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	Win an iPad! But take our smartphone survey first Network World is conducting a survey of its readers' smartphone preferences – both in their personal and work lives. Everyone who participates will be eligible to win a free Apple iPad. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Evault Get Full-Service Backup and Recovery EVault® is your only full-service backup and recovery provider, with a team of experts delivering the very best cloud-connected technology for failproof recovery. Our goal is to get your data back, and be the best partner you'll ever have. Learn More. In this Issue Silent CEO, shadowy avatars fuel Google+ 'ghost town' vibe Cisco extends server line Microsoft bets the farm on Metro Microsoft's Tablet: Let's Play a (Really Big) Game Life After World IPv6 Launch How About that Surface? Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) – A Beginning and an Introduction....... If Open Stack is the Soviet Union, Is AWS the USA? CIOs Need to Evolve or Be Left in the Dust WEBCAST: VCE/VMware Demystifying Desktop Virtualization Organizations faced with the growing costs and security concerns created by the quantity and diversity of personal computers and devices need a more secure, cost effective, flexible desktop environment. Now organizations can rapidly deploy a more secure, cost effective and flexible desktop environment. View Now 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 extends server line Cisco this week unveiled four new servers for its Unified Computing System converged data center infrastructure platform. Cisco gives an overview of the new servers in a blog post here. Read More Microsoft bets the farm on Metro If you want to help Microsoft out, love its Metro interface. It's got all those colored tiles on a Start page that fills up the entire screen and seems to stretch from side to side forever with no visible navigation tools. You have to swipe the tools in from the right side where they are displayed on the Charms bar, and if you want to switch to other open applications you have to swipe them in... Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The iEverything Enterprise Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time. Learn more. Microsoft's Tablet: Let's Play a (Really Big) Game OK, so there are big strategic problems with Microsoft's tablet strategy. But let's for a moment suppose that they really go the vertically-integrated route pioneered by Apple - screw the OEM model (and the OEMs); let's own it all, from software to hardware to retail. While I can't see Microsoft's market value holding up under such an enormous shift, and there's no telling what pissed-off former OEM... Read More Life After World IPv6 Launch It has been several weeks since World IPv6 Launch took place on June 6th. However, this event will remain the single biggest event in the development of IPv6 for many years. World IPv6 Launch was heavily promoted, but in the end, no one really noticed, which I suppose is a good thing. Network engineers, like airline pilots, never want to be mentioned on the front page of news papers. So what... Read More How About that Surface? On June 18, 2012, Microsoft announced their Surface tablet, to be available in Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro flavors. The Surface is a bit of a departure from traditional Microsoft announcements, as it uses Microsoft rather than OEM hardware. As one of the distinguishing points between Microsoft and Apple is their open hardware platform, this raises the question of alienating Microsoft's OEM relationships.... Read More WHITE PAPER: Motorola WiNG 5 Wireless LAN: Delivering Better Quality of Experience Can your wireless network infrastructure handle the growing numbers of mobile devices taking significant bandwidth bites out of your network? The good news is that with smart, cost-effective wireless infrastructure investments, not only can you scale quickly to secure the growing number of devices you serve, but also optimize their performance. Learn More. Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) – A Beginning and an Introduction....... Read More If Open Stack is the Soviet Union, Is AWS the USA? Seems like there was quite a little smack down at the Structure conference around public cloud APIs. Representatives from OpenStack, Citrix and Eucalyptus were all on a panel to discuss the various "open" cloud APIs. Well OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp came out swinging by comparing Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Walmart. Kemp said that AWS is like Walmart because: Read More CIOs Need to Evolve or Be Left in the Dust The centralized IT function of old is under tremendous pressure from trends such as cloud computing, proliferation of consumer-focused mobile devices in the enterprise and Big Data analytics. According to a report by The Economist, as these trends erode the entrenched IT structure, CIOs and their teams must better align themselves with business needs or find themselves put out to pasture. Read More
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