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	Black Hat roundup: Let the electric-shock craziness begin Ready to power on next week, the annual Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas promises to be the high-voltage event it has been in the past where security experts tear apart any naïve hope that there's really anything secure at all that was ever made by the high-tech industry. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies Moving to Office 365, Google Apps, Salesforce or any SaaS? In order to avoid application performance issues and ensure optimal end-user experience, infrastructure directors need to make their VPN "cloud ready." Read now In this Issue 10 essential MySQL tools for admins IBM's classic Selectric turns 50 Sex sells in the domain name game Carriers, trade groups propose broadband fund Apple's Safari grows faster than Chrome in July I've got a new MPLS lab. Tell me how to play with it Researchers praise Facebook for paying bug bounties Cisco seeks relief from development obligation Alcatel-Lucent gets $70 million in Microsoft patent case How Cloud Computing Will Change IT: 6 New Predictions WHITE PAPER: Splunk Macys.com Achieves 100% Uptime with Splunk Learn how Splunk enabled Macy's to monitor alerts on their systems, proactively resolve abnormalities, and achieve 100% stability during peak holiday shopping seasons. Find out more. 10 essential MySQL tools for admins The MySQL community is a hotbed of free, open source tools to enhance the performance and health of your MySQL systems Read More IBM's classic Selectric turns 50 New U.S. postage stamp honors the Selectric as an icon of design. Read More Sex sells in the domain name game When Jed Clampett's shot missed its intended target, hit the ground and struck oil, we got "The Beverly Hillbillies." Part of what made the story interesting was that old Jed found unexpected riches in something he already owned. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Riverbed Services Platform Feature Brief The enhanced Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance. Learn More Now. Carriers, trade groups propose broadband fund A group of telecom carriers and trade groups proposes broadband subsidies to replace telephone service subsidies. Read More Apple's Safari grows faster than Chrome in July Apple's Safari last month posted its biggest increase ever in usage share, beating perennial champion Chrome in the gain game, Web metrics vendor Net Applications said today. Read More I've got a new MPLS lab. Tell me how to play with it I've just had Christmas in July. I've been given a whole list of lab equipment, so big that naming all the SIPs, SPAs, and line cards, would end up blowing my word count limit for one blog. So I'll just keep it at a high level. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Qwest Cloud-Based Services: On-Demand Access to IT Resources More and more IT leaders are turning to outsourced, cloud computing services to fulfill their growing technology needs—and do more with less. See how you can grow your business with on-demand, scalable applications and cloud-computing infrastructure—and pay only for what you need. Read now! Researchers praise Facebook for paying bug bounties Facebook's move today to follow Google, Mozilla and Hewlett-Packard in offering bounties for bugs got a unanimous thumbs up from security researchers. Read More Cisco seeks relief from development obligation As it navigates some of the darkest waters of its 25+-year voyage, Cisco is looking to back out of a deal to develop 1 million square feet of land in Alviso, CA. The company is pressing San Jose city officials to amend an agreement between it and Cisco to build facilities on the land, just north of San Jose. Read More Alcatel-Lucent gets $70 million in Microsoft patent case Microsoft has been ordered to pay US$70 million to networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent in a years-old patent dispute that at one time could have cost Microsoft $1.5 billion. Read More How Cloud Computing Will Change IT: 6 New Predictions Like Ulysses, many CIOs must inure themselves to the din of tempting Sirens: the vendors who sing a sweet song of painless cloud transformation, made possible by the purchase of some software, or hardware, or a set of cloud services. Read More
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