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	10 ways to enhance Google+ Google+ has made an impressive debut by signing up more than 25 million users, despite launching as an invite-only beta. Of course, fixes and features get slipped into software prior to official release by its developers, but with Google+ several users have taken it upon themselves to write enhancements in the form of Chrome browser extensions. Here are 10 extensions that provide useful, interesting improvements to the search giant's social-networking site. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Data Security via Desktop Virtualization By centralizing virtual desktops and data, companies can protect sensitive information while giving users more flexibility and choice. Read More In this Issue Juniper, like Cisco, may cut staff Choosing the New CCTRS Instead of CCENT? Really? Researchers' waste management pyramid takes aim at messy computer innards Security rundown for the week ending Sept. 2 FAA slaps $175,000 fine on MIT for batteries that caught fire at FedEx The strategic importance of an ADC IFA: Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 vanishes from IFA booth Disqus, Network World's new commenting platform 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! Juniper, like Cisco, may cut staff Like rival Cisco, Juniper is expected to cut its workforce as spending among key customers declines. Read More Choosing the New CCTRS Instead of CCENT? Really? Cisco announced their three CCT certs last week, all geared towards technicians. CCT has a clear and obvious good core purpose: to certify techs that Cisco dispatches to customer sites. The question that's not so obvious, and frankly will require some time to pass before any of us can see the real answer, is how useful, appealing, and popular CCT will become as a general Cisco career cert. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Performance Metrics and the Cloud Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More Researchers' waste management pyramid takes aim at messy computer innards Johns Hopkins University researchers are thinking green about how to speed up computers and make them last longer. Read More Security rundown for the week ending Sept. 2 A mish-mash of security issues came up this week, everything from how to protect virtualized environments to a system that protects copper in utility sites from robbery and a story about digital certificate thefts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Security and Compliance in the Cloud Discover how to handle today's biggest challenges: coordinating user credentials and identities, controlling unmanaged user devices; and providing security when the datacenter,network and server assets exist in the Cloud. Compliments of Citrix. Read now! FAA slaps $175,000 fine on MIT for batteries that caught fire at FedEx The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today said it would seek a $175,000 civil penalty against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for alleged violations of Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Regulations. Read More The strategic importance of an ADC In our last newsletter we began to discuss the role of the network in supporting cloud computing. We will continue that discussion in this newsletter and we will focus on the topic of how Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) are rapidly becoming a key enabler of cloud computing. Read More IFA: Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 vanishes from IFA booth Video: Just days after introducing it at the consumer electronics show, Samsung yanked the tablet after a court order. Read More Disqus, Network World's new commenting platform You'll notice a new comment platform live on Network World. This is a big change for us as we had previously not required registration for comments. Read More
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