Management vision of Cisco's Chambers under fire; Top 10 open source apps for Windows; Experts try to decipher Twitter attack

Top 10 open source apps for Windows, at a glance; Security experts scramble to decipher Twitter attack Daily News PM Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by HP - NWW IDC: Realizing the Benefits of Deduplication Many organizations are grappling with rapidly growing storage requirements. IDC has found that those organizations are experiencing 50% growth in data, adding as much as 4TB of data each year. Spotlight Story Management vision of Cisco CEO John Chambers under fire Ben Worthen of The Wall Street Journal wrote a very revealing article this week on the Cisco management structure designed by Cisco CEO John Chambers. Read full story Related News: Top 10 open source apps for Windows, at a glance Every Windows user should consider making these utilities part of their standard applications. Security experts scramble to decipher Twitter attack Security analysts scrambled to find a motive behind the distributed denial-of-service attacks that brought down Twitter for several hours, and also hit Facebook, Google and LiveJournal. Cisco restructurings are over Cisco is done with its limited restructurings -- those incremental workforce reductions, some of which evade public disclosure. The company exceeded its goal of reducing expenses by $1.5 billion in fiscal 2009, which ended in late July. SNARE, Gazelle, Vanish, Nemesis and Nozzle: sounds like quite the wild security conference Anti-spam techniques, more secure browsers and e-mail are among researchers' focus areas to be discussed at Usenix event. IBM union: Layoffs could hit 16,000 by year's end Based on a count by the Alliance@IBM, at least 10,000 IBM employees have already been culled from the company's workforce so far this year because of the recession and offshoring. Windows 7 adoption chart Microsoft has posted a chart for Windows 7 adoption; the who and where on acquiring the new OS. Google CEO Eric Schmidt worked on Apple's board for free Interestingly enough, a review of Apple's SEC filings indicates that Schmidt received no monetary compensation for his role as an Apple board member. August Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Black Hat's best How well you remember the Black Hat conference's most notorious incidents? Wireless burning questions How much longer are you going to hang onto that Ethernet cable? 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Click here to continue.   August 07, 2009 TOP STORIES | MOST DUGG STORIES Cyber attackers empty business accounts in minutes Five ways to get affordable certification skills Windows president tries to calm fears of Win 7 critical bug Apple's mysterious iProd gets an upgrade Critical Windows 7 bug risks derailing product launch Twitter goes down under DoS attack How virtualization is changing the way we build networks Top 10 iPhone annoyances (and how to fix them) Cisco outage due to human error Build an inexpensive, high-performance PC for Win7 Stopping Fraud Before it Impacts your Network Better protect your corporate assets with a solution that integrates with existing security devices and adds comprehensive analysis including: Correlation, anomaly detection and pattern discover. Discover the benefits of using holistic reporting, visual analytics and incident response tools. Learn More Compare products, get advice, and check out tests and reviews from the experts at Network World. 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