Will Oracle acquire a networking company?

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	Will Oracle acquire a networking company? There is a lot of momentum behind the belief that the future of IT is based on tightly integrating the key components of IT such as networking, servers and storage. In our last newsletter we discussed Oracle's rumored acquisition of EMC. We are going to use the next three newsletters to continue the discussion of Oracle's possible acquisition of EMC and look at what some of the other industry giants are doing. 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 Complexity of IT systems will be our undoing BT Broadband customers suffer second outage in a week Gov't wants ISPs to help remove false information on the web New domain names near milestone WEBCAST: Certeon Virtualize Beyond the Data Center Join independent network expert, Jim Metzler, for an in-depth discussion on the nuances among various virtualized network components, the importance of WAN optimization in a virtual data center and an explanation of how WAN optimization virtual appliances can easily integrate into your environment. Learn More Complexity of IT systems will be our undoing Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch and an expert in software architecture, argues that the increasing complexity of our IT systems will be our undoing. In fact, he just recently got a patent for a methodology that helps deal with complex IT systems. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Sessions to get his take on the extent of the problem and possible solutions. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Configuration Guide for SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 is evolving into a middleware platform spanning from Intranet to cloud while better serving the developer community. This performance and configuration guide will walk you through the many new features of SharePoint 2010, offering sample configurations for both physical and virtual servers Read Now BT Broadband customers suffer second outage in a week Hundreds of Brits have been left without broadband connections following a fault on BT's network. Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Why Enterprise WiFi Belongs in the Cloud Effective management is key to wireless success. Join this live Webcast to hear how cloud-controlled wireless management provides the security, remote administration and reliability resource-constrained IT departments require. See real-world examples of organizations that have successfully deployed enterprise WiFi in the cloud. Learn more now! Gov't wants ISPs to help remove false information on the web The government wants ISPs to help Brits ensure inacurrate or potentially harmful information about themselves is removed from the web. Read More New domain names near milestone Internet policymakers appear to be in the home stretch on a controversial plan to add hundreds of new domain name extensions -- such as .nyc, .africa and .sport -- that could forever alter the e-commerce landscape. Read More
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