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	Cisco sacrificing one for another? Just as Cisco is reportedly looking to shed its Linksys home router business, which it acquired in 2003 for $500 million, more speculation surfaces that the company may make an even bigger splash in an effort to energize growth. Bloomberg reports that Cisco's appetite for growth-through-expansion means that storage player NetApp, virtualization partner Citrix and cloud provid Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds, Inc. SolarWinds Web Help Desk Software - Awesomely Affordably Web-based ticketing, change management, IT asset management & more! SolarWinds Web Help Desk is an affordable, feature-rich, easy-to-use tool that goes beyond simple trouble ticket solutions. Automatically convert user emails into tickets, update tickets, inventory assets & more. Get all of the help desk features you need at an incredible price! Download a fully functional, 30-day free trial today and discover how easy and affordable help desk software can be! In this Issue Large enterprises will lean toward open SDN platforms Welcome to 2013: The Implications of Sufficiency IT leaders prepare for their top IT security threats of 2013 Future smart spies: Innovative leaps in 2012 The Mayans really predicted the release of E17 How removing 386 support in Linux will destroy the world Nine out of ten health care organizations breached for 7B in losses? I don't think so WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now Large enterprises will lean toward open SDN platforms A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post defining what "open networking" really meant and how it should be defined. On Monday morning, one of the companies I mentioned in the blog, Pica8, announced its vision and reference architecture for software defined networks (SDNs). Read More Welcome to 2013: The Implications of Sufficiency Looking back on 2012, we saw the blooming of LTE (thank you, iPhone 5), the arrival of 802.11ac (a year and a half ahead of the standard actually being done, but, hey, what else is new?), a shift from caring about platforms to caring about apps (yes, I know this statement remains controversial, but I stand by it, more now than ever, in fact), a far greater emphasis on the cloud (what we used to call... 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! IT leaders prepare for their top IT security threats of 2013 Wisegate, the professional networking organization for IT and information security professionals, recently convened its members to discuss their top IT security threats for the coming year. Read what's on their minds, and how they plan to address the threats. Read More Future smart spies: Innovative leaps in 2012 When it comes to combining biometrics and smart devices, the future is now. Here is a look at three technological "smart" leaps that happened in 2012. Smart gaming touchscreen recognizes your touch Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Scaling Out Data Centers Organizations of all sizes are facing daunting challenges as they struggle to adapt their data center networks to new technologies and applications. The move toward cloud architectures in particular is demanding a high-performance network interconnect that can host servers potentially numbering in the thousands. Read Now The Mayans really predicted the release of E17 On Friday, December 21st, 2012, the world won't be ending. But something far, far more surprising will be happening. In fact, the most improbable event, in human history, will occur on December 21st. That's right. I'm talking about the release of Enlightenment 17 (aka "E17"). Not familiar with E17? Here's a quick overview. *Clears throat* Read More How removing 386 support in Linux will destroy the world As you may have heard by now, the Linux kernel is dropping support for the 386 processor. It's okay. I'll wait right here while you finish pushing over monitors and flipping over every desk at work in a nerd rage. I did the same thing. Get it out of your system. I know, I know. Almost nobody on the planet uses a 386-based PC anymore. The first 386 processors started shipping in 1985 – which, according... Read More Nine out of ten health care organizations breached for 7B in losses? I don't think so The Ponemon Institute just released their third annual "Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security." Sponsored by IDexperts, the survey and report looks at data breaches in the health care industry. As in years past, the report rings up some pretty impressive statistics. For instance 94% of health care organizations had a data breach in the last year, 45% had more than 5 data breaches. Read... Read More
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