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Featured Articles » How Adam Schefter's Accidental ESPN Firing Could Have Been Avoided At one of my previous places of employment, a senior executive once fired his new employee who had uprooted his family to move to a new city to pursue the opportunity he was currently in. Luckily, it was not real - it was just the worst April Fool's joke in history. » Designing Next-Gen Data Centers in the Era of Big Data Big data has revolutionized the way we think about data center design and orchestration. However, it's important not to get carried away with the hype, and to understand that big data cannot be looked at in isolation when considering future data center planning. Sponsored By: Denodo WEBINAR: Build a Contextual Marketing Engine and Fuel It with Data Date: Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:00 AM PT | Online webinar Register Today! Attend and Learn: What is a contextual marketing engine and how to build one? How to use a modern data management approach to fuel the engine with data? What is the role of big data and data virtualization in making a contextual marketing engine go? » Most Organizations Are Not Taking Advantage of PaaS and Other Cloud Agility Tools A majority of businesses are placing themselves at a competitive disadvantage by overestimating how agile they are at developing and launching new applications. A new study from Oracle shows that businesses believe they are agile, yet fail when it comes to flexibly managing their workloads or being able to speedily develop, test and launch new apps. » Survey Reveals That People Want to Completely Replace Passwords LaunchKey, a company that has made a name for itself as a mobile authentication platform released the findings of recent survey earlier this week. That survey found that password-based authentication is not capable of meeting demands of information security. Because of this factor, the survey found that a massive 84 percent of respondents are in support of throwing away the practice of passwords altogether. » 5 Tips on How Proxies Can Help Your Business Protecting your business's servers is likely one of your top priorities, especially if those servers contain sensitive customer information. Top security experts know that one of the best ways to protect a server is through the use of proxies, which block direct access to the network. But how do small businesses put this technology to use on their own networks? Top Stories » DataCore and Curvature Team on SDS Offering that Integrates with Legacy Storage Solutions » Accenture's Winner's Circle Designation in Procurement Technology is a Sign of Industry Maturation » BlueData Receives $20 Million Funding, Will Collaborate with Intel on Big Data Project TMCnet Free Premium Content » Colocation: The Essential Buyer's Guide » Understanding And Mitigating DNS DDoS Attacks » Five Ways To Prepare Your Infrastructure For Disaster Featured Channels » Business VoIP » Contact Center Analytics » Application Deployment Advertise With Us General advertising Info: Click here Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.     RESOURCES   Whitepapers Publications Videos Events Webinars Blogs Free eNewsletters

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