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	Time to shut down the FCC? It's long past time to scrap the Federal Communications Commission, an agency committed to restraint of trade, oligopolistic business practices, and the dogmatic, self-justifying, and utterly wrong insistence that bandwidth is a scarce commodity. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerate WAN File Transfers by 50x According to Taneja Group research, 83% of IT managers are considering a move to the cloud a top priority. This paper highlights their research and provides guidance on how to overcome cloud adoption barriers and further leverage virtualization and consolidation efforts by strategically deploying WAN optimization. Read now! In this Issue Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010 Best Networking Tweaks for Linux Feds Tracking Americans' Credit Cards in Real-Time Without a Warrant Microsoft lowers Windows hosting prices - but will cloud customers benefit? Billion Dollar Open Source Companies? There Are Lots of Them Are IT Vendors Getting a "Free Pass" On Cyber Security? Welcome to Browser War III, Brought To You By Open Source My Twitter golden rule: Tweet about others as you would like them to tweet about you WHITE PAPER: NetApp Changing the Way You Purchase Storage Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment. Read now! Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010 Maybe it's the post-holiday letdown, but looking back on 2010 I'm not sure the open source community has that much to be grateful for this year. Not only have we missed another year for the Linux desktop, but there's been plenty to gripe about in 2010. Read More Best Networking Tweaks for Linux Linux is fast, but with these tips and techniques, you can make it faster when accessing it over a network connection. 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 Feds Tracking Americans' Credit Cards in Real-Time Without a Warrant Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting court orders for the "hotwatch." Read More Microsoft lowers Windows hosting prices - but will cloud customers benefit? Microsoft is planning to lower Windows Server licensing prices for hosting providers starting Jan. 1. That's great for Microsoft's partners. But will IT shops see any change in their bills? Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Five CIO Challenges Addressed by Better Change Management Addresses five of the foremost change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage. Read More Billion Dollar Open Source Companies? There Are Lots of Them In the year 2011 we will in all likelihood see the first company to reach a billion dollars in revenue with an open source focused model. Read More Are IT Vendors Getting a "Free Pass" On Cyber Security? Many IT vendors virtually ignore security in their product design and development. You should be doing a heck of a lot more security due diligence on IT products, vendors, and services, and institute procurement rules that mandate specific security metrics. Vendors should no longer have security -- or insecurity -- carte blanche. Read More Welcome to Browser War III, Brought To You By Open Source The shots are really flying in Browser War III, the mother of all browser wars. 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. Read More My Twitter golden rule: Tweet about others as you would like them to tweet about you It seems like every industry conference has a Twitter hash tag so even if you are not at the event, you can get a sense of what is going on by following the Twitter stream. I think this is pretty cool, but last week I was at an industry conference where some of the Twitter chatter started to feel like talking behind someone's back. 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 Google caves in Street View 'trespassing' case, pays $1 2010's biggest security SNAFUs Is a next-generation firewall in your future? Microsoft quietly invests in IBM emulator TurboHercules From Pong to Furby, games and gadgets of holidays past So many Androids, so little time Microsoft gains cloud security certification ... six months after Google WikiLeaks.org downed by domain hosting service AVG free update bricks 64-bit Windows 7 PCs Open source IP PBX saves serious cash for Michigan CAT
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