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	Cisco study finds young 'uns need Internet to live One-third of college students and young professionals consider the Internet to be a vital daily resource and requirement, just like air, water, food and shelter, according to a new Cisco study. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP HP Networking Portfolio for K12 Schools HP offers schools a means of achieving these goals by providing an alternative to low-performance, multi-tiered network designs that are built on legacy platforms and hampered by high cost and complexity. Read Now! In this Issue Survey: Tell us about how certifications help your career Next-gen boot spec could forever lock Linux off Windows 8 PCs FIB No. 1—Factoids from the Future Microsoft Hyper-V and Cisco Nexus 1000V: A Proverbial Win-Win An Open Letter To The Information Security Industry: We Live In Amazing Times WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Survey: Tell us about how certifications help your career Do you have any certifications and if so, how have they boosted your career? Please take our five minute, confidential survey and let us know. Read More WEBCAST: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Saving cloud computing users from evil doers This video panel discussion delves into IT's current and future security threats. Topics include web application security, vulnerabilities, threats and mitigation/defense strategies, and tactics with individual perspectives on the magnitude and direction of threats. Learn more Next-gen boot spec could forever lock Linux off Windows 8 PCs Windows 8's super-fast boot times come from the UEFI spec that, when used in secure mode, prevents users from loading operating systems and drivers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Taming the Cloud This whitepaper explores the components of the cloud computing ecosystem, demonstrates how Akamai is delivering services for cloud optimization, and looks forward into the evolution of this dynamic and growing market. Read now FIB No. 1—Factoids from the Future Introducing the FIB Wire blog, Network World's version of The Onion. We know our readers like to smile and so we bring you a blog filled with network industry humor to tickle your funny bone. Read More Microsoft Hyper-V and Cisco Nexus 1000V: A Proverbial Win-Win Cisco and Microsoft made a fairly significant announcement this week around Windows 8, Hyper-V, and Nexus 1000V. Why did I use the word "significant" here? Read More An Open Letter To The Information Security Industry: We Live In Amazing Times I just returned home from the UNITED Security Summit in San Francisco. Besides speaking myself at the show I had a chance to sit in on some great presentations by some familiar and some not so familiar (to me anyway) folks. While overall the tracks were great, one theme that was pretty constant was the pessimism in general about the security industry. The feeling was we are losing the battle, nothing is changing and without "radical change" we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes and failures. Read More
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