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	BlackBerry outage hits U.S. The BlackBerry outage that started Monday in Europe, the Middle East and Africa has now spread to North America. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. CISCO: A New Age in Video Content Video has become essential to business collaboration. Enterprises need video technologies that enable you to create and view rich, meaningful content with ease. Join Cisco on Thursday, Oct 20 at 9am PST and learn how your network can easily capture, transform, and share live or on-demand video with an audience of thousands via any video device. Register Now! In this Issue Peer-to-peer update to Zeus Trojan spells new trouble NASA's 7 wicked cool crop-circle corn mazes 7 key skills new IT grads are lacking Apple delivers iOS 5, upgrades Lion Making iPads Enterprise Ready Why… delays… in… video calls just might be good for you Coalition targets US broadband adoption gap Sony suspends 93,000 online accounts after illicit logins IBM to sell global data migration engine, NAS/iSCSI SAN LogRhythm Takes SIEM To The Next Level Defective diamonds could be quantum computing's best friend Farmville games developer announces a new play service and games for Facebook and Google Plus Cloud Computing: 3 Tips for Overcoming Implementation Anxiety WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Streamline Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions To succeed and thrive, today's organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions. Read More Peer-to-peer update to Zeus Trojan spells new trouble The Zeus financial malware has been updated with P-to-P (peer-to-peer) functionality that makes it much more resilient to take-down efforts and gives its controllers flexibility in how they run their fraud operations. Read More NASA's 7 wicked cool crop-circle corn mazes NASA, seven space farms team to build out-of-this world corn mazes Read More 7 key skills new IT grads are lacking Greg Taffet is scouting for talent. Read More Apple delivers iOS 5, upgrades Lion Apple today shipped the long-awaited upgrades to its mobile and Mac operating systems that provide, among other things, access to the new iCloud service. As expected, both iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10.7.2 went live on Apple's download servers at approximately 1 p.m. ET. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle: The Database of Choice for Deploying SAP Solutions This white paper describes the most important features supported by SAP and shows the main differentiators between the Oracle Database and DB2 and SQL Server, as well as major new features like advanced compression, Oracle cloud file system, real application testing, and online patching. Learn more! Making iPads Enterprise Ready Apple has unwittingly become an enterprise player, says Edward ­Marczak, author and executive editor of MacTech magazine. The company is leading the trend toward IT consumerization as users become attached to their iPads and iPhones and IT administrators try to incorporate the devices into existing corporate technology infrastructures. Read More Why… delays… in… video calls just might be good for you The next time you're on a Google+ hangout or other video call, relish any computer- or network-based communications delays between you and the other participant. After all, such seemingly awkward and frustrating silences can actually enhance the conversation, according to research out of Ohio State University. Read More Coalition targets US broadband adoption gap A coalition of IT vendors, online companies and nonprofit organizations have launched a wide-ranging program to drive up broadband adoption in the U.S. and train residents in tech skills in an effort to cut unemployment and spur economic growth. Read More Sony suspends 93,000 online accounts after illicit logins Sony has suspended 93,000 user accounts on several of its gaming and entertainment networks after unauthorized login attempts on those accounts, it said Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Order from Chaos with Data Center Automation These days, IT needs to deliver multiple services in an increasingly complex infrastructure. Data center automation helps, but can be limited by silos. The solution? A pragmatic data center automation environment that meets the needs of both IT and business users. Learn More! IBM to sell global data migration engine, NAS/iSCSI SAN IBM plans to roll out software on its midrange and high-end clustered storage arrays that allows policy-based migration, backups and data deletion. The company also will announce that its V7000 series array can perform both file- and block-based data transfers. Read More LogRhythm Takes SIEM To The Next Level Last week may have been the all-time high-point for security management with McAfee's acquisition of Nitro Security followed by IBM's purchase of Q1 Labs. Why all of the activity? Security management requirements are rapidly changing, moving away from log filtering and compliance reporting to comprehensive situational awareness and deep analytics. To their credit, McAfee and IBM recognized these... Read More Defective diamonds could be quantum computing's best friend University at Buffalo researchers have gained understanding of defects in diamonds that could be used for applications such as quantum information processing. Quantum computing is an exciting area of research into potentially very fast computers that use quantum mechanics rather than traditional transister-based technology for moving data, in this case dubbed qubits (See: Is Quantum Computing real?)... Read More Farmville games developer announces a new play service and games for Facebook and Google Plus Zynga first launched games like Farmville and and Mafia Wars in 2007 and 2008 for play on Facebook.But the company announced plans to strike out beyond the established social media site and launch its own social share website, called "Project Z." Read More Cloud Computing: 3 Tips for Overcoming Implementation Anxiety The ever-growing number of cloud computing providers, combined with the pressure to select just the right service to prevent catastrophic IT and career failure, prevents many CIOs from moving forward with their cloud computing plans. CIO.com blogger and cloud computing expert Bernard Golden explains how IT leaders can keep their cloud plans moving forward. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 26 helpful open source network management tools Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, configure and map their networked devices. Here are 26 examples of open source network management software tools to help you do your job. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES 2012 IT budgets, salaries on the rise, survey says FBI rolling out nationwide face search and recognition system Microsoft releases service packs galore 5 cloud security companies to watch Father of SSL says security linchpin has lots of life left Watch large hadron collider collisions with an Android app Computer infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes Cell phone subscriptions outnumber people in U.S. Microsoft launches Firefox, Chrome attack campaign More on the Cisco Nexus v2
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