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	Microsoft pulls a "Facebook" by exposing Windows Live users' names Julie Bort: Users remain outraged that changes in the privacy settings for Windows Live made in June have exposed their names and other data, with no fix in sight. 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 In this Issue IE 9 under pressure to rebuild Microsoft browser share ACLU Report: Spying on Free Speech Nearly At Cold War Level Why do DBAs prefer VB over C#? Provide a Custom Theme With Your Company Colors for All Office 2007/2010 Users TDE vs Column Encryption How Windows 7 can save you money An easy way to check SQL Server backups Who are these people who think cybersecurity experts are crying wolf? How to get people to use your collaboration system Research: Unusual, Unpopular Passwords Are Simple and Most Secure Net Neutrality Has Few Real World Counterparts Visit the Microsoft Subnet home page for more Microsoft news WHITE PAPER: HP Standalone Data Reduction Technologies Data reduction technologies provide reliable and highly scalable storage solutions - with proven management and ease use that enable higher capacity utilization with less budget, time and energy. Learn about these technologies and how HP solutions can improve storage capacity utilization. Read Now IE 9 under pressure to rebuild Microsoft browser share Robert Mullins: A report from Janco measured Web browser share. It's not just about Internet Explorer, but how it also handicaps rival browsers. Read More ACLU Report: Spying on Free Speech Nearly At Cold War Level Ms. Smith: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released numerous reports of increased government spying on American citizens. Once upon an unhappy time, U.S. law enforcement agencies, from the FBI to local police, had a history of political spying during the Cold War. Read More Why do DBAs prefer VB over C#? Sean McCown: This morning I was having a talk with our lead web dev about the merits of C# over VB. And yeah, I know it sounds like one of those tired old conversations that never goes anywhere, but this actually wasn't. Read More Provide a Custom Theme With Your Company Colors for All Office 2007/2010 Users Bill Jelen: Office 2007 introduced the concept of themes to Excel and Word. If someone is designing a report in both Word and Excel, they could choose the identical theme from both Word and Excel to ensure that the documents have the same look and feel. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP HP Business Value of EVA Storage Virtualization This Edison Group report is an independent assessment of the architecture and business benefits of HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). Learn how EVA enables access to the storage in a single array by numerous hosts, tiered storage within the array to different types of drives and better performance than non-virtualized systems. Read Now. TDE vs Column Encryption Brian Egler: SQL Server 2008 introduced a great new feature called TDE, Transparent Data Encryption. It allowed a database to be completely encrypted and is referred to as encryption for "data at rest". But what about data in motion? Read More How Windows 7 can save you money Robert Mullins: While Microsoft is enjoying Windows 7's success, particularly with consumers, it is also pressing enterprises to migrate to it by providing an online ROI calculator. Read More An easy way to check SQL Server backups Sean McCown: For the past several weeks I've been doing nothing but complaining about vendors so I thought I'd take a break and write something about SQL Server for a change: backups. Read More Who are these people who think cybersecurity experts are crying wolf? Robert Mullins" It happened again Monday that a news report about the threat of cyberattacks was greeted with skepticism. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP ESG: Business Value of Reservationless Storage Capacity This report explores the value of some exciting new storage technologies which are collectively known as "reservationless storage." ESG Lab hands-on testing of the HP StorageWorks product line and analysis are used to quantify the business value of reservationless storage. Read Now How to get people to use your collaboration system Susan Hanley: Even if users are involved in every aspect of your new collaboration solution, there is no guarantee that the solution will be instantly adopted. Read More Research: Unusual, Unpopular Passwords Are Simple and Most Secure Ms. Smith: Microsoft researchers studied password security and concluded that popularity is everything. Enterprises might be interested to discover that simple but weird is what works best. Read More Net Neutrality Has Few Real World Counterparts Dustin Puryear: The Inquirer is running a story about AT&T's claims that net neutrality is "oppressive". Interesting. 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