Monday, November 07, 2011

Juniper at the root of Internet outage?

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Juniper at the root of Internet outage?
Juniper routers are reportedly behind an Internet outage that affected service providers and Web sites around the globe this morning. Read More


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Three steps to agile change
Comprehensive IT change configuration and release management (CCRM) continues to confound and frustrate both IT and the business units for which it provides services. But by first instituting the appropriate foundational processes and supporting tools, many enterprises are experiencing renewed CCRM success. Read Now

Wi-Fi security do's and don'ts
11 tips for protecting your wireless networks Read More

Major Internet outage only briefly delays griping via social media
RIM really can't win these days, taking the early hits for today's Internet outage that appears to have stemmed from router problems and issues within backbone provider Level 3's network, not within the BlackBerry network itself. But BlackBerry customers have last month's big outage still fresh in mind. Read More

Barnes & Noble launches Nook Tablet
Barnes & Noble launched its widely expected tablet Monday, taking on the soon-to-be released tablet from book-selling rival Amazon with a machine that has slightly better specs. Read More


WEBCAST: IBM

Customer Lifetime Value for IT
With technology underpinning much of the customer experience, IT and marketing must adopt new technologies to innovate and grow revenues. Watch the video to learn how IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics enables marketers while reducing the burden on IT. View Now

Former IBM CEO John Opel dies
John Opel, who served as IBM CEO from 1981 to 1985, passed away at the age of 86 last week, IBM confirmed Monday. Read More

Ebooks vs. Print books
The question about ebooks is not if they will pass print, but when. Read More

Accused Chinese cyber-spy on trial for stealing Motorola secrets
Software engineer Hanjuan Jin, accused of stealing thousands of confidential and proprietary technical documents from Motorola to share with competitors and the People's Republic of China, is expected to stand trial this week in Chicago. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Raritan

Why Managing VMs is So Complex
Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now!

Will Windows 8 really perform on well on low-end hardware? Here's a test.
The following is a guest blog by freelance editor and self-confessed keyboard geek Marco Chiappetta. Among the plethora of information regarding Windows 8 that Microsoft has so far disseminated, is talk about a handful of optimizations meant to streamline, speed-up, or otherwise reduce Windows 8's footprint in comparison to Windows 7. So, I set out to put these claims to a real world test on... Read More

RSA and McAfee add cloud security offerings
Cloud security options are set to widen today as RSA teams with Microsoft and Citrix to support use of RSA SecurID authentication, and separately, McAfee unveils enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform. Read More

IBM's Watson beats Harvard students in 'Jeopardy!' quiz
IBM's Watson beat a trio of Harvard Business School contestants in a mock Jeopardy competition Monday. Read More

Why Today's CIO Must Foster IT Agility
Dell CIO Robin Johnson explains how a company's lack of agility, the inability of its IT infrastructure to quickly incorporate a new business process that would give it a competitive edge, can be costly. Johnson explains why the price of this lack of agility, what he refers to as the agility tax, is too high to pay. Read More

Despite Internet outage, social media users find ways to gripe
RIM really can't win these days, taking the early hits for today's Internet outage that appears to have stemmed from router problems and issues with Time Warner Cable and Level 3's networks, not the BlackBerry network. But BlackBerry customers have last month's big outage still fresh in mind. Read More

 
 
 

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