Novell: A lament over what could have been

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	Novell: A lament over what could have been Many folks are sad to see Novell being sold off to Attachmate. I have to admit that when I first read this I thought Attachmate was the company that makes those faux leather calendar and appointment systems. But I was wrong. It appears to be a vessel that a bunch of private equity firms are using to amass what looks like random assets in IT. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Securing Virtualized Data Centers Download this HP White Paper to learn how to protect your high value virtual assets with a combination of purpose-built IPS platforms and enterprise-class management solutions. Read Now In this Issue Why any great career move should be known as 'a Schmidt' A week with Windows Phone 7 Is Facebook the new evil Google? Cisco losing more steam in Layer 4-7 Of Coffee Houses and Code Communities If Threatened With Arrest When Recording Video at TSA Checkpoints... The Cold War: Then and now WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Buyers Guide to Data Loss Prevention Solutions This guide provides a list of recommended features and capabilities for buyers to consider when purchasing a DLP solution. Buyers can also use this guide to develop requests for proposals, as well as to help differentiate one vendor's products from another during demonstrations and proof-of-concepts. Read More Why any great career move should be known as 'a Schmidt' Chances are no one today has heard Eric Schmidt muttering under his breath, "Dang, I could have worked at Attachmate." Read More A week with Windows Phone 7 For reasons I cannot understand, I found myself at Union Square in San Francisco on Black Friday. This is unlike me, being one who prefers Christmas shopping at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday when crowds are lightest. But I went to Union Square -- one of the busiest retail centers in the country -- anyway to snap some holiday photos (see above) on a Windows Phone 7 smartphone. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Multi-Site and Campus Area Wireless LANs Discover industry best practices that drive enterprise-class WLAN performance. Review this enlightening Aberdeen study that gives actionable recommendations on how to improve end-to-end network performance and cut multi-location WLAN budgets. Read now! Is Facebook the new evil Google? A few weeks back, I had a blog posting on Facebook and the implications of them being an open source solution, which is relevant to today's blog post. Read More Cisco losing more steam in Layer 4-7 Third quarter Ethernet switching numbers are starting to trickle out and the only surprise might be how fast Cisco is fading in Layer 4-7. Cisco maintained its 72% share of the overall Ethernet switch market and even upped that by 2% from last year. But it's sliding in Layer 4-7. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Virtualizing Network Connections and Capacity Read this whitepaper to learn how HP FlexFabric can provision your network resources efficiently and securely to accelerate deployment of virtualized workloads. Read Now Of Coffee Houses and Code Communities Brian Proffitt has a great article on the difference between communities and crowdsourcing and how companies still often get it wrong with respect to their community building by treating them as a group that will get things done. I came across a good model for this separation of ideas quite by accident. Read More If Threatened With Arrest When Recording Video at TSA Checkpoints... If you are flying and decide to turn on your phone to take video of TSA checkpoints, that is legal as long as you do not film the TSA's monitors, or interfere with or slow down the screening process. However, if you do videotape TSA checkpoints, then you should have the TSA public affairs (TSA's Office of Strategic Communications) number plugged into your phone. Read More The Cold War: Then and now When Dickie George of the National Security Agency says, "This is life and death and about our freedom and our way of life," he's not talking about the Soviet Union firing nuclear missiles at the U.S. or infiltrating our government with spies bent on subversion. He's talking about cyber criminals hacking into personal, business or government computers. Read More
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. Goodies from the Subnets We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one! SLIDESHOWS Top IT Turkeys of 2010 Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on. Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. MOST-READ STORIES WikiLeaks: China was behind Google hack 5 Cyber Monday Web sites for finding great deals Report says Apple iPad 2 to have two cameras, USB port Cisco losing more steam in Layer 4-7 A week with Windows Phone 7 One less thing: Apple bans Steve Jobs doll Comcast outage encourages DIY DNS fix for some Comcast outage hits Boston, East Coast cities 10 amazing Black Friday laptop deals Microsoft Lync 2010 puts the "U" in UC
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