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	Cisco CEO Chambers: 'I did not want to compete against IBM and HP' Cisco CEO John Chambers on how the company is dealing with a whole slew of new partners and competitors Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM NWW Next-generation data protection for midsized companies Next-generation data protection takes advantage of the increasing capacities and decreasing costs of hard disk storage, and can be used to address challenges as improving your recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) by performing, non-disruptive backups, and data restoration. Read More In this Issue Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VWware on Celerra IT risks, wariness and planned obsolescence EMC's concept of virtual storage A new take on cloud security … from Hitler WHITE PAPER: Compuware 5 Tips for Getting the Best Web App Performance This eBook, compiled by Network World, explores the pressing issues, from dealing with outages and evaluating performance monitoring services, to the impact of virtualization. Get expert tips to optimize your Web apps. Learn More Now Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT Power grid hacks, massive DNS rerouting, solar flares -- end-times for IT may be more likely than you think Read More WHITE PAPER: Double-Take Software Virtualization and Disaster Recovery The need to protect virtualized systems is paramount but organizations may not understand how vulnerable they are to disaster. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of protecting virtualized workloads and how Double-Take Software's solutions can help. Read Now. EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VWware on Celerra EMC today said it is offering free upgrades to it Celerra NAS arrays management software for VMware data stores that allow for data deduplication, snap shots and automated fail over. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos Windows 7 security With the public release of Windows 7 debates and discussions have been raging on the security improvements in the new platform, and some potential problems have also emerged. In this white paper, we run through the most significant changes and additions, and look at what they might mean to users and administrators. Read now. IT risks, wariness and planned obsolescence In last week's Gearhead I wrote about some pyrotechnic chemistry and said that, luckily in IT the worst thing that can happen is an occasional electrical shock or stubbed toe. I then invited you to share your stories if you had experienced anything worse. Read More EMC's concept of virtual storage Pat Gelsinger, president and COO of EMC's Information Infrastructure Products group gave his definition of virtual storage, global federation and cache coherence to the analyst community last week. Read More A new take on cloud security … from Hitler Yes, these "Hitler finds out" parodies are getting old - so old, in fact, that even the Wall Street Journal has gotten around to writing about the meme. Rarely, however, have practitioners of the genre gotten their inner geek on quite in the way that Marcus Ranum and Gunnar Peterson do here when Hitler finds out that there are issues surrounding cloud computing and security. Read More
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