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	Cisco in for a virtual fight VMware is lining up a Who's Who of networking vendors to take on partner/rival Cisco in network virtualization and SDNs. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch The Single Dashboard Network Monitoring and Management Tool Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold lets you monitor your networks, servers, VOIP, applications and wireless devices from a single dashboard. Rapidly discover and map your infrastructure, isolate root cause, and define policies and actions that keep your network the way you want it. From SMB to Enterprise. Try it on your network free for 30 days. In this Issue 11 things Microsoft is actually doing right New York Times site outage caused by attack on domain registrar, company says Server revenue continued slide in Q2 on weak demand, says IDC 9/11 hero & Akamai co-founder Danny Lewin recalled in new book If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smart watches, are you successful? VMware adds networking, storage to its virtual data center stack Windows 8 Update: Microsoft Windows 8 is not Ballmer's biggest regret HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists Will VMware's big gamble on network virtualization pay off? WHITE PAPER: OutSystems 11 Usability Rules for IT Developers To deliver great enterprise applications, IT needs to deliver great User Experience (UX), which is critical to achieving broad application adoption, and significantly decreasing training and support costs. This eBook explores core Usability principles IT should remember when building applications. View Now 11 things Microsoft is actually doing right From Office to Hyper-V to Azure, the much-maligned 'dying dinosaur' has a lot going for it as the Ballmer era winds down. Read More New York Times site outage caused by attack on domain registrar, company says The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company's Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. Read More Server revenue continued slide in Q2 on weak demand, says IDC The server business continued to slide in the second quarter with worldwide revenue and unit sales down, IDC said Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More 9/11 hero & Akamai co-founder Danny Lewin recalled in new book We get flooded by books at Network World, with publishers hoping we'll plug their latest titles, most of which are too technically obscure or too general (yet another management book) to be worth mentioning. Read More If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smart watches, are you successful? Sales of so-called "smart watches" will surge from 1 million to 36 million in five years, according to a speculative new report from Juniper Research. But whether that defines "success" remains an open question. Read More VMware adds networking, storage to its virtual data center stack At the kick-off of its annual VMworld user conference, being held this week in San Francisco, VMware will fill in more layers of its software stack for running its envisioned software defined data center (SDDC). Read More WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware Capitalizing on Desktop Virtualization As more than half of those surveyed by IDG move to virtual desktop infrastructure, mastering its complexities has never been more important. With the right best practices and trusted partners, you can do just that--thus accelerating time to value, simplifying deployment and management, and creating organizational agility. View Now Windows 8 Update: Microsoft Windows 8 is not Ballmer's biggest regret Even though Windows 8 incited hordes to call for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's ouster, the operating system is not what he regrets most about his 33-year tenure at the company. Read More HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists As leading HR departments turn to 'talent analytics' for a wide range of staffing issues, CIOs are at the center of this data-driven transformation Read More Will VMware's big gamble on network virtualization pay off? In unveiling its NSX software this week, VMware is looking to convince its huge base of server virtualization customers to trust it with network virtualization, too, even though many of them already look to Cisco for their primary network needs. Read More
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