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	Microsoft explains recent hosted e-mail outages Microsoft offered some details about outages that have plagued its hosted e-mail customers in the Americas over the past week. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Server Technology PIPS Equals Improved Accuracy, Lower Costs In a world where power efficiency equals savings, Server Technology's PIPS (per inlet power sensing) solution gives you the information you need to achieve your goals and lower costs. PIPS technology replaces power monitoring at the RPP (Remote Power Panel) in data centers with higher accuracy and lower cost monitoring of each power circuit. Click to continue In this Issue Rambus buying Cryptography Research for $342.5 million Startup rolls out 40G data center switches at Interop Unchecked usage can kill cost benefits of cloud services IT pro's perfect game puts him in Putt-Putt record book Interop: Cloud services take a beating in debate over security Microsoft's Skype buy could boost unified communications HP takes swipes at Cisco on Interop stage Juniper: Networks inhibit 'exponential' data center Hot products at Interop 2011 WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Security of Virtualization Divides IT and Security Pros The "2010 State of Enterprise Security Survey - Global Data" report shows that about one-third believe virtualization and cloud computing make security "harder," while one-third said it was "more or less the same," and the remainder said it was "easier." Learn more now. Rambus buying Cryptography Research for $342.5 million Rambus on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire security technology company Cryptography Research (CRI) for US$342.5 million in a cash and stock deal. The move could help the company address interest among chip makers to add security features on hardware. Read More Startup rolls out 40G data center switches at Interop Tucked way in the back corner of the exhibition floor in a tiny cubicle, Gnodal Limited, a startup data center switch vendor from Bristol, U.K., unveiled its initial Ethernet offerings at Interop 2011 this week. Read More Unchecked usage can kill cost benefits of cloud services The touted cost savings associated with cloud services didn't pan out for Ernie Neuman, not because the savings weren't real, but because the use of the service got out of hand. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 5 Key Virtual-Machine Management Questions In these articles, Network World and its sister publication, CIO, explore the flattening of the data center and take a look at the issue from the security and systems perspectives, as well. Read now! IT pro's perfect game puts him in Putt-Putt record book Rick Baird, a 53-year-old IT manager at Brady Distributing in Charlotte, N.C., recently accomplished a feat seen only twice in 52 years (and not once since 1979): a perfect round of Putt-Putt golf -- 18 holes, 18 shots. Read More Interop: Cloud services take a beating in debate over security Cloud services are not secure enough for businesses to use, or at least that was the conclusion drawn by attendees of an Interop debate, although all of the participants acknowledged the real answer was more subtle. Read More Microsoft's Skype buy could boost unified communications Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype could profoundly influence a set of collaboration and conferencing technologies called Unified Communications that have taken years to catch on, analysts said. Read More WEBCAST: Brocade Communications Inc. Ethernet Fabric for the Cloud Webcast Discover how your company can optimize its investments in virtualization and cloud technologies. A new webcast reveals why IDC analysts believe a fabric-based network infrastructures are the cornerstone of a more efficient, cost-effective data center network. Learn more! HP takes swipes at Cisco on Interop stage It's not often HP and Cisco share the same stage during a keynote address. But today at Interop that's exactly what they did -- and HP didn't share the stage nicely. Read More Juniper: Networks inhibit 'exponential' data center Current networks inhibit large-scale data centers, which require new fabric architectures, a Juniper official said during his keynote address at the Interop conference today. Read More Hot products at Interop 2011 Read More
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