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	Leading ISPs, websites commit to June 6 start for IPv6 Several of the world's largest ISPs and websites have committed to permanently enabling IPv6 -- the next-generation Internet Protocol -- on their products and services starting June 6, 2012. Read More WEBCAST: VMware & NetApp Disaster Recovery at Green Mountain Power Paula Fortin of Green Mountain Power explains how disaster recovery of their IT environment, based on VMware and NetApp technology solutions, was rapidly recoverable during Hurricane Irene. View Now! In this Issue 12 effective habits of indispensible IT pros Google's Marissa Mayer says more women needed in tech Security deployments, training reduce cyberattacks: survey Cisco issues advisory for wireless gear Children-and-robots survey says a lot about grownups iPad 3 slated for release in early February Mozilla slows pace of Firefox 9 upgrades Full steam ahead for gigabit wireless, report says Clamor for cloud apps increases corporate data breach risk How to cope with HTML5's dueling standards bodies WHITE PAPER: VCE/VMware The Evolution of Virtualized Desktops The virtual client computing (VCC) market has grown rapidly, despite the economic downturn over the past few years. The centralized virtual desktop (CVD, aka virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI) segment has led the way in facilitating this growth. IDC expects to see significant production deployments of centralized virtualized desktops. Learn More 12 effective habits of indispensible IT pros Ditch the slackers, take on dirty work, do it with data -- here's how to get the inside track on a highly rewarding career in IT. Read More Google's Marissa Mayer says more women needed in tech Women may have come a long way in the high-tech field in the last 10 years, but there's still a lot of room for growth, according to a group of female tech executives. Read More Security deployments, training reduce cyberattacks: survey A survey of 1,425 information technology managers in 32 countries about the type of security they deployed on their network endpoints, as well as security training for employees, indicates that these technology investments paid off in mitigating cyberattacks and downtime. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Gartner recommends up to 300% more Wi-Fi to support iPads! Tablets, like the iPad, are becoming more prevalent in the enterprise. Execs, doctors, teachers, and sales people are demanding more access to corp. apps and resources over their mobile devices. According to Gartner, the limited networking capabilities of the iPad will force IT departments to increase Wi-Fi capacity by 300%. Learn More Cisco issues advisory for wireless gear Cisco has issued a security advisory on some of its wireless and unified communications products in response to attack tools that exploit a weakness in a protocol they use. The weakness was detailed by US-CERT in a Vulnerability Note last month. Read More Children-and-robots survey says a lot about grownups Those behind the survey - a research company called Latitude and LEGO - say its results demonstrate that "robots are helping to reveal a potential shift in kids' social and learning psychologies, suggesting new opportunities for educators and technologists to better address common hurdles children encounter in the learning process to inspire self-direction and creative risk-taking and to enhance kids' experiences with technology more broadly." Read More iPad 3 slated for release in early February iPad 3 rumors continue to roll in fast and furious. Hot on the heels of a report that the next-gen iPad will house a quad-core processor and will support 4G LTE networks, the Japanese-language Macotakara blog is reporting that Apple will hold a special iPad media event in early February to be followed by an iPad 3 release in early March. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan What to Look for in Smart Card Readers Deploy servers with PKI authentication without sacrificing convenience or security. Learn how modern KVM switches with smart card capabilities go beyond simply integrating card readers as an additional peripheral at the KVM workstation, but rather make necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. Learn More Mozilla slows pace of Firefox 9 upgrades Mozilla dramatically slowed the update pace of Firefox 9, the browser it shipped late last month. Read More Full steam ahead for gigabit wireless, report says The uptake of wireless networks based on 802.11ac is expected to be high when the first products arrive later this year, according to a report from IMS Research. Read More Clamor for cloud apps increases corporate data breach risk Vendor analysis of network and application traffic shows poorly managed remote access tools and traffic flowing outside port 80 are rampant. Read More How to cope with HTML5's dueling standards bodies The nice thing about standards is there are so many of them to choose from. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS CES 2012 ultrabooks and tablets Ultrabooks! Ultrabooks! That's the official biggest buzzword for this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ultrabooks! In honor of these purportedly magical super-thin laptops, we've decided to make a compilation of some of the ultrabooks you'll see at CES next week. And for good measure, we've thrown in a tablet that will garner a lot of attention as well. Enjoy! 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 Mac attack FTC may investigate Google for favoring Google+ in Search Plus Your World No demand for Windows 8 tablets? Or don't trust predictive surveys RSA chief: Last year's breach has silver lining Chinese 'attack US DOD smart cards' with Sykipot malware Woz on smartphones: Wishes his iPhone could do all his Android can More confusion over Windows 8 tablets Cisco's Umi still dead. As a doornail. Really, really dead IPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 13 The best of CES 2012
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