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Cisco Certified Network Associate Certification Turns 2: Here's what's new
By: Cisco Press author Anthony Sequeira Read More

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DDoS attack against Spamhaus was reportedly the largest in history
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. Read More

HP launches free service to secure mobile, Web apps
HP says it now has a free service called "Fortify My App" that lets anyone building mobile or Web applications upload code to the Fortify software-as-a-service and get a limited analysis about whether the code has specific vulnerabilities or design flaws. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Dell

Rapid Virtualization Deployment for Private Clouds
Effective private cloud deployment requires a virtualized environment that facilitates easy management of workloads, efficient creation and migration of virtual machines, and rapid delivery of services. Learn More

Geekiest/Techiest Easter Eggs
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Extreme Slaloms its way toward an end-to-end SDN solution
Big Switch stole many of the networking headlines this week when it announced its Switch Light software release. Switch Light, based on the open source technology Indigo, can be used on commodity white box switches to create an OpenFlow-based switch than can be used as part of a software defined network implementation. One of the elements of the press release that I felt flew under the radar, was that... Read More

WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

Application Performance Management: The End User is King
When it comes to critical applications and capabilities that impact end users and influence business results, the need for visibility into and across IT systems is critical. APM essentially creates a best-practice model that helps organizations focus on end-to-end monitoring, measuring and resolution of end-user problems. Learn More

Enterprise apps get social
Social media mania is having a huge impact on traditional business applications. Companies that are leveraging this trend are seeing significant benefits, including collaboration and data sharing in ways they've not experienced before. Read More

13 Tips to Get Business Teams to Use Your CRM System
Having a great new customer relationship management system won't be worth much until you figure out how to get everyone to use it. CRM experts provide tips on how to get members of your sales, marketing and customer service teams to actually use that expensive new CRM system. Read More

FBI's UFO file resolved nothing; 63-year old report has been viewed 1 million times
Perhaps it's because there has been a steady stream of news about asteroids flying by or hitting Earth in or maybe it's the uptick in space news having to do with Read More

Network Functions Virtualization drives revolution in telecom network architectures
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has the potential to advance significant change in the way telecom networks are built and operated. Led by seven major communications service providers, NFV provides a standards-based approach to virtualizing a range of telecom applications, thus enabling them to run on industry standard servers. Read More

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