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	Download Wrappers Are Wrong, Doubly Wrong With Open Source How many times have you downloaded software over the net and while it was installing it asked you if you would like to use this terrific new toolbar or some other software? Worse yet, how many times did you install software you downloaded over the net only to find out that it installed other software without even asking you? No matter how many times it has happened to me, I always feel violated afterwards. 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! In this Issue HP Does The Right Thing In Open Sourcing WebOS What's next with hypervisors? Red Hat Releases RHEL 6.2 FAQ: CNET's "Trojan" installer WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL Next-Gen Firewalls for HIED: SUNY College at Old Westbury SUNY College at Old Westbury implemented Next-Gen Firewalls for bandwidth management to optimize traffic for video streaming and other uses. Read now. HP Does The Right Thing In Open Sourcing WebOS Every once in a while things go the right way. Today's announcement by HP that they will open source WebOS is an example. The venerable OS seems to have more lives than a cat. After Palm nearly went under, only to be rescued by HP for a mere 1.2 billion dollars, PalmOS/WebOS seemed to have a bright future again. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more What's next with hypervisors? The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly. To get a handle on recent developments, Network World Editor in Chief John Dix corralled a panel of experts to assess where we are today and where we're going. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Eliminate Architectural Limitations of WLANs Reduce the cost and complexity of wireless networks with cloud-enabled, distributed Wi-Fi and routing. By removing the architectural limitations of traditional WLANs, you can support identity-based access and enable delivery of mission-critical applications and services to any user, on any device, at any time without a single point of failure. Read now! Red Hat Releases RHEL 6.2 Red Hat has released a new version of their flagship Enterprise Linux OS. RHEL 6.2 consolidates patches since REHL 6.1 plus offers some substantial improvements in security, virtualization, performance and flexibility. I spoke with Tim Burke, VP of Linux engineering at Red Hat about the new release. Read More FAQ: CNET's "Trojan" installer CNET is under fire for downloading more than just open source software with the open source software that it makes available on its Web site. Read More
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