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	Brocade BCNE most valuable cert on earth Scrappy data center networking vendor - Brocade, appears to be offering networking gurus the most valuable cert on earth, the Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE) at $146,250, at least according to the average salary rankings of the 2009 Certification Magazine Salary Survey. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Effectively Optimize your SSL VPN Guarantee your SSL VPN is operating at peak performance by selecting a robust and cost-effective WAN optimization solution. Support a secure and low-latency VPN that allows employees to work productively from anywhere. Download this whitepaper to learn more. Learn More In this Issue Why I'll Miss Sun Microsystems Are Quotas Good For Open Source? Why Apple's iPad won't kill the Kindle Apple's iPad: No Surprises - Except One Now It Is Open Source Solving Global Warming, Enough Already! 10 fun facts about RIM and the BlackBerry Sun's Scott McNealy: 'Thanks for a great 28 years' How to solve Rubik's Cube without peeling the stickers WHITE PAPER: Storwize Inside New Data Compression Technology Meet the demanding primary storage requirements for random access, high transaction volumes and high throughput. Examine how real-time compression tackles key requirements for primary storage data, including; performance, simplicity, data reduction, and high availability. Learn more Why I'll Miss Sun Microsystems An old friend sent me a link to Scott McNealy's email titled, "Thanks for a Great 28 Years," yesterday. Scott didn't really reflect on old memories in detail, but reading his words got me thinking. Read More Are Quotas Good For Open Source? Behind all of the recent news around governments adopting open source use policies, the questions of whether or not open source will actually be used and at what levels remain unanswered. Read More WHITE PAPER: Data Domain VMware Data Backup and Recovery Best Practices VMware offers extraordinary benefits, but it can come at the cost of extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. Data Domain deduplication storage offers a way out by reducing redundant data across VMware data backups, operating at disk speeds, and providing cost-effective replication for fast DR using backup images. Click here to learn more. Why Apple's iPad won't kill the Kindle Predictions and convictions that Apple's iPad has already torpedoed the Amazon Kindle e-reader, and all the others, is just plain wrong.At least that's the view of executives at E Ink, in Cambridge, Mass., the leading maker of "electronic paper displays" for e-book readers, including the Kindle and the Sony Reader. Read More Apple's iPad: No Surprises - Except One My previous musings on the Apple tablet (now the iPad) were pretty much on target. OK, one notable exception - I had assumed that if the product were larger it would actually be a Mac. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Lowering Wireless Data Costs with WAN Optimization Dramatically lower your wireless data costs while significantly speeding applications with mobile WAN optimization tools. Fuji Xerox Australia describes the benefits it has seen since its deployment in this whitepaper. Learn how you can save 30% on 3G data costs while improving application throughput by 20 times. Learn More Now It Is Open Source Solving Global Warming, Enough Already! In the last week or two I have read and blogged on some novel new uses for open source in some very non-traditional areas. Open source hardware, open source automobiles, even open source DNA fragments.( Reflecting on it, open source DNA seems closer to traditional open source code than some of the others.) Now topping them all is a call for open source to combat climate change! Read More 10 fun facts about RIM and the BlackBerry Alastair Sweeney's book BlackBerry Planet, released last year, tells you more than you ever needed to know about Research in Motion and its famous smartphones, but as a relatively new BlackBerry user I figured getting a good backgrounder would be useful. Read More Sun's Scott McNealy: 'Thanks for a great 28 years' Sun founder Scott McNealy yesterday holstered the snark and poured his heart out in a farewell letter to company employees and stakeholders. Read More How to solve Rubik's Cube without peeling the stickers Happy birthday to the Rubik's Cube, which was launched in 1980 (invented in 1974, but licensed by Ideal in 1980) and began a craze of goofy kids like yours truly (I was 11 or 12 at the time) trying to impress people with their cube-solving skills. Read More
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