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	You might know your IT roots if… And the more we hear about supposed innovations, the more that we find that our industry is continuing to lose the history – and the significance of that history – of the early days of networking. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue In this Issue Enterasys looks to head off Cisco, Brocade data center plans Twitter's service disruptions and outages persist Google Wi-Fi Data Capture Unethical, But Not Illegal Mobile broadband speeds jump in 2009 Facebook adds IPv6 support WHITE PAPER: Brocade 802.11n and Higher Education WLAN Opportunities Discover how Brocade Mobility solutions can help higher education institutions overcoming costly and difficult WLAN technical challenges. Learn More Enterasys looks to head off Cisco, Brocade data center plans Enterasys, the networking division of Siemens Enterprise Communications, this week unveiled it data center strategy, which hinges on partnerships and multivendor inclusion as well as the policy-based management capabilities of its switches. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Strategies for Unleashing Cloud Performance Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Click here! Twitter's service disruptions and outages persist Twitter's persistent and disruptive service outages entered a second week, as the company scrambles to bring its site availability back to acceptable levels. 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 Google Wi-Fi Data Capture Unethical, But Not Illegal Google is under global scrutiny for its "accidental" gathering of wi-fi data while driving about photographing the world with its Street View camera cars. In the court of public opinion Google's actions cross ethical boundaries, but whether or not the activities were illegal depends on the laws in place for the given jurisdiction. Businesses in the United States should understand that the interception of publicly available data traversing the airwaves is probably not illegal. Read More Mobile broadband speeds jump in 2009 Mobile broadband networks saw a huge jump in performance in 2009, driven by greater download speeds and reliability, according to analyst firm IDC. Read More Facebook adds IPv6 support Facebook said Thursday that it was offering "experimental, non-production" support for IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More
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