Microsoft kicks off Tech-Ed with license & virtualization upgrades

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	Microsoft kicks off Tech-Ed with license and virtualization upgrades Microsoft opened its latest Tech-Ed conference by announcing better virtualization support for Exchange 2010, new licensing options for cloud deployments, and information about customers and partners using and supporting Hyper-V.  Customers HSBC and Travelocity are among the big names using Microsoft's virtualization software, while NetApp and Cisco have joined a partner program Microsoft designed... Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More In this Issue A quick guide to "4G" phones Everything's a scam and you're all out to get me John Chambers on the network A Couple of Interesting Uses of OpenFlow RIM recalls about 1,000 PlayBook tablets VMware acquires Shavlik to boost SMB offerings Mozilla details plans to kill Firefox 3.5 Microsoft's open source love-in expands with CentOS Linux support Thanks to ID thieves, your child may have more debt than you WHITE PAPER: HP 6 Key Dedupe Challenges The deduplication market is the fastest segment ofthe storage industry, per IDC. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today! A quick guide to "4G" phones Figuring out what's what with the oft-confusing "4G" label Read More Everything's a scam and you're all out to get me Salon editor Sarah Hepola has written an excruciatingly candid account of her having been snookered by an Internet scam. Read More John Chambers on the network The network is more important today than at any time in history.  In the last 25 years it has had a transformative effect on the way we all live, work, learn and play but I believe it will deliver even greater change in the next decade than it has in the last quarter century. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0 Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now! A Couple of Interesting Uses of OpenFlow At the beginning of Interop, I wrote a post that introduced the basics of OpenFlow. I promised to ask around and find out what problems different vendors are trying to solve using OpenFlow. This post highlights two cases: one you can order today from NEC America, and the other a case that's been tested at Stanford. NEC America's ProgrammableFlow Switch Read More RIM recalls about 1,000 PlayBook tablets Research in Motion said it has recalled an estimated 1,000 PlayBook tablets, indicating a small number had reached customers who were unable to properly load software at setup. Read More VMware acquires Shavlik to boost SMB offerings VMware has entered into an agreement to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a company that develops traditional and cloud-based management products for small and medium-sized businesses, helping them to manage, monitor and secure both physical and virtual environments, the two companies said on Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more! Mozilla details plans to kill Firefox 3.5 Mozilla plans to push 12 million users of the aged Firefox 3.5 to a newer version next month by taking the unprecedented step of automatically upgrading their browser. Read More Microsoft's open source love-in expands with CentOS Linux support First, Microsoft submitted source code to the Linux kernel. Read More Thanks to ID thieves, your child may have more debt than you Did you know that while you may still be considering a name for your precious bundle of joy, someone may have already stolen your unborn babies identity and racked up thousands in debt? Thanks to software which predicts social security numbers, identity thieves can steal a baby's social security number before the child is even born. In fact, if you have or will have any children who were born before... Read More
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