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	Cisco forces manufacturer's hand; company adopts Microsoft Lync Cisco forced the hand of Creation Technologies to adopt Microsoft's Lync communications platform for conferencing, and now the company has the package on its roadmap to replace disparate, isolated PBXs in the future. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC Allocating data center energy costs and carbon to IT users This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon allocation strategies and their precision. We show that it is both easy and inexpensive for any data center, large or small, new or old, to get started allocating costs and carbon, but the expense and complexity escalate and ROI declines when excessive precision is specified. Learn More In this Issue 10 funny (?) April Fools' pranks - Web style Threat of a bullet in the face keeping cybercrooks conservative President Obama targets $200 million for big data boost Ethernet Alliance chair talks about key trends, what's next Windows 8, Phone 7 are the last gasp for Microsoft dominance in smart devices DARPA does Big Data in a big way Chrome 18 Arrives with Nine Security Fixes In praise of alternative approaches to cybersecurity Open-source designs for your very own tricorder now available online Microsoft bot takedowns help, but are no cure WHITE PAPER: PhoneFactor Guide to Evaluating Two-Factor Authentication Solutions Whether you're planning to implement two-factor authentication for the first time or are looking to expand or upgrade your current implementation, this whitepaper will help you choose the two-factor solution that is right for your business. Learn More 10 funny (?) April Fools' pranks - Web style Our roundup of some of 2011's Internet-based April Fools' pranks should get you in the mood for this year's inevitable crop. Get ready to wince. Read More Threat of a bullet in the face keeping cybercrooks conservative Scott Borg, director of a cybersecurity research institute, kicked off the SecureWorld Expo Boston with an uplifting talk about the end of the cybersecurity world as we know it. Sure, more sophisticated threats are on the way, but those in cybersecurity also have new opportunities to defend threats and even enable economic growth. But it was the head of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit's take on why cybercriminals are actually more conservative than you might think that got the biggest reaction from the audience of IT security industry professionals. In fact, Borg say his organization has sometimes been off on its predictions because cybercrime trends have taken longer to emerge than expected. Read More President Obama targets $200 million for big data boost The U.S. government is the poster child for big data and today President Obama is set to announce a $200 million research program to bolster the tools and techniques needed to access, organize, and glean discoveries from huge volumes of digital data. Read More WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL Next-Gen Firewalls for K-12: Hall County Schools How Hall County Schools leverages SonicWALL Appliance Intelligence, Control and Visualization for bandwidth management and prioritization of application traffic for VoIP, video conferencing and social media resources. Read now. Ethernet Alliance chair talks about key trends, what's next John D'Ambrosia, Chief Ethernet Evangelist in the CTO Office at Dell (he came onboard when Dell bought Force10), is a founder of the Ethernet Alliance and currently serving as its chairman. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with D'Ambrosia for an update on the Alliance and Ethernet advances. Read More Windows 8, Phone 7 are the last gasp for Microsoft dominance in smart devices Windows 8 better be a hit if Microsoft wants to head off being toppled by Android as the dominant operating system for PCs, media tablets and smartphones, according to IDC. By 2016, Android devices will account for 31.1% of the market, with Windows trailing with 25.1%, according to results from three IDC studies. Last year, Windows led with 35.9%. Read More DARPA does Big Data in a big way As part of the Federal Government's Big Data Extravaganza, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) detailed some of its programs the agency says could benefit from the $200 million research program announced today by President Obama. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Switching Schedulers – Not As Complicated As You Think Changing or consolidating job schedulers may seem daunting. However, the benefits of switching to enterprise workload automation outweigh the risks. Read how BMC can help realize goals like reduced cost, top-down visibility, improved SLAs, and a single enterprise view across all platforms. Learn More Today! Chrome 18 Arrives with Nine Security Fixes Google on Wednesday released Chrome 18 to its Stable channel complete with several new features and fixes for nine security vulnerabilities. Read More In praise of alternative approaches to cybersecurity After spending a lot of time reading a lot of words about a lot of cybersecurity attacks, trends and patterns start to take shape. Read More Open-source designs for your very own tricorder now available online Ever wanted to wave a tricorder at something, furrow your brow, and announce, "captain, I am picking up an odd concentration of signals in this area?" If you have - and what Star Trek fan hasn't? - you might want to give Peter Jansen's tricorder project a look. The Canadian designer recently released full specifications for two versions of his own hand-held multi-sensor. Read More Microsoft bot takedowns help, but are no cure Takedowns of Zeus botnet command and control servers like the one executed last week by Microsoft and others do reduce the criminal activity they spawn - for a while - but attackers learn from the experience and come back with more sophisticated techniques, a security expert says. Read More
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