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	Have you had a vendor troubleshooting nightmare? Ok, so I'm clearly still on my vendor kick. Last night I was lucky enough to sit on a troubleshooting call with one of our app teams and their vendor. They were having issues with DB performance. Typically when I get on these types of calls I prefer to just lurk instead of getting really involved because the vendors are usually so stupid I really have a hard time not getting upset. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest A Cost-Effective Approach to Complexity Outsourcing network management can save time and drive lower total cost of ownership. Read more! In this Issue Two totally unrelated views of computer recycling Do we need a Federal law for electronics recycling? The DNSSEC Opportunity 'Hope all is well' can be annoying as ... well, it can be annoying Cisco IOS In A VM? It Will Be A Cold Day According To Vyatta CEO Are Cisco-led routing, switching specs necessary? Is Palm evaporating at HP? You love your management tool, but does it love you? Google CEO Schmidt: No Anonymity Is The Future Of Web WHITE PAPER: Sprint "Business-class" Service for the Global Customer Can global customers that are not part of the world's largest global companies get the "business-class" service they deserve? Find out in this white paper. Read More Two totally unrelated views of computer recycling This morning my colleague Michael Cooney has an interesting post about whether there should be national standards for the recycling of computers and other used electronics. Read More Do we need a Federal law for electronics recycling? A move could be afoot to get the Federal government behind a national law that would standardize the way electronic equipment is disposed of and or recycled. Read More The DNSSEC Opportunity DNSSEC is nothing new. The initial RFC was written in 1997 and the first specification was published in 1999. In spite of these efforts, secure DNS languished during the early 2000s as it wasn't a requirement for most organizations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Infrastructures for Innovation Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and speeding up customer service. They can generate immediate cost savings by eliminating the cost of maintaining separate voice lines. Read more! 'Hope all is well' can be annoying as ... well, it can be annoying An e-mail arrives this morning from someone I do not know personally and with whom I have had no prior business interaction. It begins this way: Hi Paul, Hope all is well. Hope all is well? Honestly? Maybe in the abstract, this person hopes I am well, but not really. Not in the way that I hope my sister in Minnesota, with whom I have been out of touch lately, is well. Read More Cisco IOS In A VM? It Will Be A Cold Day According To Vyatta CEO Virtualization has changed the game in many layers of the data center. One important piece of the data center stack that has not been available is Cisco's IOS. According to Vyatta CEO Kelly Herrell it won't be available anytime soon either. Read More Are Cisco-led routing, switching specs necessary? Two specifications in the IETF - one authored by Cisco, the other in a working group led by a Cisco engineer - are facing some resistance due to redundancy with capabilities already or soon to be on the market. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service See how you can transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Read now! Is Palm evaporating at HP? TechCrunch has confirmed that the man responsible for leading the Palm Pre design team has left HP. Peter Skillman was Vice President of Design at Palm, and had been with the company for 11 years. No word yet on what he'll be doing next.But he won't be working on webOS-based devices for HP, which finalized it's Palm buy-out in July. Read More You love your management tool, but does it love you? APM tool framework makes sure you cover the bases. Read More Google CEO Schmidt: No Anonymity Is The Future Of Web No anonymity is the future of web in the opinion of Google's CEO Eric Schmidt. He said many creepy things about privacy at the Techonomy Conference. The focus of the conference was how technology is changing and can change society. Schmidt's message was that anonymity is a dangerous thing and governments will demand an end to it. Read More
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