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	Corporate executives are missing the real lesson of Anonymous Anonymous has run up quite a score against corporations, governments and law enforcement agencies, but for all these warnings corporate executives are turning their heads from the real problem -- their network security is terrible, a panel of experts concluded at Defcon. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Social Media and the Contact Center for Dummies Grasp the opportunities and challenges of working within the new social media market landscape. The book describes the commercial tools, as well as free ones, organizations use to manage the massive stream of information they collect from various social media channels. Read Now In this Issue 16 milestones of a million, a billion or more… from just the past month WiMAX is Dead Amazon Web Services reports outage in the U.S. late Monday IBM, NCSA abandon petascale supercomputer project Verizon strike signals shift in telecom business Sony London optical disc warehouse destroyed in fire VMware preparing data loss prevention features for vShield A conversation with John McAdam of F5 Networks Make mine modular: The rise of prefab data centers Microsoft's Push Back Against Spammers How Cloud Computing Will Change IT: 6 New Predictions WHITE PAPER: F5 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers, 2010 The market for ADCs is consolidating. However, innovation continues, especially among some select smaller players. Although there are clear leaders in the ADC market, enterprises should focus their buying decisions on a vendor's ability to support specific application requirements. Learn more! 16 milestones of a million, a billion or more… from just the past month Ranging from the run-of-the-mill million to an astonishing 15 billion. Read More WiMAX is Dead Clearwire's recent (and completely unsurprising) announcement that the firm is going with LTE is the final nail in mobile WiMAX's coffin. Read More Amazon Web Services reports outage in the U.S. late Monday Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia had connectivity issues late Monday, knocking off temporarily a number of websites and services that use Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing infrastructure. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Service Assurance Defined This Forrester paper explains the concept of service assurance and highlights how it can address fundamental issues around managing application performance and business services. Learn More IBM, NCSA abandon petascale supercomputer project Citing unforeseen complexities and greater-than-anticipated costs, IBM and the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have abandoned plans to build a petaflop-speed supercomputer, the two organizations said Monday. Read More Verizon strike signals shift in telecom business Two unions representing Verizon's wireline workers call a strike as the company shifts away from traditional telephone service. Read More Sony London optical disc warehouse destroyed in fire Sony's main optical disc distribution warehouse for the U.K. was hit by a large fire on Tuesday morning that has apparently destroyed most or all of the building. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Ensuring Reliable Service Delivery Learn how integrating infrastructure management tools with existing application performance management solutions will allow IT to promote holistic management that spans silos. Read Now VMware preparing data loss prevention features for vShield At the upcoming VMworld conference, VMware plans to highlight new data-loss prevention capabilities in an updated version of its virtual system security product, vShield. Read More A conversation with John McAdam of F5 Networks I am going to continue my series of conversations with industry CEOs and today we have John McAdam of F5 Networks. Read More Make mine modular: The rise of prefab data centers When John Campbell talks about Purdue University's soon-to-be implemented modular data center, he can hardly hide his enthusiasm. Read More Microsoft's Push Back Against Spammers It's fashionable to beat up Microsoft as the gang that can't shoot straight. The willingness of the press and individuals alike to fall for the "IE users are dumb" scam is a great example of this. Read More How Cloud Computing Will Change IT: 6 New Predictions CIO.com's Virtualization and Cloud blogger Bernard Golden presents a clear picture of what the IT world will look like when cloud computing becomes the status quo. The future of IT has never looked more promising. Read More
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