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	AC/DC in Iranian nuclear facility attack and World Internet War I A few weeks ago here in Backspin I wrote about the Stuxnet worm that was targeted at Siemens industrial control systems and is thought responsible for damaging centrifuges used by the Iranian nuclear program to purify uranium. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the Scale Revolution in Cloud Networking Transform your enterprise data centers into a highly scalable enterprise clouds. Learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Download whitepaper and enable multi-dimensional scalability for your enterprise cloud. Learn More In this Issue A rose is a rose by any other name, but a Session Border Controller is not Dual-Stack Will Increase Operating Expenses New Requirements for Security Monitoring Advance Malware Protection: Network or Host? Outlook.com Review: Microsoft turns mail into mini-Facebook Touch-centric Windows 8 without mouse and keyboard leaves a lot behind 10 Essential SharePoint Search Hints Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe,' says Valve founder and former Microsoft employee Gabe Newell WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. WAN Optimization eGuide In this eGuide, articles from Network World examine the maturing WAN optimization market, collect advice from experts and users on how best to implement these products, and look at new trends. Read on to discover how to make the most of WAN optimization in enterprise networks. Read now. A rose is a rose by any other name, but a Session Border Controller is not Session Border Controllers (SBCs) have seen unprecedented growth over the past five years from the rise of SIP trunking, IP peering, VoIP security issues and other factors related to the growth of IP-based communication services. Although the market is in a bit of a lull right now, increased penetration rate of SIP and Voice-over LTE will create another wave of growth for SBCs over the next five years.... Read More Dual-Stack Will Increase Operating Expenses As we start to plan for IPv6 and start to deploy it on our networks we should try to anticipate the operational costs related to running both IPv6 and IPv4. IPv6 provides more addresses and some minor opportunities for cost savings. IPv4 addresses are becoming scarce and IPv4 networks are becoming increasingly costly to maintain. The combination of these operating costs and the long-tail of IPv4... Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Three Phases to Improve Application Delivery Teams Most organizations struggling with application performance have not developed the processes and organization that can maximize the benefits of their application delivery solutions. In this report, Gartner outlines three phases to help IT organizations improve their structure to deliver better application performance. Learn More! New Requirements for Security Monitoring Today's security threats are difficult to defend against. On the one hand, the volume of malware variants has gone through the roof over the past few years. On the other, targeted attacks have become more stealthy and damaging. How can CISOs possibly combat this cybersecurity double-edged sword? With continuous monitoring of everything -- IT assets, configurations, network traffic, application... Read More Advance Malware Protection: Network or Host? Large organizations have legitimate cause for concern. Malware creation and proliferation is increasing rapidly as cybercriminals and state-sponsored organizations create the next round of APTs, botnets, Trojans, and rootkits. What's more, we've entered the era of micro attacks designed to compromise a targeted organization, business unit, or individual. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Delivering enterprise solutions for a world on the move IBM supports SAP clients with business consulting services with global implementation and outsourcing capabilities plus infrastructure of optimized servers (mainframe, POWER, x, BladeCenter) and storage, DB2 database, Alloy, middleware and software. An innovation partner for SAP projects. Learn More. Outlook.com Review: Microsoft turns mail into mini-Facebook Now that I've had a day to dig into Outlook.com, Microsoft's updated email service that will retire and replace both Hotmail and Live Mail, it seems my initial assessment that Outlook.com will be similar to the basic Facebook service is more accurate than even I imagined. Read More Touch-centric Windows 8 without mouse and keyboard leaves a lot behind The new Windows 8 Wedge mouse and keyboard seem innovative and well engineered, but the real news is that they will be necessary add-ons for some Windows 8 tablets, especially when the tablets are used for traditional business applications. While Microsoft promotes touch as the key element of Windows 8, in more ways than one it acknowledges the reality that it must continue to support the mouse-keyboard... Read More 10 Essential SharePoint Search Hints I'm on a mission - I want to make sure that all SharePoint guidance (or the other G-word, governance) plans include training about a key information literacy skill: the ability to execute an effective online search. Improving "findability" is a key outcome goal for most SharePoint deployments. We often talk about metadata as the key to improving findability. But, to paraphrase a common expression,... Read More Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe,' says Valve founder and former Microsoft employee Gabe Newell The former head of Microsoft Game Studios, Ed Fries, interviewed Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell at a reception at the Casual Connect game conference this week in Seattle. As expected, much of the interview revolved around developments at Valve and Newell's opinion on the future of gaming, but at one point the outspoken Newell ripped Microsoft and Windows 8, calling the upcoming... Read More
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