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Monday, February 23, 2009

2009 Best of the Tests winners; Techies end-run feds on DNS security; Citrix makes hypervisor free

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2009 Best of the Tests winners
By Christine Burns
Out of the more than 150 products tested by our Lab Alliance members last year, a baker's dozen rise to the top of the list. They excel in performance, usability and enterprise feature functionality. Check them out

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A survey of 945 individuals who were laid off, fired or quit their jobs in the past 12 months shows that 59% admitted to stealing company data and 67% used their former company’s confidential information to leverage a new job. Citrix today is making its core +virtualization platform free, and announcing an enhanced partnership with Microsoft to promote interoperability between Citrix’s XenServer hypervisor and Microsoft’s Hyper-V software. (5:22)

Techies end-run feds on DNS security
The Internet engineering community is forging ahead with an alternative approach to allow DNSSEC deployment without the DNS root zone being signed. Known as a Trust Anchor...

Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero
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AT&T makes $1 billion ’09 network investment
AT&T will invest $1 billion this year to expand and upgrade its global network with a particular emphasis on rolling out more business applications such as managed hosting.

Just what has DARPA accomplished in recent decades?
Monash: DARPA is legendary as the sponsor of what became the Internet. More generally, it has an outstanding reputation as being that great oddity, a government agency that works, creatively and efficiently. And so, when I was thinking about ways the US government could usefully support the technology industry, my thoughts naturally turned to DARPA, and the possibility of creating civilian DARPA analogues. But a glitch soon appeared in this line of analysis -- I found I couldn't think of anything much tha DARPA has accomplished in the past 30-35 years.

More than half of booted workers steal data on way out, survey finds
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EMC adds flash to another array and de-dupes primary storage
EMC Monday is introducing three storage arrays with options for solid-state disks, and is offering de-duplication and compression of primary storage for the first time.

Fed agencies push new security audits
Several federal agencies today expressed backing for the "Consensus Audit Guidelines," a set of proposed 20 cybersecurity controls, that could end up as network and...

Engineers Not Scientists Will Rescue the Economy: Part II
Sevcik and Wetzel: Our recent blog "Engineers Not Scientists Will Rescue the Economy" roused strong reaction among some Network World readers and within a mailing list of ex-BBN employees who played a major role in making the Internet possible. Some faulted us for pitting engineering against science, which was not our intent. We wanted to point out that given proper resources and encouragement, engineers can jump-start the economy now - while scientists are better positioned to lay groundwork for breakthroughs that will help the economy in the future. The fact is that both science and engineering are needed to understand and positively change the world around us.


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02/23/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Conflicker worm gets an evil twin
  2. Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero
  3. Bring in the iPhone clones
  4. Five fantastic open source tools for Windows admins
  5. 9 dirty tricks: Social engineers' favorite pick-up lines
  6. More than half of booted workers steal data on way out
  7. Proposed law might make Wi-Fi users help cops
  8. Lessons from a light socket
  9. A $99,999 keyboard is the best bargain I've seen yet
  10. Forget the Oscars: Sit back for the 404 Awards


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