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	7 steps to social media stardom Social media is taking up more and more of our time, both at home and work. Many enterprises have even started to treat social media tools as mission-critical, meaning that if you don't start mastering them, your lack of knowledge could impede your career. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Infosim German Engineering delivers Unified NMS Infosim Unified NMS. Single solution Configuration, Performance and Fault Management for Enterprise Networks and Service Providers. SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, IPSLA, Syslog, VM, APM and more in one Tool with Device Discovery, Mapping and Config Management. Replace multiple tools and manual correlation with one GUI and Automated Root Cause Analysis. Join our Webinar on Thursday 24th May at 2pm EDT to learn how the World's largest Luxury Auto Company replaced 5 tools with Infosim to manage its 25,000 devices. In this Issue How Alan Turing set the rules for computing 15 social media scams First-day buyer of original 2007 iPhone found love and connectivity Silent CEO, shadowy avatars fuel Google+ 'ghost town' vibe Cisco has some more company in SDNs Original iPhone: Why this guy is still using a 5-year-old smartphone Finalists in Microsoft's $250K contest take on 'most-pressing' exploit tactic INSIDER If you are going to build a private cloud, Eucalyptus is the tool you're looking for, says CEO Mårten Mickos Open source cloud vendors air their differences WHITE PAPER: Certeon Put the Power of Application Acceleration to Work Discover a new, non-appliance approach to improving application performance for mobile workers. Through data compression, content-aware data deduplication (using a single instance history store), and by a variety of advanced protocol handling methods and application blueprints, users can see 50%-90% improved throughput. Learn more. How Alan Turing set the rules for computing On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born. Read More 15 social media scams From Facebook phishing lures to Twitter and Tumblr hoaxes, here are 15 scams to watch out for on social networking sites. Read More First-day buyer of original 2007 iPhone found love and connectivity June 29, 2007, the day the original iPhone went on sale, was a big day for Web developer Honey Berk. She got the Apple smartphone and a fiancé. Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon Reduce Network Traffic between VMware VMs Accelerate application performance within your VMware environment. The industry's first virtual appliance for application acceleration for VMware combines high performance of application acceleration with cost-savings of virtualization. It significantly reduces network traffic between VMs. Learn more. Silent CEO, shadowy avatars fuel Google+ 'ghost town' vibe As soon as I read that voice problems were keeping Larry Page from speaking in public, I headed straight to his Google+ account to see how the stricken CEO was using his company's social networking platform to help maintain communications with the masses. He isn't. Read More Cisco has some more company in SDNs Stealthy data center start-up Plexxi is revealing a tiny bit more about itself. The company blogged this week that it is now entering "private beta" with its products, the substance of which Plexxi is still tight-lipped about. Read More Original iPhone: Why this guy is still using a 5-year-old smartphone Tihomir Yosifov, a network support engineer for a tech firm in Bulgaria, owns an original iPhone and says it still works great, 5 years after Apple introduced the iconic smartphone. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Bring Your Own Mobile Devices to School In today's educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school's network. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how to address the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Learn more. Finalists in Microsoft's $250K contest take on 'most-pressing' exploit tactic Microsoft yesterday announced that each of the three finalists in the BlueHat Prize $250,000 security contest came up with ways to detect and stymie one of the most effective exploit methods now being used by hackers. Read More INSIDER If you are going to build a private cloud, Eucalyptus is the tool you're looking for, says CEO Mårten Mickos There are a growing number of open source cloud infrastructure players in the market, but Eucalyptus says it is the best bet for private enterprise clouds. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with CEO Mårten Mickos, who, as the former CEO of MySQL, has loads of experience growing significant open source companies, to learn more about the company and how Mickos sees private clouds evolving. Mickos addresses where Eucalyptus fits in, typical use cases, how they are different from Piston Cloud and OpenStack, ties to Amazon (described as the Linux of today), the importance of migrating jobs to and from public clouds, plans for the $30 million in capital Eucalyptus just raised, and more in this wide-ranging chat. Read More Open source cloud vendors air their differences The open source cloud world looks to be getting more contentious. At a panel discussion this week, representatives from OpenStack, Citrix's CloudStack and Eucalyptus – three competing open source cloud deployment software platforms – traded jabs back and forth. Read More
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