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Network World Daily News: AM, 06/07/07 Cisco's Linksys One brings SMB-focused gear tied to services
After more than a year-and-a-half delay, Cisco this week launched its Linksys One offering, aimed at providing small businesses with packaged routing, switching, voice, wireless and security gear tied to managed services. Seven things every IT person should know about storage
Here are seven storage truths that every IT person should understand. First up: You might be spending too much money on storage and still not getting performance gains. Microsoft makes LG Electronics latest cross-licensing patent partner
Microsoft Wednesday inked another cross-licensing patent agreement, this time with South Korea's LG Electronics, covering the company's Linux-based embedded devices. | Make the most of your Mobile Gear
Download our Free Executive Guide and learn how Network IT professionals are getting the most out of their mobile devices and improving mobile security. You'll also get the scoop on upcoming mobile tools and technologies and how they may impact your enterprise. Click Here to download today! | | Latest storage sales numbers show HP-IBM tie
If the competition between IBM and HP in the computer storage business were a horse race, you'd need a photo to determine how they finished the first quarter. But it would only be for the second place ribbon. Vendors virtualize Microsoft environments
Software vendors this week at TechEd are taking the opportunity to update their application virtualization products to support Microsoft environments including Vista. Shoppers willing to pay extra for privacy confidence, study finds
Study participants who were asked to go on the Web to purchase two items were more likely to buy from sellers with good privacy policies. Opinion: Why Avaya deal is good for customers
For the price of $8.2 billion, private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG Capital have offered to take Avaya private. This is the largest such transaction ever in the enterprise networking and communications arena. AT&T launches service to optimize Web apps
AT&T this week announced a fully managed Application Acceleration service designed to give Web-based applications a performance and responsiveness boost. HP, VMware each launch new virtualization options
HP is upgrading its virtualization software offerings to help data center managers better manage their virtual environments, while VMware is offering a virtualization capability for Web hosting companies. Video Drobo brings RAID storage to the masses
Storage isn't always sexy, but as Keith finds out, Data Robotics' Drobo self-mounting storage system is quite impressive and simple to use. Blogs Buzzblog: 4 major ISPs sign on to start collecting what critics call an 'e-mail tax'
Let the cries of 'e-mail tax' begin anew. Goodmail is set to announce tomorrow that it has signed Comcast, Cox Communications, Roadrunner and Verizon to its CertifiedEmail program, which means the service providers will be offering premium delivery to bulk senders in the form of paid passage around spam filters. Today on Layer 8, where we always question government motives:
A study says data on federal PCs and laptops is still vulnerable to theft or loss a year after the officials handling the Veterans Administration laptop loss scandal promised improvements. You may recall the laptop contained personal information including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and some limited health information of 26.5 million U.S. military veterans and their spouses. It was ultimately recovered. One key finding in the study: 13% of federal employees do not have encryption on their newly issued laptops. Ballmer and other software CEOs threaten to move R&D offshore unless they get more H1-B visas
The AP is reporting that Ballmer and other software execs say that unless they can import more skilled foreign workers, they’ll be forced to move R&D efforts offshore. The story says: “The growth of the high-tech industry's R&D efforts "in no insignificant measure depends upon hiring non-American citizens" due to a shortage of U.S. citizens with degrees in engineering, computer science and other technology fields, Steve Ballmer told reporters at a roundtable discussion.” | 
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