Thursday, August 13, 2009

Secrets of the best enterprise Wi-Fi networks revealed; 10 cool things you didn't know about Google

10 cool things you didn't know about Google; Twitter attack relatively small potatoes
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Secrets of the best enterprise Wi-Fi networks revealed

A new Aberdeen Group report documents the benefits of the practices, procedures and tools used by best-in-class organizations to optimize Wi-Fi performance and security. Read full story

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10 cool things you didn't know about Google
You use Google's site every day, but how well do you know the company? Take this quiz to see – and no fair googling the answers.

Twitter attack relatively small potatoes
Although last week's distributed denial-of-service attack on Twitter garnered lots of headlines, analysts at Arbor Networks says that the attack was a relatively small operation that paled in comparison to big DDoS attacks that occur every day.

Now Departing: Union Pacific's 40-Year-Old Mainframe
Union Pacific, the railroad company that transports chemicals, coal, food, minerals and automobiles in and around 23 Western U.S. states, has had two workhorses that toiled tirelessly for the past four decades: the diesel locomotive and the IBM mainframe.

Hiring hackers (part 1)
The British government announced at the end of July that it was planning to recruit "clever young people" to fight the cyberwars against domestic and especially foreign cyberoperatives.

Android security chief: Mobile-phone attacks coming
As smartphones become more popular, they're going to get some unwanted attention from criminals, Google's head of Android security said Wednesday.

NSF grant targets computer robustness, disaster recovery
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded more than $1 million to Colorado State University professors tasked with making computer systems and networks robust enough to handle everything from lightning strikes to terrorist attacks.

CA Ties Management Suites to Amazon's Cloud
There's no question that cloud-computing infrastructures will become a significant part the IT plans of large corporations, according to analysts. The question, at least right now, is how well those hybrid internal/external infrastructures will be managed.

Can unmanned aircraft mix safely with commercial aviation?
The Federal Aviation Administration this week signed a research and development agreement with GE Aviation to come up with a way to safely mix the burgeoning amounts of unmanned aircraft with commercial aviation.

August Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31.

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Cool BlackBerry games
Black HatBlackBerries are known for e-mail, but they are also getting better at mobile games. Here are 10 of the best.

Google facts
IT quizTake this quiz to see how well you know the company – and no fair googling the answers.

Is your data center ready for virtualization?
Virtualization can deliver dramatic benefits for data centers, but it can also stress the underlying support infrastructure. Power and cooling systems—which may have been quite sufficient for pre-virtualization needs—could easily become inadequate when data center performance patterns are radically altered.
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August 13, 2009

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