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	iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 14 The iOSphere is the only virtual place where reality imitates fantasy. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Are you ready for cloud services? If you're thinking about cloud services for your organization, ask yourself this question: Are you ready? According to Forrester Research, Inc., that's the most important thing to consider before moving forward with your cloud initiatives. That's why we'd like to offer you a complimentary copy of the Forrester report: Assess Your Cloud Maturity. Get the report now to start planning your cloud services strategy. In this Issue The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 Juniper buys SDN startup for $176M 13 events that defined Cisco's 2012 Microsoft's beef with Apple over SkyDrive for iOS is justified 16 most anticipated tech products of 2013 IT shops will become consultants instead of tech managers, says EMC's CIO RFID: Befuddled by FUD Worst security snafus of 2012 Dell's acquisitions not yet paying dividends WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Managing Application Performance and Availability A review of virtualized application performance characteristics and three ways to deploy the capabilities of a Coyote Point an Equalizer ADC to significantly enhance the availability and performance of virtualized applications. View Now The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 From Google Android development to crazy iPhone stunts, it's been a busy year Read More Juniper buys SDN startup for $176M Juniper Networks this week acquired Contrail Systems, a startup that makes controllers for software-defined networks, for $176 million in cash and stock. Read More 13 events that defined Cisco's 2012 From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare, part of the SolarWinds Family DameWare Remote Support Software – Easy, Fast & Affordable Remotely manage servers, desktops and laptops in minutes! With DameWare you can remotely manage key elements of your infrastructure - domains, workstations, disk drives, & event logs. You need to resolve Windows, Mac & Linux problems for your end-users quickly, and DameWare lets you perform various critical system management tasks – remotely! Download a fully functional, free trial today and discover why thousands of system administrators use DameWare every day! Microsoft's beef with Apple over SkyDrive for iOS is justified It's been a while since Apple and Microsoft took cheap shots at each other. I guess they got bored. One news outlet reports Apple is being difficult about approving the newest version of SkyDrive for iOS. Read More 16 most anticipated tech products of 2013 We're not sure some of them are even on the drawing board, but they'd be great to see Read More IT shops will become consultants instead of tech managers, says EMC's CIO As with their user forum last year, EMC's Forum Boston 2012 on Friday emphasized cloud infrastructure technology, big data and business intelligence products. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Advances in Deduplication Help Tame Big Data A converged storage strategy can help companies more easily deal with the various storage challenges they face, including the increasing amounts of unstructured data they must manage. Also known as big data, unstructured data includes any data that is not in a structured database format. Read Now! RFID: Befuddled by FUD Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has shown promise as a way to monitor the movement and even the condition of all sorts of objects. Read More Worst security snafus of 2012 The first half of 2012 was pretty bad -- from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches -- and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous. Read More Dell's acquisitions not yet paying dividends Dell's effort to move away from PCs into enterprise products has been slow as the company battles a challenging economy and tries to weave together acquisitions in a coherent manner. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Top network and IT industry stories of 2012 The cloud, tablets, software-defined networking, IPv6 and 4G wireless reshape the enterprise IT landscape in 2012. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES Japan police offers first-ever reward for wanted hacker 16 most anticipated tech products of 2013 10 most successful open source projects of 2012 The best wacky gadgets of 2012 It's too soon to call Microsoft's Surface tablet a failure 13 events that defined Cisco's 2012 Juniper buys SDN startup for $176 million Riverbed announces three releases for the Steelhead Mobile Controller appliance Who makes the most popular anti-virus in the world? Microsoft (yeah, that's right) Fave-reads: 5 must-read books for IT career growth
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