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	Is network security a dead-end career? Hard to believe that I ever thought I would be sitting here wondering about the state of security as a viable career path. I have built my career up as a security dude/hacker for years, but lately I have been noticing a few things. Read More VIRTUAL EVENT: CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld & Network World Live Security Panel – April 28th Join us on April 28th for a live virtual event that will provide candid, expert advice on top security challenges and issues – all from the comfort of your desktop. Get in on the discussion - from the unique challenges presented by cloud computing and virtualization to the mass adoption of social media. Attend and you may win a Kindle! In this Issue The future of open source is in the middle Cisco's move to open-source its Telepresence is genius Four Considerations When Using Open Source in Production Change We Can Believe In - The White House Develops Open Source Code More comms hell Will Cloud Lead to the Failure of VDI? Gizmodo, "iPhone 4G," and the new "new journalism" Why do I refuse to buy anything from Apple? Because they are evil! Juniper attempts to lure new customers with the old switcheroo Reader answers last nagging question re: iPhone/9:42 25 years later: How the 'Net would have prevented New Coke WEBCAST: HyTrust 8 Tips for Virtualization Under Control Examine 8 tips that will show you how to virtualize more critical workloads with confidence. From security planning and policy management to automation and access controls, get expert advice on how to build a more secure virtual infrastructure to accelerate the virtualization of business-critical applications. Learn More! The future of open source is in the middle Open source, Erik Troan emphasizes, is not a business model. It's not an economic model. It's not a technological model.It's a set of value propositions. It's a community. It's a foundation upon which - gasp! - even proprietary programs can be built. Read More Cisco's move to open-source its Telepresence is genius Though Cisco was simply fulfilling a legal requirement when it announced this week it would release the code behind its Telepresence Interoperability Protocol as open source, it surely struck some as baffling. And struck others as good business sense. Read More Four Considerations When Using Open Source in Production Most IT staff and developers have no problem technically evaluating open source software. However, they often overlook other considerations that could mean success or failure of a production system. Here are some of the top non-technical issues you should consider for any open source that will be running in your production environment. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Tolly Group Performance Report Tolly Report: "Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP" shows you how Citrix NetScaler beat F5 in head-to-head tests - providing 3X faster Web traffic, lower latency and higher throughput. Learn More! Change We Can Believe In - The White House Develops Open Source Code The White House as part of their effort to have the whitehouse.gov site on an open platform today announced that they have contributed several modules and code they have developed under an open source license back to the Drupal community. Read More More comms hell Gibbs is trying to get back on the 'Net after moving house … AT&T isn't making it easy. Read More Will Cloud Lead to the Failure of VDI? I've said it before, but it bears repeating: VDI is not desktop virtualization. It is one of many deployment models that may fit into an overall desktop management strategy; but hang your hat on VDI alone and plan to fail. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Understand the Network Impact of 802.11n As performance and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission- critical applications. This paper outlines the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n. Read More! Gizmodo, "iPhone 4G," and the new "new journalism" Gizmodo proved that it will indeed do "anything for a story" by its involvement in the "iPhone 4G" controversy.Two weeks ago, I got out of my car in the parking lot of a business supplies store and looked down: there was a cell phone lying on the pavement. Read More Why do I refuse to buy anything from Apple? Because they are evil! I'm sure my Apple loving friends are going to give me a hard time about this post. But, I can't just simply stand around anymore and watch everyone drink the poison laced Kool-Aid. Come on people, I surely cannot be the only person to see the "Evilness" that now embodies Apple. Read More Juniper attempts to lure new customers with the old switcheroo Juniper Networks today announced a program to discount its EX Series branch offices switches by about 60 percent for new customers trading in old gear from "legacy" suppliers. The offer isn't open to folks who already own Juniper switches, though it is to Juniper customers of other products, like security, that haven't yet tried its switches. Read More Reader answers last nagging question re: iPhone/9:42 A post here April 7 finally got almost to the bottom of a three-year mystery by explaining that most every promotional photo of the iPhone carries the precise time 9:42 because that was the time Apple first unveiled the gadget publicly and the company wanted to make sure that the time on the picture shown on stage matched the time on the watches of audience members. Trivial matter, you say? Read More 25 years later: How the 'Net would have prevented New Coke Let's rewrite history: It was 25 years ago tomorrow, April 23, 1985, that the world's most famous soft drink company committed arguably the world's most famous product development/marketing gaffe: New Coke. Read More
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