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	HP to keep PC division, rejects spin-off idea HP's newly appointed CEO Meg Whitman categorically rejected a plan offered up by her predecessor, Leo Apotheker, to either sell or spin-off the PC division. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011 IT Roadmap Washington, DC - 12/7 Washington Convention Cntr IT Roadmap Washington, DC will be returning to the Washington Convention Center on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. IT Roadmap is a regional one-day technology event that features a full-day conference program, and an exposition hall with leading technology providers. Click to continue In this Issue Linux Foundation wades into Windows 8 secure boot controversy Researcher finds major flaw in Facebook Paycheck payoff for IT certs still declining Cisco rolls out military-strength encryption for ISR router Cisco, AT&T offer Wi-Fi IPTV Google+ comes to the enterprise via Google Apps Facebook data center project takes aim at vendor lock-in Cisco ASA Upgrade Adds Identity Firewalling Carriers Must Carry – Even Stuff They Don't Like History of malware: from script kiddies to rootkits Stress Management: Better Living Through Technology WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn 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 Researcher finds major flaw in Facebook A security penetration tester discovered a major flaw in Facebook that could allow a person to send anyone on the social-networking site malicious applications. Read More Paycheck payoff for IT certs still declining Wondering whether you'll get a raise or bonus if you earn another IT industry certification? Odds are you won't, according to the latest IT salary data from Foote Partners. Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Building the Intelligent Cloud-Ready Data Center For CIOs today, the challenges are many and often difficult. They must support more revenue generating projects without having to expand, rebuild or move their data centers. Many are turning to virtualization to consolidate resources and make this happen. Learn More! Cisco rolls out military-strength encryption for ISR router Cisco has announced a hardware encryption module for its ISR G2 router that allows point-to-point encryption of IP traffic based on what's called "Suite B," the set of encryption algorithms designated by the National Security Agency for Department of Defense communications. Read More Cisco, AT&T offer Wi-Fi IPTV Cisco this week said it launched a wireless IPTV service with AT&T. Cisco says it is the sole provider of the wireless IPTV system, including receivers and access points, for AT&T's U-verse service. Read More Google+ comes to the enterprise via Google Apps Google announced that its new social networking site is now integrated with Google Apps, its cloud-based office suite. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Achieve Data Center Monitoring Goals CIOs are having success and frustration in efforts to measure, monitor and conserve data center energy use. Read the key findings and implications of this new survey data to learn best practices to track power costs and reduce waste, ensure accurate power consumption reporting, and identify missed opportunities for cost savings. Learn More Facebook data center project takes aim at vendor lock-in By launching the Open Compute Project as a stand-alone foundation, Facebook is hoping to further standardize the market for data center equipment, thereby reducing costs and vendor lock-in, the new foundation's board members said at a press conference Thursday. Read More Cisco ASA Upgrade Adds Identity Firewalling Identity aware firewalling seems to be all the rage right now. Having the ability to make firewall policy decisions based on user and group information from Active Directory can have enormous benefits if used properly. Read More Carriers Must Carry – Even Stuff They Don't Like know that carrier claim a First Amendment right here, and 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 History of malware: from script kiddies to rootkits Bitdefender put together this cool graphic that tracks the history of malware. In the early days, many of the worms were written by so-called script kiddies looking for some recognition. Fast forward to last year, where Stuxnet was written specifically to criple Iranian nuclear facilities -- and as it has now been publically disclosed has become the blueprint for other attacks. Read More Stress Management: Better Living Through Technology IT professionals at all career levels are facing unprecedented levels of stress in their jobs these days. Here's how one high-flying IT executive uses special technology to manage his response to stress, find an inner calm and make better management decisions. Read More
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