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	VMware vShield: A Good Start, but. . . You've got to hand it to VMware -- it clearly understands the strengths and weaknesses of the ESX environment and is focused on improving the platform. Case in point at this week's VMworld when the company announced the VMware vShield family of security products. Read More WEBCAST: Certeon Going Virtual with WAN Optimization Software This Webcast will provide you with the necessary information required to deploy high performance virtualized infrastructures that support remote access to resources and applications. Learn More In this Issue Oh Snap! Consumer Watchdog kicks Google and CEO Schmidt HARD! About that "new research" that says CEOs got rich by firing workers... Are Web Browsers Going the Way of the Dinosaur? Open Source: No one is working for free How to get tough with your tech vendors 'Hello Kettle? This is Pot. You're black.' What Apple has in common with successful open source projects Benchmarks aren't the only test Kindle owner on her continuing love of 'real' books WEBCAST: NeuStar, Inc. Load Testing: Best Practices to Ensure Holiday Success The holidays drive more traffic to your website and have great revenue potential, but have you done everything you can to make the most of the season? There are only a few months left until the rush begins. Making sure you site is ready requires planning and testing – starting now. View Now Oh Snap! Consumer Watchdog kicks Google and CEO Schmidt HARD! Picture a 540-square-foot animated ad, a cartoon video mocking Google's CEO Eric Schmidt; now picture it running twice an hour, 36 times per day, in New York's Times Square. Consumer Watchdog has launched a huge and very public campaign against Google, highlighting its concerns over Google's privacy policies and the need for Congress to enact a national 'Do Not Track Me' list. Read More About that "new research" that says CEOs got rich by firing workers... It was a made-for-viral-Internet-meme: a report issued just before Labor Day, with the title "CEO Pay and the Great Recession", from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), complete with an illustration of a tophat-and-tails CEO brandishing a $12 million check "for laying off >3,000 workers."After that, you didn't really have to read it. And judging from the firestorm of media coverage, not to mention... Read More Are Web Browsers Going the Way of the Dinosaur? In the August issue of Wired Magazine, there is an interesting article "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet" which looks at the issue of no longer needing a web browser to interact on the Internet. Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Ironport Systems All Clouds Are Not Created Equal Join this webcast for a tactical session that breaks down cloud computing, addresses concerns around control and reliability, and addresses one of the popular uses of cloud services today: email security. Learn More Open Source: No one is working for free People continue to wonder how to make money in the free and open source software world. It's dressed up in discussions of how one makes money when you give away the software for free, or why developers are working for free. It can likewise lead to a management backlash of not contributing to FOSS projects because some think their developers are working on FOSS instead of their own work. Read More How to get tough with your tech vendors InfoWorld's guide to driving a hard, smart IT bargain in a tough economy. Read More 'Hello Kettle? This is Pot. You're black.' VMware CEO notes irony of Microsoft warning of vendor lock-in. Read More WEBCAST: Infoblox Learn 4 Concepts to Network Automation Join this webinar to learn where to start introducing network automation into your organization so you can: • Address Hidden IT Costs • Support Key Initiatives • Achieve Operational Optimization • Apply IT Resources More Strategically View Now! What Apple has in common with successful open source projects Matt Asay hit on a fundamental - and often overlooked - point in his GigaOm post the other day: Apple is able to conquer markets by ignoring the concept of the faceless, generic "market" and instead concentrating on winning the hearts and minds of individual users. Read More Benchmarks aren't the only test One thing that's no joke in IT is testing applications. It's something that gets overlooked so often and when it is done, it's not done right. Read More Kindle owner on her continuing love of 'real' books Slate today has an anti-Kindle rant from a 26-year-old fellow and I must say that I found his reasoning not all that compelling. However, a comment on the piece from a Kindle owner does fit nicely into my own thinking about the future of print, so I thought I'd share it with you here. Read More
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