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	Red Hat acquires Makara to boost its cloud Julie Bort: Makara's cloud app management tools will be embedded into JBoss 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 Welcome to Browser War III Five reasons to be grumpy about open source in 2010 Best Networking Tweaks for Linux Is Open Source Less Secure? Ubuntu sticking to six-month development cycle Is Facebook the new evil Google? Of Coffee Houses and Code Communities Acer announces three Android tablets and an Android smartphone Android to overtake Symbian next year Samsung Reportedly Sells 600,000 Galaxy Tabs WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Cloud –Inspired Data Center Transformation In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO and Computerworld present the latest thinking and explore the latest trends on how data centers are evolving toward the cloud ideal. Read now! Welcome to Browser War III Alan Shimel: In this version of the browser war, open source is playing the part of the arms dealer, giving all of the combatants the ammunition to fight. The latest combatant is Flock. Read More Five reasons to be grumpy about open source in 2010 Joe Brockmeier: 2010 began Oracle's reign of terror but that's not the only thing that went wrong for open source. Read More Best Networking Tweaks for Linux Michael Adams: Linux is fast, but with these tips and techniques, you can make it faster. Read More PODCAST: Novell Easy as Pie: Migrating from Solaris to Linux Tune in to Rick Ashford, technical specialist for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise, as he gives the lowdown on what you can expect from the process. He also points out that your biggest risk is if you don't migrate to Linux. Find out why now. Is Open Source Less Secure? Alan Shimel: HP Security Evangelist Rafal Los discusses open source security. Read More Ubuntu sticking to six-month development cycle Joe Brockmeier: A story in the Register speculated that Ubuntu would be dropping its six-month development cycle in favor of daily updates. Read More Is Facebook the new evil Google? Stephen Spector: I recently wrote about the implications of Facebook going open source. 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! Of Coffee Houses and Code Communities Stephen Walli: We can learn a lot about successful community building from Starbucks. Read More Acer announces three Android tablets and an Android smartphone Julie Bort: Acer announced an entire blitz of new Android devices, among other goodies like its own app store and media-streaming service. Read More Android to overtake Symbian next year Google Android is set to overtake Symbian next year as the most popular smartphone platform in Europe, says IDC. Read More Samsung Reportedly Sells 600,000 Galaxy Tabs Samsung says it has sold more than 600,000 Galaxy Tab Android tablets worldwide, according to a Korea Herald report. 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 Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010 EFF backs red-faced porn watchers vs. copyright trolls Best networking tweaks for Linux 10 weirdest celebrity tech ads Help those with personal cyberstalking terrorists Inside the labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM WikiLeaks: China was behind Google hack Comcast outage encourages DIY DNS fix for some 10 things we love about Lync 2010 Report says Apple iPad 2 to have two cameras, USB port
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