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	Enterasys wants you to friend and Tweet with your switches and routers Enterasys this week rolled out software that allows network admins to access its management system via social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Salesforce.com's Chatter. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Service-Now Modern Software for the CIO Watch this video and see how CIOs benefit from a single system of record for all IT processes. ServiceNow develops, implements and supports a suite of on-demand IT service management solutions offered as a service via the Internet (Software as a Service/SaaS). Click to continue In this Issue No news is good news on World IPv6 Day The top hidden features in Windows 8 Epic innovation smackdown: Steve Jobs vs. Steve Wozniack Follow Network World on Twitter Desktop virtualization: niche solution, or new desktop standard? Cisco's forecasts coming up short? AT&T researchers call for smartphone apps that won't suck your battery dry How the Apple iCloud compares to Google's cloud HP, Microsoft take joint aim at Oracle Google Doodle honoring Les Paul lets you do the pickin' WHITE PAPER: BMC Three Steps to Effective Cloud Planning & Design Before you build your cloud, there are many considerations. Are there security requirements? Compliance rules? Will you use public cloud resources as well? Learn more about how to plan a cloud effectively – from defining requirements to identifying the costs - in this compelling white paper from BMC Software. Read More Today No news is good news on World IPv6 Day World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour trial of next-generation Internet services, went as smoothly as participating websites had hoped, sparking comparisons to the dawn of the new millennium passing without any Y2K-related incidents. Read More The top hidden features in Windows 8 Windows 8 is coming in 2012; here's an early look at some major new features and areas of improvement. Read More Epic innovation smackdown: Steve Jobs vs. Steve Wozniack Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack founded Apple in 1976. Now they find themselves in Network World's Thunderdome. Vote now! Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Six Advantages of a Cloud-Based Help Desk Small and midsize companies shouldn't have to use less efficient, limited-functionality service desk solutions. Today's cloud-based help desks pack the same punch as on-premise enterprise solutions, without a large up-front investment or long installation time. Read more to find out how to get started with a cloud-based help desk today. Read More Today! Follow Network World on Twitter Stay on top of key network developments by following Network World's main Twitter account. Read More Desktop virtualization: niche solution, or new desktop standard? Desktop virtualization promises to simplify management, increase efficiency and improve security, but it doesn't come cheap and requires a big rethink. Will the latter forever relegate desktop virtualization to a few corners of the enterprise, or will the allure of the former convince corporations it is time to start from scratch? Our experts debate. Read More Cisco's forecasts coming up short? Are Cisco's Internet projections too bearish? That's what a blogger at MarketWatch believes based on his own analysis of... Cisco's predictions from years past. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Distributed Virtualization Management from Big Iron Many enterprises started virtualization efforts to reap the benefits of consolidating their distributed infrastructure. This consolidation, however, has not ended datacenter infrastructure heterogeneity since enterprises seem intent on acquiring different virtualization platforms as well as heterogeneous hardware platforms. Read Now AT&T researchers call for smartphone apps that won't suck your battery dry Who doesn't love Pandora Radio? But listening to it on my Android phone is the fastest way to kill the battery - and what good is a mobile phone if it has to be constantly plugged in? Read More How the Apple iCloud compares to Google's cloud Apple and Google now dominate the world's smartphone and mobile device markets and both are now pushing quickly into the cloud. While Apple this week finally acknowledged the cloud as the future of computing -- and will finally allow iPads and iPhones to be set up and backed up without being tethered to a computer running iTunes -- many Google fans accurately note that Apple's iCloud doesn't bring a lot of new features to the table. Read More HP, Microsoft take joint aim at Oracle Hewlett-Packard says that its customers run more Oracle databases and applications on HP hardware than any other vendor out there. But if you are at HP's big user conference this week and interested in talking to Oracle, you wont find the company listed as an exhibitor on the expo floor. Read More Google Doodle honoring Les Paul lets you do the pickin' Prior to this morning, all I knew about Les Paul was that his parents had the foresight to bestow upon him the full name of Guitar Legend Les Paul. Now I know a bit more thanks to today's Google Doodle, which not only honors Paul on what would have been his 96th birthday (he died in 2009) but it also allows anyone so inclined to play, record and share their own guitar solos. Read More
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