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	Mobile apps for me, me, me Narcissism on the go has never been so easy. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! In this Issue OpenFlow startup takes aim at Cisco, VMware Magician Teller victimized by software dirty trick Cisco relationship was stressed with Nicira buy: EMC Yahoo apologizes for fumbling fantasy football website on Sunday Palo Alto Networks targets VMware shops with virtualized next-gen firewalls iPhone to Android: How to make the switch Why does packet loss destroy application performance over the WAN? Is Sinofsky's Departure a Reflection of Windows 8? WHITE PAPER: CDW & Symantec Don't Wait for Disaster to Strike It's inevitable. At some point your business will experience data loss. It could be a simple PC meltdown, a hard-drive crash or something much worse. See what happens if you neglect to protect your mission-critical applications and data, and learn what you can do to mitigate disaster. Learn More. OpenFlow startup takes aim at Cisco, VMware Big Switch Networks has announced the general availability of its OpenFlow-based software-defined networking products and applications, as well as customers and partners. Read More Magician Teller victimized by software dirty trick Here's the apparent thought process of some genius or geniuses at software maker Enfour: We're so fed up with seeing our $55 Apple iOS dictionary app called Oxford Deluxe pirated that we're going to hoodwink people out of their Twitter credentials and then send impersonated tweets from their accounts that read like this one: Read More Cisco relationship was stressed with Nicira buy: EMC VMware's acquisition of network virtualization start-up Nicira did indeed put some stress on EMC/VMware's relationship with Cisco, EMC CEO Joe Tucci Read More Yahoo apologizes for fumbling fantasy football website on Sunday Yahoo! Sports is in full apology mode after cutting the knees out from underneath thousands of users of its fantasy football website on Sunday right before the early games started. Some problems with the mobile app were still being reported late Monday, though the website was otherwise back in working order. MEA CULPAS: 11 Sorriest Tech Companies of 2012 Read More Palo Alto Networks targets VMware shops with virtualized next-gen firewalls Palo Alto Networks Tuesday unveiled the first virtualized version of its next-generation firewall, server-based software intended to run on the VMware platform to allow security managers to set up firewall application-layer controls in virtual machines (VM). Read More iPhone to Android: How to make the switch If the Galaxy S III or other smartphone tempts you, here's how you can still fit it in Apple's ecosystem Read More Why does packet loss destroy application performance over the WAN? Before continuing on to cover which of the various technologies – those that are part of the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture as well as others – addresses packet loss and how, I think it will be worthwhile to go a bit deeper into why packet loss has such a huge impact on application performance over the WAN in the first place. Read More Is Sinofsky's Departure a Reflection of Windows 8? About a year ago at the 2011 Build conference, just weeks before Steve Jobs's passing, Steve Sinofsky owned the stage as he took the wraps off Windows 8 and highlighted Microsoft's plans to create a single interface spanning phones, tablets and PCs that ran ARM and x86 processors. More than a few Net pundits proclaimed Sinofsky the Second Coming of Jobs. So much for that prediction. Read More
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