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	How CIOs spend their time CIOs today spend a lot more time managing relationships than diving into technical work. In fact, non-technical work consumes 77% of CIOs' time, according to new survey data from the Society for Information Management (SIM). Read More WHITE PAPER: CommVault Mitigating Risks of Cloud Technology Cloud computing can, in fact, be a risky proposition. Check out this white paper to learn how to ensure your organization's safety while harnessing all the benefits of the cloud. Read Now In this Issue Cisco memo slams HP strategy Steve Jobs and Life in the Shadow of Death Is Samsung/Google launch delay related to Jobs' death? My Memories of Steve Jobs More Proof that Security is Impossible The new Cisco WAAS Appliances, a game changer? Oracle snub of Benioff: Petty or just incompetent? Red Hat Pays 136 Million To Enter Cloud Storage Space. Why? The iPhone 5 Announcement – What Went Wrong Can Hotmail Revamp Win Back GMail Defectors? IBM is creating awareness in a very cool way The best picture of a high-tech car with big ears you'll see this year WHITE PAPER: Citrix Consolidation without Compromise Pay more to get less consolidation? The Iron Age is over. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation. For less. Get Consolidation Without Compromise now. Read more Cisco memo slams HP strategy Cisco is gearing up its sales force to exploit the turmoil currently enveloping rival HP. Cisco sales EVP Rob Lloyd apparently circulated an eight-page internal memo detailing what Cisco views as the impact of HP exiting the tablet, smartphone and PC businesses on the company. Read More Steve Jobs and Life in the Shadow of Death Six years ago, standing in the warm California sun on June 12, 2005, Apple co-founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs spoke to the graduating class of Stanford University. It was a spare and deceptively simple speech "about three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories." Read More Is Samsung/Google launch delay related to Jobs' death? Samsung and Google have cancelled major product unveilings planned for next Tuesday - the Samsung Nexus Prime phone and Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system - and while the companies are not being clear as to why, it would appear related to the death of Steve Jobs. Read More My Memories of Steve Jobs I wasn't looking forward to this day, but after certain pictures, I knew it was coming. The world has lost one of the most significant figures of the last century. Everyone will write their tributes. This is mine. 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 More Proof that Security is Impossible Last week's Interop New York conference, as is always the case, featured a number of very interesting discussions of wireless and mobile security, including an excellent "deep dive" in the form of Lisa Phifer's overview of best practices for WLAN security. Bottom line: nothing's perfect, but we've got really good tools and strategies available today. Read More The new Cisco WAAS Appliances, a game changer? Everyone has been waiting to see my reaction to the next generation Cisco WAAS appliances that were announced at Interop. Could these be the game changers that Cisco needs to compete with Riverbed and also stop losing deals to Blue Coat and Certeon? Read More Oracle snub of Benioff: Petty or just incompetent? There's no mistaking Marc Benioff's opinion: The Salesforce.com CEO believes he was booted from a 10:30 a.m. keynote spot today at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 by the shod foot of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Read More Red Hat Pays 136 Million To Enter Cloud Storage Space. Why? As my Network World editor Julie Bort covered earlier this week, Red Hat made their first (and being it is October, maybe their only) acquisition of the year this week by buying Silicon Valley based, scale out storage vendor Gluster. Gluster develops the GlusterFS file system and the Gluster open source project. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC 5 steps from Scheduler to Enterprise Workload Automation A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT's ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service. Learn More! The iPhone 5 Announcement – What Went Wrong Despite spending most of yesterday on the bus making my way to Interop New York, I kept my Android phone glued to anything I could find on what turned out to be the iPhone 4S announcement. Read More Can Hotmail Revamp Win Back GMail Defectors? Microsoft's Hotmail has been around 15 years, longer than even Google. Some of you may remember it was rendered "HoTMaiL." But it fell victim to a deadly combination of Google momentum that included Gmail and Hotmail becoming a haven for spammers, both for sending it and being able to bombard you with it. Read More IBM is creating awareness in a very cool way "Think" is one of several ways IBM is celebrating its centennial anniversary this year. It is a free exhibit on display at Lincoln Center through October 23, 2011. Read More The best picture of a high-tech car with big ears you'll see this year This is a REAL car whisperer. The so-called MiMi Car is used as a way for Japanese car makers to grab information from attendees of the huge Japanese consumer electronics show, Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC). 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 Steve Jobs narrates "Crazy ones" think different ad in never aired clip Oracle to pay U.S. almost $200 million to resolve false claims lawsuit Steve Jobs at Apple: In pictures Huawei gunning for Cisco in the enterprise Who's who in IPv6: The companies and people leading the way Can Hotmail revamp win back GMail defectors? Windows 8 means no more widgets or start menu Feds want uber cybersecurity compliance standard 'Incremental' iPhone 4S still promises to be big seller Steve Jobs told biographer he knew his time was short
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