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	Windows XP's countdown to retirement: T-minus 500 days We are now less than 500 days from the end of support for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Office 2003. Looking at the size of the existing XP population, that makes me rather nervous. 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 What can be done about WAN packet loss and its impact on WAN application performance? School district opts for VDI in computer labs Sandia Lab celebrates original "Mr. Clean" the clean room inventor Cyber Monday bust: US law enforcement joins in world-wide seizure of 132 domain names U.S. Government Progress on IPv6 Deployment Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control 10 tips for implementing IPS securely WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Meeting Campus LAN Challenges IT administrators serving K-12 and higher education institutions face a host of daunting challenges managing today's campus networks. These challenges include large and unpredictable user populations, complex and antiquated network infrastructures. Learn more. What can be done about WAN packet loss and its impact on WAN application performance? Last time, we delved into the reasons that packet loss has such an enormous impact on application performance over the WAN in the first place. Read More School district opts for VDI in computer labs As technical director for the Rocori School District in Stearns County, Minn., Brian Michalski was looking into virtual desktop infrastructure as a way to cut costs in the schools' 13 computer labs. Read More WHITE PAPER: RedSeal Networks The Challenge of Continuous Monitoring It's a daunting responsibility: keeping an enterprise network secure and in compliance with government regulations. This customizable white paper gives you strategies for doing so, based on the specific demands of your industry and whether you are a security or IT pro. Learn More Sandia Lab celebrates original "Mr. Clean" the clean room inventor Sandia National Laboratories physicist Willis Whitfield, 92, passed away earlier this month and left a technological legacy that continues to reverberate today: The legendary clean room. Read More Cyber Monday bust: US law enforcement joins in world-wide seizure of 132 domain names A team of world-wide law enforcement agencies took out 132 domain names today that were illegally selling counterfeit merchandise online. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now U.S. Government Progress on IPv6 Deployment The United States government has been striving to deploy IPv6 for many years. October 1st was the date that the government wanted to have functional IPv6-enabled Internet applications. Some agencies were able to configure some of their systems to use IPv6, but many systems did not achieve the goal. We should check how many of these systems are using IPv6 and what the government will do in the... Read More Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control New interface methods will revolutionize how we interact with computers Read More 10 tips for implementing IPS securely An intrusion prevention system (IPS) includes all the features of an intrusion detection system but also has the ability to act upon malicious traffic. Since the IPS usually sits in line with network traffic it can shut down attacks, typically by blocking access from the attacker or blocking access to the target. In some cases, the IPS can talk to the firewall to block an attack. Read More
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