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	QLogic teams with Avaya, fires bullet across FCoE switching landscape QLogic recently announced a new partnership with Avaya to provide its "Bullet" 10Gigabit Ethernet converged network switching technology for Avaya's Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA). Read More WEBCAST: Dell Webcast: Is Virtualization Right for SMBs? You've heard that large companies embrace virtualization to consolidate their data centers, reduce costs, and improve operating efficiency and IT service levels. However, your data center only has tens of servers, not hundreds or thousands. Should you consider virtualization as well? View this webcast to learn more. Register now! In this Issue Seagate ends private-equity buyout talks Carbonite Online Backup: Easy, Inexpensive Salesforce.com gets Amazon cloud replication tool Identity services are key to new applications WHITE PAPER: IBM Optimization Applications in Finance, Securities & Insurance This white paper shows how mathematical optimization provide tools that deliver significant competitive advantage for solving the most challenging problems encountered in finance, including risk management, operational cost, and product innovation. Read Now Seagate ends private-equity buyout talks Seagate Technology has closed off talks on a potential private-equity buyout while saying the hard-disk-drive market has improved. Read More WHITE PAPER: Trend Micro Defending Against Spyware The startling growth and deceptive methods of spyware can be easily attributed to profit motives. Spyware developers make money from the information that their software silently collects from unsuspecting users. Learn how to protect your information. Read More Carbonite Online Backup: Easy, Inexpensive Carbonite (various pricing) is an excellent online backup program/service--once you have it configured. Version 4.0 assuages part of my mild discontent with previous versions by warning you on the very first page that .exe, video, and files over 4GB in size are not automatically selected for backup. Formerly, the lack of this warning meant that there was a real chance that a user might think that their family videos were being backed up while they were not. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Ready to Virtualize Tier-One Apps? Have you been hesitant to virtualize tier-one applications like Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint? Learn how EMC's expertise in applications and virtualization can help you eliminate concerns about these applications being too I/O or CPU intensive or lacking vendor support. EMC can help you get the most out of your virtual environment. Click to Continue Salesforce.com gets Amazon cloud replication tool Salesforce.com customers will be able to more easily mirror their data in real time to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud with a new service announced Wednesday by data-integration vendor Jitterbit. Read More Identity services are key to new applications IT needs to talk about the importance of identity services (represented by the directory in our discussions 10 years ago) to make those new apps viable, efficient and secure. 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. December goodies from the Subnets SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people from Webucator, plus a brand new iPad available from Microsoft Subnet. Five massive libraries on CCNP, security, NX-OS up for grabs on Cisco Subnet. Enter to win! 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 EFF backs red-faced porn watchers vs. copyright trolls Inside the labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010 AT&T goes after copper wire thieves Cisco is expected to lose switching share in 2011 P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN 10 weirdest celebrity tech ads Welcome to Browser War III, brought to you by open source Best networking tweaks for Linux Analyst finds flaws in Canon image verification system
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