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	Why aren't Cisco software updates free? HP, Microsoft, and other are offering free updates to purchased and embedded software. Why not Cisco? Why aren't Cisco software updates free? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011 IT Roadmap is all new for 2011! Maximize your learning in one day: IT Roadmap visits 7 cities in 2011 with a more streamlined agenda; more high-priority IT topics and trends; top industry analysts; experienced end users and leading technology providers. It's one day packed with everything you need to know to make the best IT decisions for your enterprise for the year ahead. Visit the new ITR website In this Issue It's Time For A New Name for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Really? Dropping a phone in a urinal will sell Windows Phone 7? Yahoo's puzzling beta release strips calendar out of e-mail "First-person shooters" steal early jump on "Call of Duty: Black Ops" Tell Us about Your APM Practices--Get a $5 Starbucks Card Google and Apple Are Smart, Microsoft Is Dumb Is SQLCLR Trustworthy? WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Diagnosing the Cause of Poor Application Performance When troubleshooting application performance issues, there are two steps you can take. First, understand the common causes and, second, use the right tool to diagnose them. Read about these common causes and learn about using the right diagnostic tool to quickly identify and resolve a problem. Read now! It's Time For A New Name for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) DLP is slowly morphing from a security policy enforcement point to a more holistic technology for data governance. In other words, this is an enterprise domain (i.e. consulting, distributed architecture, central command-and-control, etc.) not a tactical security domain. As such, the term DLP minimizes the technology value and no longer accurately describes what the technology does. Read More Really? Dropping a phone in a urinal will sell Windows Phone 7? I saw this ad for Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 over the weekend and was appalled. And this is from someone who was thinking I'd add Windows Phone 7 devices to my short list, if I hear some positive reviews on them from Network World's Cool Tools columnist Keith Shaw. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7 This document provides guidelines for configuring a standard Windows 7 image to be used within a VMware View™ environment. Learn More Now. Yahoo's puzzling beta release strips calendar out of e-mail Yahoo Mail's big effort to stop the momentum of Google's Gmail and Microsoft's Hotmail has succeeded in annoying its own users. Read More "First-person shooters" steal early jump on "Call of Duty: Black Ops" It's the type of story that might smack of publicity stunt were it not for the semiautomatic handguns and terrified customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Understanding Advanced Data Compression This White Paper describes how F5's BIG-IP WAN Optimization Module and TDR technology improves application performance. Read now! Tell Us about Your APM Practices--Get a $5 Starbucks Card We are working with Network World to survey enterprises about their application performance management practices. We will assess the effect good practices have on improving performance outcomes, and we will write the results up in a Network World article. We want your input -- and to entice you to participate, we are offering a free Starbucks' gift card to the first 100 survey participants. Read More Google and Apple Are Smart, Microsoft Is Dumb Is Microsoft making the wrong bet? Read More Is SQLCLR Trustworthy? When the support for .Net code arrived in SQL Server 2005 SQLCLR there were many experienced DBA's expressing the thought "Not on my watch!" Microsoft listened and disabled the option by default when released in November 2005. Everyone calmed down at that point. But still, do we want developers coding Stored Procedures in our precious Database using languages we know little or nothing about? 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 The Google Android Quiz Android OS, with its openness, readily developed applications and flexibility has anchored a new wave of mobile devices that are rapidly gaining popularity. Here's a quiz about the operating system, its devices and history to see how well you really know it. Keep score and rank yourself at the end. 25 hot products from new IT companies Network World's 25 New IT Companies to Watch are building a broad array of new IT products for the cloud computing and virtualization age. Here's a look at the 25 new IT companies and the technologies they're offering. MOST-READ STORIES Hackers break Microsoft's Kinect security Windows 1.0 turning 25: First experiences recalled Microsoft Windows after 25 years: A visual history U.S. wants upper hand in battling high-tech bad guys Cisco bets state-of-the-art data center on UCS President Obama: offshoring fears are outdated, unwarranted Microsoft crafts shrewd apps plan for Windows Phone 7 launch All Windows 7 customers should consider desktop virtualization IT's biggest money wasters VoIP services losing ground
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