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	Oracle releases emergency Java patch; experts warn flaws may take 2 years to fix After the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT warned users to disable Java to stop hackers from taking control of users' machines, Oracle issued an emergency patch on Sunday. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Blade Servers eGuide In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! In this Issue Gartner: Tablets are crushing PC sales The big time travels of Eric Schmidt Watching CES 2013: Storage products Watching CES 2013: Enterprise stuff Addressing WAN packet loss – go where the loss isn't Cisco at CES: Videoscape + NDS = Unity Worldwide IT spending to grow this year, Gartner says INSIDER IT pros reveal the best career advice they ever received Microsoft's 13 worst missteps of all time INSIDER Disaster recovery: Don't forget mobile Chicago CIO's IT revival plan includes the cloud Security Manager's Journal: When technologies collide WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Managing risk in the modern business world The ways in which technology penetrates corporations today have significantly changed. No longer is the IT department in control; business units are spending more of their own budgets on technology than ever before Read Now Gartner: Tablets are crushing PC sales People are buying tablets to replace old PCs, which explains why PC sales were so dismal over the holidays, according to Gartner. Read More The big time travels of Eric Schmidt Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has had quite an entourage, from President Obama to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Read More Watching CES 2013: Storage products The team at IDG Enterprise (including Network World, Computerworld and CIO.com) and the IDG News Service created more than 50 videos last week at 2013 International CES, covering everything from news events, computers, smartphones, tablets and other electronic gadgets. In this post, we are highlighting videos focusing on storage and networking gear that we saw at the show: Read More Watching CES 2013: Enterprise stuff The team at IDG Enterprise (including Network World, Computerworld and CIO.com) and the IDG News Service created more than 50 videos last week at 2013 International CES, covering everything from news events, computers, smartphones, tablets and other electronic gadgets. In this post, we are highlighting videos focusing on some of the enterprise products and news from the show. It's not just the "consumer"... Read More WEBCAST: Exinda Expert Insights on Building a User Experience Network Join guest speaker, Forrester Research, Inc. Principal Analyst Andre Kindness and First State Bank IT leader Tristan Smith as they discuss the importance of putting end-users at the forefront of your network design. Learn More. Addressing WAN packet loss – go where the loss isn't We continue our discussion of what can be done to address the impact of packet loss on application performance over the WAN. In our previous 3 columns, we've covered five of the six different possibilities listed in the first column of this arc. Read More Cisco at CES: Videoscape + NDS = Unity Late last year, Cisco unveiled its "Internet of Everything" vision, complete with TV commercials and a whole bunch of marketing activity. The vision of "IoE" is simple. When you live in a world where everything is connected, it significantly changes the way we "work, live, learn and play" (to quote Chambers). The transition to the Internet of Everything will be the biggest change we've seen... Read More Worldwide IT spending to grow this year, Gartner says Enterprises that buy new mobile devices and invest in security and storage management will give worldwide IT spending a boost this year. Read More INSIDER IT pros reveal the best career advice they ever received In today's culture, advice on nearly any topic - relationships, health, career - is just a mouse click, touchscreen tap or Siri query away. There's even a Web site called shouldidoit.com that promises to help you make decisions in your daily life. But while you can get some good insights on the many expert and general discussion forums that pop up on the Web, there's often a sense that something is missing from that experience. Call it the human touch. Read More 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 Microsoft's 13 worst missteps of all time DOS 4.0, Zune, and Windows 8 are but a few of the landmarks among 25 years of failures Redmond-style Read More INSIDER Disaster recovery: Don't forget mobile As the mobile workforce continues to grow, IT execs must remember the importance of including mobile technology in their disaster recovery plans. Insider (registration required) Read More Chicago CIO's IT revival plan includes the cloud Chicago this month disclosed that it plans to use Microsoft's cloud services to deliver email and desktop applications to some 30,000 employees, part of a significant effort to improve the city's IT operations. Read More Security Manager's Journal: When technologies collide An encryption initiative runs into the law of unintended consequences, since the legal department can't search encrypted emails for e-discovery purposes. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Best of CES 2013: In pictures Here's what's grabbing our attention right now at the sprawling CES 2013 gadget show in Las Vegas. 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 Microsoft to release emergency Internet Explorer patch on Monday iPhone 6 rumor rollup for week ending Jan. 11 Chrome 24 vs. Firefox 18 - head to head VMware one-ups Microsoft with vSphere 5.1 Why entrepreneurs innovate better than managers Best of CES 2013: in pictures 5 takeaways from CES 2013 IT pros reveal the best career advice they ever received Oracle patches latest zero-day vulnerabilities in Java Best practices to mitigate DDoS attacks
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