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	Is Cisco 'too big to fail'? Is Cisco 'Too Big To Fail'? Companies come and go all the time, due to lots of factors. Economic, political, legislative, all reasons why a vendor is here today, and gone before close of business tomorrow. What impact would Cisco's failure have from a technology standpoint? Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps IT Service Management: Beyond the Myths Discover best practices and supporting technologies that deliver the straightest path to service reliability, operational efficiency and effective ROI. Also, examine three case studies that show how IT service management works in the real world. Read More! 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Facebook causes rickets, suicide... and now syphilis Yesterday, the Telegraph linked Facebook with a rise in syphilis. Read More Conficker may be quiet now but it's still a threat My recent post on how botnets are operating like cloud providers provoked a lively discussion in the comments section about Conficker but mostly about world geography. Read More The biggest cloud on the planet is owned by... the crooks Who's got the biggest cloud in the tech universe? Google? Pretty big, but no. Amazon? Lots and lots of servers, but not even close. Microsoft? They're just getting started. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! Microsoft's New Embrace of Open Source Makes Sense Microsoft seems to be spending a lot of time lately trying to convince the open source world it really means it no harm. And, just maybe, it's true. See, Microsoft is about making money. It's a business. When a business sees dollars being siphoned off by other sources, it begins to pay attention. A well-run business doesn't wait until it's lost the battle to co-opt the model picking away at it. Read More The FCC's Broadband Plan - It's the Politics, Stupid So I finished reading through the Executive Summary of the FCC's broadband plan announced on Tuesday of last week, and I've heard the commentary on the business channels (yes, I still monitor these during the day, although I switch to another one when the all-to-frequent commercials come on). Read More Finding God Through Open Source So a few things I usually try not to blog about are politics and religion. With everyone talking about healthcare and politics, I figure what the heck, lets talk religion. Easter and Passover will be here soon, why not. Being as this is an open source blog, I wanted to talk to you today (there you go, it's a sermon) about open source religion. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Q&A: Virtualization and Cloud Preparedness As more applications are added per compute node in a virtual environment, there is a corresponding increase in I/O requirements. In this Q&A with Brocade CTO, Dave Stevens, he answers questions on how to ensure your network infrastructure, all the way down to the storage level, is ready for virtualization. Read More! Video proves there are two sides to every story Even though this is a topic - "The Future of Publishing" -- about which I care deeply, I'm recommending that you watch this video more for the method of its production than the message it contains. It's only 2 minutes and 26 seconds but you have to get beyond the halfway point to appreciate what's going on. Read More Lessons learned from a long IT career In a career that has, so far, spanned about 30 years, I've watched IP and networking change significantly over the years. A few readers have asked me about my background, pointing out that my glib biography posted to the right seems thin. Fair enough … the bio is thin, the experience is not. Read More NASA gives Mars rover extra smarts NASA today said it upgraded the software controlling its Mars Rover Opportunity to let it make its own decisions. Read More Network World channeling The Onion or vice versa? Both items were published this past Monday, March 22. And both were centered around the familiar image of technology inventors and entrepreneurs toiling away in a garage on what will eventually become an HP, an Apple, or an Amazon.com. Or in The Onion's example, none of the above. 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