25 free open source projects IT pros will love

	Mobile shoppers help drive online sales surge on Thanksgiving | WAN optimization is shifting from strategic to tactical
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	25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder Rich Bowen to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known SourceForge projects he thinks IT folks will love. Here are his picks, along with a few of our own. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Real Cost of Dealing with Carriers What is the TCO for your company's data network services and solutions? If you work with one of the large carriers, it's probably a lot higher than you think. Read Now! In this Issue Mobile shoppers help drive online sales surge on Thanksgiving WAN optimization is shifting from strategic to tactical Will Congress crush tech spending? Holiday e-commerce spending set to grow 15% This year's H-1B cap is reached at quicker pace Court rules that HP's Hurd investigation document can remain secret FBI, DHS say no evidence of a hack in an Illinois water district pump failure Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45 Gbps, says company The need for cloud identity management Better Windows support due on IBM mainframes WHITE PAPER: VMware Global Cloud Computing Adoption This paper analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing cloud services, examines the business benefits and risks, and provides the steps you should take for a successful implementation. Learn more. Mobile shoppers help drive online sales surge on Thanksgiving What did U.S. consumers do in between servings of turkey, stuffing and pie? Surfed the web and shopped big. Online retail sales jumped 39.3% on Thanksgiving, compared to last year's single-day holiday total. Read More WAN optimization is shifting from strategic to tactical WAN optimization is rapidly moving out of the "nice to have" category and is becoming a "need to have" technology. The shift to strategic WAN optimization will raise its visibility with higher-level IT leaders and create some interesting competitive dynamics in the future. Read More Will Congress crush tech spending? The failure of the Congressional Super Committee to reach a deficit reduction agreement triggers automatic federal spending cuts beginning the next fiscal year, which will likely make a lot of government IT contractors nervous. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobility KnowledgeVault The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault provide expert guidance, peer advice, survey results and best practices to help you protect your mobile infrastructure. From determining a policy for employee-owned devices and data encryption to supporting the six major mobile operating systems, securing mobile devices and data is a top priority. View now Holiday e-commerce spending set to grow 15% Based on the first three weeks of November, comScore is forecasting 15% growth in e-commerce spending for the 2011 holiday season. Read More This year's H-1B cap is reached at quicker pace The annual H-1B cap has been reached, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and at a pace that is two months ahead of last year. Read More Court rules that HP's Hurd investigation document can remain secret A document tied to an internal HP sexual harassment investigation of former CEO Mark Hurd will remain sealed, according to a ruling handed down by the Delaware Supreme Court. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Scaling Out Query Performance with Sybase IQ 15.3 This paper is meant to provide a holistic perspective and introduce the technical concepts behind DQP in general and Sybase® IQ 15.3's DQP implementation through the PlexQ Distributed Query Platform. Read now. FBI, DHS say no evidence of a hack in an Illinois water district pump failure The FBI and Department of Homeland Security say they can't find evidence to confirm any of the story that an Illinois water authority's SCADA network was hacked and that it resulted in burning out a pump in the system. Read More Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45 Gbps, says company A week-long DDoS attack that launched a flood of traffic at an Asian e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so far this year, according to Prolexic, a company that defends websites against such attacks. Read More The need for cloud identity management Imagine this scenario: a disgruntled IT staffer leaves the company, goes down to the local McDonald's, logs back into the network and starts taking down virtual machines. One of the machines taken down is the Exchange server, virtually killing much of the internal response due to reliance on email as a major response coordination mechanism. Sound far-fetched? Well, it happened in August. Read More Better Windows support due on IBM mainframes IBM said its mainframes will soon be able to manage Windows applications, bridging one of the last major divides in data centers. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Top IT Turkeys of 2011 You know, it just doesn't feel like Thanksgiving to me unless I have mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and an iPad with the annual Network World Top IT Turkeys slideshow all arranged on the table for the feast. So let's sharpen our knives and get to the carving, because these turkeys are getting cold. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group Even Wales finds his wall-to-wall Wikipedia pictures 'annoying' 7 hot storage startups to watch 11 eye-popping Black Friday tablet, laptop and ereader deals 9 best practices for successful IT projects DARPA to banish 'geeky formal' way code defects are eradicated Maybe 802.11ad will dominate after all Interview with a pirate Top IT turkeys of 2011 FCC chief declares AT&T/T-Mobile merger a turkey
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