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	VMTurbo adds virtualization management freebie As IT managers well know, a reporting tool is only as good as the information it delivers. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Why CIOs still embrace RISC/UNIX Forrester conducted in-depth interviews with senior IT operations executives to determine if UNIX delivers high value to current and future users who have requirements that place significant weight on the historical strengths of a RISC/UNIX environment, including reliability, scalability and security. Read now In this Issue Cloud drives Cisco to open source Can social networking save students from failing in school? Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz gets $11.9 million after 75% pay cut Business, IT collaboration drives new BI system at Toyota How to use a known IPv6 hole to fast freeze a Windows Network BES to get iOS, Android management features How should you redesign your data center LAN? Microsoft issues first Windows Phone security update Controlling the subversive spreadsheet CopperEgg peels back shell on NAS performance WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now! Cloud drives Cisco to open source There's an interesting post on GigaOm this week on how cloud computing is forcing Cisco to embrace open source. It argues that Cisco realizes open source software will be critical to its success in cloud due to the emphasis on application development. Read More Can social networking save students from failing in school? Carnegie Mellon University educators have created an app inspired by social network sites like Twitter and Facebook that is designed to bring students together to improve learning. Read More Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz gets $11.9 million after 75% pay cut Carol Bartz's compensation was slashed by 75% in 2010, but the Yahoo CEO still managed to take home a hefty $11.9 million pay package. A year earlier, Bartz received compensation valued at $47.2 million. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Lab to Live: Smooth Virtualization Transitions Join this webcast, Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT, to learn the best practices for post implementation of virtualized servers in your environment. Discover what challenges to look out for and how to prepare to avoid pitfalls ensuring total protection for your systems, applications and data. Learn More Business, IT collaboration drives new BI system at Toyota A business intelligence project at Toyota Motors challenges a growing perception that IT organizations are no longer able to keep up with the BI demands of their business units. Read More How to use a known IPv6 hole to fast freeze a Windows Network At last week's Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit in Denver, Ed Horley began his talk about IPv6 in Windows networks by warning attendees about a dangerous DoS vulnerability that Microsoft has so far shown no interest in fixing. Read More BES to get iOS, Android management features BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has extended its reach in the mobile-device-management (MDM) space with the acquisition of a German software company ubitexx, maker of the ubi-Suite device management software. 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 How should you redesign your data center LAN? The last few newsletters have discussed LAN design in general and data center LAN design in particular. This newsletter will discuss an RFI for data center LAN switching. Read More Microsoft issues first Windows Phone security update Microsoft has released the first security update for Windows Phone 7, replicating for smartphone users a patch the company gave Windows desktop users six weeks ago. Read More Controlling the subversive spreadsheet Spreadsheets are the ubiquitous Swiss Army knife of corporate computing. Since VisiCalc put the Apple II on corporate desks in the early 1980s, and Lotus 1-2-3 did the same for the IBM PC, it has become impossible to imagine a corporate IT network without a spreadsheet. Indeed it's almost impossible to buy a PC that doesn't ship with spreadsheet software of some sort. Read More CopperEgg peels back shell on NAS performance Performance analysis should be left to the protocol experts -- that is the belief of many, but it isn't necessarily true. The performance analysis of network-attached storage (NAS) systems running the Network File System (NFS) can be intimidating except for a new service from CopperEgg called RevealStorage, which is targeted for use by IT managers and sysadmins. Read More
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