Thursday, February 12, 2009

WAN critical to virtualization's payoff; Hacker challenge takes aim at browsers, smartphones

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WAN critical to virtualization's payoff

Jim Duffy By Jim Duffy
Guaranteeing application performance over a WAN is hard enough. Now try doing it in a virtual environment. Read full story

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SQL Server 2008 - happy half-birthday
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Last call: Anheuser-Busch IT guy tossed into prison for computer theft
An ex-IT consultant for Anheuser-Busch this week got 18 months in prison and was ordered to pay $377,000 in restitution for swiping nearly $400,000 worth of the beer giant's computer gear.

Today on Microsoft Subnet
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Rumor mill: Cisco said to be gearing up to buy VMware, we'll believe it when we see it; Did Borat help Cisco bring its Mobile WiMAX technology to make benefit for glorious nation of Kazakhstan?; Blogger Larry Chaffin notes that Intel's $7 billion was made in the USA.

February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
Up for grabs: One American Express gift card worth $250 from Global Knowledge; One Microsoft training course worth $2,995 from Global Knowledge; 15 copies each of the hot book titles Voice over IP Security, and CCNA Wireless Official Exam Certification Guide and 15 copies of Exchange Server 2007 How-To: Real Solutions for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Administrators. Get all the entry details here.


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02/12/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Largest coordinated ATM rip-off ever nets $9+ million
  2. Shareholders say Microsoft squanders billions on R&D projects
  3. Evolution of PCs, Macs, Internet, routing, cell phones, Microsoft Windows
  4. Google's Latitude: Not new, but worrisome
  5. FAA network hacked
  6. A few clean words from the creator of Cursebird
  7. Nortel to shed shareholders meeting, more employees
  8. Kaspersky says Web hack 'should not have happened'
  9. Google adds ActiveSync to accommodate iPhone, Win Mobile
  10. IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy


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