InfoWorld Daily AM | | From custom shoes to baby bonuses, companies are pulling out all the stops to lure top talent. READ MORE | | Issue highlights 1. Europe strikes back at Silicon Valley 2. Mark your calendars: Java 9 lands next year 3. Apache Flink: New Hadoop contender squares off against Spark | White Paper: OpenDNS Existing network defenses stop many attacks at various steps, but they react to malicious communications and code after attacks have launched. OpenDNS takes a different approachobserving where attackers' stage server infrastructures on the Internet. Learn more. Learn more | A wave of protectionism in Europe is making life hard for U.S. tech giants. Here's why it won't get any better. READ MORE | The Java 9 schedule, released by an Oracle official, allows for time to test key upgrades such as modularity. READ MORE | A flexible replacement for Hadoop MapReduce that supports real-time and batch processing, Flink offers advantages over Spark. READ MORE | White Paper: Alert Logic This paper offers for consideration four fundamentals of automated log management, along with a checklist including 13 sources of log data that should be monitored on a regular basis. View Now. | Join the IDG Contributor Network The IDG Contributor Network is a collection of blogs written by leading IT practitioners about the technology, business opportunities and challenges you face everyday. We invite you to participate by applying to be a contributor today. | | | | | |