Health privacy undermined: Worst breaches of 2009 Octo-mom, ransom notes and stolen Blackberries entangled in these tales of health information breaches and lost medical records Half of new servers are virtualized, survey finds More than half of new servers installed in 2009 will be virtualized, and that number will hit 80% by 2012. Qwest upgrading backbone to 100Gbps Qwest has started upgrading its Ethernet backbone to 100Gbps, a project that the company says it will work on all throughout 2010. Cisco, VMware create method for long-distance VMotion Cisco and VMware announced a method for using VMware's VMotion across data centers that are located as far apart as 125 miles. Microsoft offers free Windows 7 RTM trial Microsoft on Tuesday offered a free 90-day trial of the final version of Windows 7 , saying that the three-month free ride is for IT professionals. Microsoft offers Hyper-V as free download Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet to VMware by launching the lastest version of its Hyper-V hypervisor as a free download, cheekily offering the software to coincide with the first day of the VMworld show in San Francisco. Red Hat bolsters system management tools Red Hat Wednesday released the latest version of its system management tools, the first version based on its year-old open source project Spacewalk project. Google's Gmail Fail Casts Dark Cloud on 'Cloud Computing' Tuesday's Gmail outage was not only an inconvenience; it calls into question--yet again--the feasibility of present day cloud computing. Enterprises Want WAN Optimization to Work Across Companies Back in June we predicted that WAN optimization customers will want to extend their acceleration solutions across company boundaries. We just tested our hypothesis with a survey, and validated that enterprises do indeed want their WAN optimization solution to work with those of their business partners and customers. Deep-space clouds smell like mothballs? There are few things in this world that smell as bad as mothballs and it's a little disheartening to hear today that space might reek like the pungent balls of stench. Zapping things from the sky: Airborne Boeing laser blasts ground target The airborne military laser which promises to destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage has for the first time actually blown something up. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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