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	The Internet: It ain't designed to protect your privacy We can't keep our privacy on the web because we're too addicted to all the free stuff it has to offer. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: China Telecom Americas Choose China Telecom for Turnkey VPN Solutions Read how China Telecom America's new VPN Network services can allow you add new locations quickly in China - from set-up, configuration, deploying, monitoring, and support-related tasks, including leased hardware. No other company can do it all in China. Click here for discounts of up to 20%. In this Issue Can Homeland Security prevent a cybersecurity critical infrastructure disaster? Tech's original Great Satan calls out Google for being evil Cybersecurity Lessons from the Battlefields of Europe Communities will lead the next wave of competitive advantage in networking F5 Shakes Up the Firewall Market Moving on WHITE PAPER: Mitel Giving Voice to the Virtual Desktop For the first time ever, Unified Communications (UC) joins other mission-critical applications on users' cloud-based desktops. Learn More Can Homeland Security prevent a cybersecurity critical infrastructure disaster? The U.S. is headed toward a "cybersecurity disaster," according to a Bloomberg Government study. Read More Tech's original Great Satan calls out Google for being evil My, how the tables have turned! Microsoft is apparently placing ads in major newspapers this week (I say "apparently" because no one reads newspapers anymore and I thus have no way of fact-checking) that call out Google for being too evil and not "putting people first." Read More WHITE PAPER: Mitel Unified Communications and Virtualization 101 This E-Guide from Mitel and VMware explains everything you'd want to know about Unified Communications and Virtualization, including the cost and operational benefits. An easy to read, yet in-depth look at how business can make use of this compelling technology combination. Learn More Cybersecurity Lessons from the Battlefields of Europe At the beginning of WWI, battlefield tactics had not advanced much since the U.S. Civil War. The general goal was to continually advance on the enemy with waves of infantry attacks and eventually break through the lines by overwhelming enemy defenses. Read More Communities will lead the next wave of competitive advantage in networking Competitive advantage for network technologies will be determined by a vendor's ability to allow its customers to create custom features through a programmable front end and then share these ideas with a broader community. The community will become a self feeding ecosystem that will create a higher level of stickiness with network technologies. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Networking and Cloud: An Era of Change As you deploy cloud infrastructure and operating models in your organization, the role that networking plays and the impact of these models on your networks may not always be clear. This document discusses the importance of the network to cloud computing, why the network must change, and what Cisco is doing to lead these changes. Learn More! F5 Shakes Up the Firewall Market The high-end of the firewall market has really been dominated by two companies: Crossbeam Systems (with Check Point Software) and Juniper Networks. Over the past few years, these two firms won most of the high revenue/high margin enterprise and service provider deals. Read More Moving on After 13 years with Network World, I've decided it's time to try something different. It has been a terrific experience. As an editor here I've had a front-row seat for the many changes in networking – which is to say I've seen the many changes to IT, to my own industry of publishing, and to the way we all do our business and go about our lives. Read More
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