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	Happy Tenth Birthday, Windows XP. Now Please Die October 25, 2001. Microsoft could not ask for a worse time to launch a new operating system. The industry was in a free-fall as Dot Coms were dying like bugs in the fall and dragging down big companies like Microsoft, HP, Intel and (especially) Sun along with them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Intel Optimize virtualization with HP & Intel Virtualization has become a powerful enabler for consolidating servers, running applications in multiple operating system environments, simplifying administration and lowering operating costs. This paper describes how to optimize server virtualization using enterprise-class HP Multi-Port Server Adapters and Intel® Ethernet technology. Click to continue In this Issue Why current generation networks just aren't cutting it Linux Foundation wades into Windows 8 secure boot controversy Week 1: Ubuntu Unity instead of Windows 7 and ready to scream Carriers Must Carry – Even Stuff They Don't Like Security Market Boom? My Latest Thoughts on OpenFlow 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Performance Metrics and the Cloud Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information.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 Why current generation networks just aren't cutting it Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Verizon, and others gave numerous, concrete examples where limitations of current gen networking technologies are causing serious business and technology challenges. The common thread: They all see Software Defined Networking as the answer. Read More Linux Foundation wades into Windows 8 secure boot controversy The Linux Foundation today released technical guidance to PC makers on how to implement secure UEFI without locking Linux or other free software off of new Windows 8 machines. The guidance included a subtle tisk-tisk at Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky for suggesting that PC owners won't want to mess with control of their hardware and would happily concede that to operating system makers and hardware manufacturers. Read More WEBCAST: Citrix Get Your Network Cloud Ready Exclusive 2-day webinar shows how to get your network cloud-ready while delivering services with greater security, scalability and flexibility. Featuring Citrix Systems, Andre Kindness from Forrester, and customer success stories, this webinar also features practical demos you don't want to miss! Learn more Week 1: Ubuntu Unity instead of Windows 7 and ready to scream It finally happened. At the end of my first week of using Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity, full-time, 8-10 hours a day for work, the system crashed. I fumbled a few keystrokes, hit some combination of keys and froze LibreOffice Writer. And the whole system locked up. Read More Carriers Must Carry – Even Stuff They Don't Like I hate to side with the Occupy Wall Street crowd, but I must agree with at least one of their points: corporations are not people. They have no Constitutional rights. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Investment Protection and Elasticity for your Network NetScaler Pay-as-You-Grow. 5x capacity on-demand. No new hardware. Investment protection and elasticity for your network. Read more Security Market Boom? It's a gloomy macro economic outlook but the sun happens to be shining in my little domain of information security. Read More My Latest Thoughts on OpenFlow I've been thinking about OpenFlow for a while as it relates to data center networking. What's the use case? What's the enterprise play? What will OpenFlow and SDN do to the networking market? Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 20 high-tech toilets Today's techiest toilets incorporate music players, motion-activated lids, heated seats, washing and drying functions, and more. Take a look. 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 Microsoft claims Hyper-V will leapfrog VMware DARPA offers $50,000 prize if you can figure out these shredded puzzles New Nokia phone name, Lumia, means 'prostitute' in Spanish HP to keep PC division, rejects spin-off idea Cisco rolls out military-strength encryption for ISR router Researchers find "massive" security flaws in cloud architectures Paycheck payoff for IT certs still declining Linux Foundation wades into Windows 8 secure boot controversy Attackers trick Facebook users into exposing secret security codes History of malware: from script kiddies to rootkits
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