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Is Cisco Microsoft's friend or foe?
Robert Mullins: Cisco Systems announced the coming new Cisco Quad enterprise collaboration platform and after viewing a demo of it a few days ago, I found the similarities between it and Microsoft's Unified Communications platform to be readily apparent. Is Quad is intended to integrate with UC or compete with it? Read More


WHITE PAPER: ArcSight

Building a Successful Security Operations Center
This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

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Google, Microsoft online apps both fail over privacy
Ms. Smith: Microsoft and Google are no longer pretending to play nice. While these two giants are busy battling for dominance, will you suffer as your right to privacy falls by the wayside? Read More

CSC offers Microsoft Exchange 2010 in the cloud
Jon Brodkin: CSC is now offering CloudExchange, a cloud-based e-mail and collaboration service based on Microsoft Exchange 2010, even before Microsoft itself. Read More

Microsoft says Google security researcher put Windows customers at risk
Jon Brodkin: Microsoft accused a Google security researcher of putting Windows customers at risk of "broad attacks" by publishing code that exploits a zero-day vulnerability. Readers have a lot to say on the matter. Read More

HP takes on Microsoft on application security
Robert Mullins: Microsoft drew a crowd at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco in March to a breakout session on its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) initiative. Now HP is offering what it says is a better approach. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here!

Using Network Access Protection Outside of Windows
Dustin Puryear: I recently blogged about access control differences between Windows and Linux/UNIX, and a reader wondered about whether NAP was supported outside of Windows. Well, that's a good question. Read More

Will iPhone 4's FaceTime See Much Face Time?
Mitchell Ashley: In many ways the iPhone 4 launch was a tale of two cities; Apple innovating with elegant hardware and Apple playing catchup with lagging features. The wild card is the video chat/talk of FaceTime. Read More

Duplicate Message Detection bug in Exchange Server 2010 RU 1 and greater…
Tyson Kopczynski: Exchange Server 2010 RU 1 or later introduced a very odd Duplicate Message Detection bug. You encounter the bug when a delegate receives the same meeting request on behalf of the delegator and to themselves. Read More

TechEd New Orleans - Day 2
Rand Morimoto: With TechEd in New Orleans lasting only four days, Day 2 was packed with events. Read More


E-GUIDE: Compuware

Perfecting Application Performance
The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now.

Watch out Google: Microsoft delivers free Office Web Apps one week early
Jon Brodkin: Microsoft promised to release Office Web Apps by June 15, but got them out to the Intertubes one week early. Read More

Comparing Access Control in Windows and Linux
Dustin Puryear: Ellen Messmer recently wrote an article entitled "Windows Server vs. Linux", where she spoke on some key differentiators between Windows and Linux. I have a few thoughts on the matter myself. Read More

Facebook stalks users across 200,000 websites
Jon Brodkin: I'm a loyal Facebook user. I'm not as obsessed as the FarmVille- and Mafia Wars-playing crowd, but I check the site every day and am not about to delete my account. Like many other people, however, I am concerned about my privacy online. Read More

How Microsoft helps Polycom and vice versa
Robert Mullins: Video conference vendor Polycom introduced Monday new technology for setting up telepresence conference sessions while also touting how its technology integrates with Microsoft's Unified Communications platform. Read More

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