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The 5 hottest IT jobs right now
If you're an IT professional with experience building mobile or cloud applications, it's a good time to be job hunting. That's because the number of job openings in these areas is up dramatically from last summer. Read More


WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN

Traditional WLAN vs. ADTRAN's Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN)
The substantial differences between a traditional hardware controller-based wireless LAN and ADTRAN's virtual wireless LAN (hypervisor-based) are detailed in ADTRAN's WLAN vs. vWLAN comparison chart. Learn more.

WHITE PAPER: Polycom

Mobile Video: Introducing the Final Frontier
This custom white paper will be dynamically configurated for you based on your industry, job function, and company size. It explores the rise of Mobile Video in the wake of IT consumerization and BYOD—the challenges, rewards and best practices for success. Learn More

Quirkiest Moments at 2012 Black Hat security conference
From half-naked booth reps to colorful robots, it wasn't all about security on the exhibit floor and around the conference Read More

Gartner analyst backpedals on 'bad' Windows 8 review, but he shouldn't have to
Just days after a Gartner analyst called Windows 8 "bad," he then did a quick retreat and removed the reference from his blog post and in comments to a U.K. tech publication. Gunnar Berger, a research director at the consulting firm, wrote a total of five blog posts summarizing his thoughts on Microsoft's next OS, which is due this October. Berger covered a wide variety of features and functions on... Read More

OpenBSD founder calls Red Hat and Canonical 'traitors' to open source
Theo de Raadt, the founder of the OpenBSD project and a well-known figure in the open-source community, attacked commercial Linux vendors Red Hat and Canonical in an interview with ITWire for their plans to work with Microsoft's secure boot system. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Shoretel

Sophisticated Simplicity
The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more.

5 tips for making your cloud SLA air-tight
It's one of the most important documents you sign when starting a cloud deployment with a public vendor: your service-level agreement (SLA). But a leading tech lawyer says customers can get burnt by their provider if they're not careful. Read More

The hidden iPhone: New photos from early 2006 show Apple's design tinkering
Even as iPhone 5 fever heats up, Apple-Samsung court case puts focus on original iPhone Read More

Software Development: Still Lacking Strong Security
Large organizations are buying next-generation firewalls, advanced malware detection/prevention systems, encryption software, and new types of security analytics tools. On balance, this is a good thing as they add more layers of defense to networks and host computers. 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.

Juniper: We have 200 QFabric data center switch customers now
Juniper says it now has 200 customers for its QFabric data center switches, having gained 50 since the first quarter. Read More

Windows 8 Update: Desperate for developers?
As the deadline looms for the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has launched a virtual lab where developers can tap into virtual instances of the forthcoming operating system and practice writing Metro-style applications. Read More

Olympics could strain enterprise networks
The Olympics happen every two years, but according to media watchers and IT professionals, the impact of the Olympics on communications traffic globally from this year's games could be more significant than any in the 116-year history of the modern games. Read More

Tatu Ylonen, father of SSH, says security is 'getting worse'
Tatu Ylonen has garnered fame in technology circles as the inventor of Secure Shell (SSH), the widely used protocol to protect data communications. The CEO of SSH Communications Security -- whose crypto-based technology invented in 1995 continues to be used in hundreds of millions of computers, routers and servers -- recently spoke with Network World on a variety of security topics. (At the Black Hat Conference this week, his company is also announcing CryptoAuditor.) Read More

Researcher wows Black Hat with NFC-based smartphone hacking demo
At the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, Accuvant Labs researcher Charlie Miller showed how he figured out a way to break into both the Google/Samsung Nexus S and Nokia N9 by means of the Near Field Communication (NFC) capability in the smartphones. Read More

 
 
 

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