Citrix Synergy 2014 – Part 2
• Have You Met My Friend, Cloud Sprawl?
• Gartner Survey Shows U.S. Consumers Have Little Security Concern With BYOD
• Prepare Your Network for Private and Hybrid Cloud
• You Can Now Text 911 in an Emergency
• Cloud Solutions’ Benefits For Healthcare Extend Beyond Computing — To Safety

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Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick recap of news and stories you may have missed!

• Kentucky Enacts a Data Breach Notification Law and Protects Student Data in the Cloud
• The 10 Most Massively Popular Smartphones You’ve Never Heard Of
• The five characteristics of a new breed of CIO: Gartner
• Dropbox defends appointing Condoleezza Rice to board
• “Huge New York Development Project Becomes a Data Science Lab” via NYT Technology
• Are Touchscreens Melting Your Kid’s Brain?
• VMware launching new cloud service for disaster recovery
•  Have You Seen this Email? ‘Microsoft Software Asset Management Review’
• The Explosive Growth of Cloud Computing [Infographic]
• How CIOs Can Influence Corporate Performance
• With Google Glass, the doctor can see you now
• 19-Year-Old Canadian Arrested for Heartbleed Hack
• VMware To Invest $500 Million In India
• 3 Million Customer Credit, Debit Cards Stolen in Michaels, Aaron Brothers Breaches

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Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick recap of news and stories you may have missed!

• Microsoft’s latest study shows enterprises’ pace of cloud computing adoption continues to accelerate
• BYOD & Enterprise Mobility Market to Grow at a CAGR of 26.6% to 2019
• Software Defined Data Center Market Growing at CAGR of 68.7% to Reach $5.41 Billion By 2018
•  CIOs Need To Bend IT Like Beckham
• How Big Data Can Enable Better Banking Experience
• 8 Books Every IT Leader Should Read This Year
• Game of Thrones: Five Takeaways for IT
• Google looks to push Glass into the enterprise
• Majority Of Users Have Not Received Security Awareness Training, Study Says
• How Tech Can Help Cities Reduce Crime
• Confirmed: Google will let anyone in the U.S. buy Google Glass for just one day
• Government CIOs Face Data Center Consolidation Challenges
• Apple and Samsung spar over $2.2B damages claim
• Who’s to blame for ‘catastrophic’ Heartbleed Bug?

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Here’s a quick IT news recap from around the web for the week of 3/31/2014. Enjoy!

• Microsoft #Azure Matches Amazon’s Price Cuts And Introduces New “Basic” Tier
• Analysts forecast Global VDI market to grow at a CAGR of 9.04 percent over the period 2013-2018
• Mistake in CryptoDefense ransomware leaves decryption key accessible
• Enterprise Software, Devices to Drive IT Spending Growth This Year, Gartner Says
• Google claims that its collection of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks was legal
• #Cloud Computing Trends and Latest Stats
• Amazon Just Pushed Game Consoles One Step Closer to Death
•  March Madness Final Four: NCAA Basketball & #Microsoft Ending Extended Support
• Bring your own wearables on the way, Google exec warns CIOs
• Are You Ready for a Project Management Office? Part 2 – Players and Pitfalls
• How Boeing is using the cloud
• Cisco’s CIO Calls For Speed And Agility At Interop
• The must-have iPad office apps, round 8

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In case you missed it: Here’s a quick recap of tech news and articles from the week of 3/10/2014!

• VMware Unwraps Hybrid Cloud Desktop Virtualization
• Shaquille O’Neal: The Self-Professed Tech Geek
• The Business Savvy CIO
• Report: Cybercriminals Bank Nearly $4 Billion On Tax Fraud
• Inventor of the web marks its 25th anniversary by calling for net neutrality
• Cloud Wars Heating Up in 2014
• Army Expands Virtual Desktop Program
• The Internet of Things – There’s no stopping it!
• Snowden revelations raise interest in smartphone spyware for business
• Techies see future where Web flows like electricity
• Google Drive Chops Prices
• PaaS market to reach $6.94 billion by 2018
• Tablets as secondary computers for the enterprise
• MasterCard, Visa form group to push better payment security
• Forget strategy, IT managers are too busy fighting fires
• Target CIO’s Resignation: 7 Questions
• Healthcare Cloud Computing Market Set to Hit $6.5 Billion by 2018

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