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	Must-have data center utilities: Picks by IT pros Not everything is handed to data center managers on a silver platter. Sure, a few administrative tools arrive on freshly produced discs right from the server vendor. But there are some indispensable tools you can get from third parties, open-source providers or even IT colleagues with some extra time to develop apps. 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! In this Issue Five Things We Love and Five Things We Hate about Ubuntu 11.04 Survey finds many disappointed in virtualization, cloud computing Happy 100th birthday, IBM! Is it time for RSA to open up about SecurID hack? Four Ways the Red Sox are Scoring with SharePoint IPv6 Day only a beginning, researchers say Daily innovation smackdown: Vint Cerf vs. Linus Torvalds IMF is victim of 'sophisticated cyberattack,' says report Inside HP's prefab data center WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now! Five Things We Love and Five Things We Hate about Ubuntu 11.04 Read More Survey finds many disappointed in virtualization, cloud computing Too often, organizations aren't getting as much out of virtualization and hybrid cloud computing as they first thought they would, according to a Symantec survey of 3,700 information technology managers in 35 countries that was published today. Read More Happy 100th birthday, IBM! IBM will celebrate its centennial anniversary this week by having up to 400,000 employees worldwide skip the usual office work in order to donate time to charitable causes and schools. 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! Is it time for RSA to open up about SecurID hack? For any company that makes its living selling security, it's a nightmare come true. This week, RSA Security admitted that hackers who broke into its network three months ago had stolen information about its SecurID tokens and then used that information to attack a customer, Lockheed Martin. Read More Four Ways the Red Sox are Scoring with SharePoint The Boston Red Sox IT group had been left stranded on base by manual processes that handled ticket requests, invoices and fan mail. But now that they've built an intranet portal using SharePoint 2010 they're speeding towards home. Read More IPv6 Day only a beginning, researchers say World IPv6 Day boosted the amount of native IPv6 traffic on the Internet, but it mostly increased the use of transitional protocols that won't help to solve the looming shortage of IPv4 addresses, according to researchers studying data from Wednesday's event. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Importance of Permanent Link Testing This white paper is the joint effort of 2 industry leaders of high speed infrastructure cabling and testing, Panduit and Fluke Networks. This technical paper provides a thorough analysis and review of different testing techniques and their associated benefits for high speed permanent links. Learn More Today! Daily innovation smackdown: Vint Cerf vs. Linus Torvalds We are now down to the Elite Eight. In a contest to get into the semifinals, two heavyweights square off in Vint Cerf and Linus Torvalds. Cerf took down the mighty Bill Gates in the last round while Torvalds pushed Google's Eric Schmidt to the background as well. Only one can move on. Vote now! Read More IMF is victim of 'sophisticated cyberattack,' says report The International Monetary Fund has reportedly been hit with a "large and sophisticated cyberattack" that potentially puts sensitive, confidential data about national economies at risk of exposure. Read More Inside HP's prefab data center Hewlett-Packard had a cutout section of its modular data center on display at its user conference last week in Las Vegas. HP believes it will sell a lot of its EcoPODs as companies look for ways to replenish data center capacity. Read More
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