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	IPv6 doomsday won't hit in 2012, experts say Next year will see one more regional Internet registry run out of IPv4 addresses, but 2012 will be more of a year to prepare for the inevitable shift to IPv6 than an Internet doomsday, according to networking experts. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco UCS with intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors Learn how the Cisco Unified Computing System, powered by intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors, signals an evolution in the data center: Cisco Unified Computing at Work, Unified Computing Design Zone, Build a Cloud Ready Data Center and Changing the Server Industry. Learn More In this Issue Users desert Windows XP in near-record numbers Tech luminaries we lost in 2011 Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers Five open source technologies for 2012 IT managers are aloof, insular, says psychologist Life in IT: Tech ideals meet user reality Ten IT news stories we'll read in 2012 Russia building 10-petaflop supercomputer RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Palo Alto Networks Evolving Your Data Center Network Security Palo Alto Networks, Brocade, and guest speaker Principal Analyst John Kindervag from Forrester Research, Inc. will discuss the evolution of data center networks, and how leading-edge organizations are implementing next-generation data center network security. Click to continue Users desert Windows XP in near-record numbers Microsoft's Windows XP lost a big chunk of usage share last month as users continued to desert the aging operating system for Windows 7. Read More Tech luminaries we lost in 2011 It's been a rough year for the IT industry. The death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in October grabbed international headlines. But we also lost other major figures from almost every area of technology, including Xerox PARC founder Jacob E. Goldman, who died in late December. Here's one last look at some of the people who made a big difference. Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD The Accelerated SMB: Moving at the Speed of Virtualization Mid-market corporations increasingly rely on technology to serve as the enablers and accelerators of the business—not just to reduce costs but also to empower new business initiatives and increase the top line. Learn More! Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers Hackers armed with a single machine and a minimal broadband connection can cripple Web servers, researchers said Wednesday. Microsoft today shipped an emergency update to fix the flaw. Read More Five open source technologies for 2012 Next year, if all goes according to plan, Red Hat will become the first open source software company to generate more than US$1 billion a year in revenue. It will be a watershed moment for the open source community, who have long seen their approach of community-based development as a viable, even superior, alternative to traditional notions of how software should be written. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Growing Your Business Without a Crystal Ball Learn how an upgrade at Opus Interactive allows scalable storage growth with 40 percent less upfront cost. Read Now! IT managers are aloof, insular, says psychologist In an interview with Computerworld, organizational psychologist Billie Blair explains how IT managers and their staffs are different from the rest of us. Read More Life in IT: Tech ideals meet user reality IT pros share their real-life, on-the-job stories. Here's a look at memorable ones from the last year Read More Ten IT news stories we'll read in 2012 Well, we erred in our 2011 predictions in not repeating a 2010 forecast that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO -- it was bound to happen, we just called that one too early. Then again, we also predicted last year that Oracle would buy Salesforce.com and have decided not to repeat ourselves this year, so we'll see if we were just ahead on that one, too. Meanwhile, these are our predictions for the next 12 months. Read More Russia building 10-petaflop supercomputer T-Platforms, a Moscow-based tech company that is behind some of that nation's largest systems, is building a 10-petaflop supercomputer for M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, the company said this week. Read More
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