Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Citrix embraces Apple with iPhone virtualization; NYSE to implement 100Gbps network

Microsoft's Windows 7 release candidate goes public; IT pros justify high-tech investments during downturn; CCNA Security... What's Required
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Citrix embraces Apple with iPhone virtualization, app store for corporate IT

Jon Brodkin By Jon Brodkin
Citrix is bringing virtual desktops and applications to the iPhone and has revamped its server virtualization platform with new features that make it more competitive against VMware. Read full story

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The New York Stock Exchange will soon be implementing a 100 Gigabit Ethernet data network with help from equipment vendor Ciena. Also, McAfee is reporting that global e-mail spam volumes have dropped 20% for the first quarter this year, compared with the same period last year. (5:52)

NYSE to implement 100Gbps network
NYSE Euronext, the company that operates the New York Stock Exchange, will soon implement a 100Gbps data network with help from network equipment vendor Ciena.

Microsoft's Windows 7 release candidate goes public
The near-final version of Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, became available late Monday to the general public.

IT pros justify high-tech investments during downturn
Network World IT Roadmap speakers discuss the merits of high-tech investments from acceleration to management to compliance during a recession.

McAfee reports huge drop in spam
Spam has dropped noticeably so far this year, according to McAfee's Threat Report for the First Quarter of 2009, which says spam volumes were 20% lower for this quarter compared to the same quarter in 2008 and 30% lower than in the third quarter of last year when they reached their peak.

CCNA Security... What's Required
For those on the verge of deciding to pursue this certification, I want to take a few minutes to outline what’s involved and where it may lead.

EDS Jumps on the Application Performance Bandwagon
Sevcik and Wetzel: It was only a matter of time before system integrators codified a set of application performance optimization services. We've been eager to see who among the systems integrators would be first--and the winner is EDS (an HP company). Although other system integrators such as IBM Global Services provide custom solutions, to our knowledge EDS leads the pack in formalizing its application performance service offerings.

Hackneyed or amazing? Online system rates photos by artistic quality
Think you have some amazing photos? A new photo-rating system purports to determine the aesthetic value of an image might say otherwise. The system -- Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine (ACQUINE) -- extracts and uses visual aspects such as color saturation, color distribution and photo composition to give any uploaded image a rating from zero to 100. The system learns to associate these aspects with the way humans rate photos based on thousands of previously rated photographs in online photo-sharing Web sites such as photo.net.


Evolution of Ethernet
Evolution of Ethernet From 3Mbps over shared coax to 40/100Gbps over fiber…and beyond.

Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition
Apple iPhoneys: The 4G editioniPhone enthusiasts from around the Web offer their visions for the next-gen iPhone.

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05/05/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Death of the mouse
  2. Illinois programmer sues Google over "Android"
  3. RIM to bind BlackBerry to Cisco phones
  4. Use the Cisco restroom at your own risk
  5. Juniper bolsters branch router, switch lines
  6. Botnet probe turns up 70G bytes of personal, financial data
  7. Why mix Bluetooth with Wi-Fi?
  8. Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable?
  9. It takes a village idiot: The jerks of online forums
  10. Some IT skills see pay hikes during downturn
  11. Notebook replaces trackpad with LCD panel


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