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So you think you know Skype?; 100G Ethernet cheat sheet Daily News AM Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by HP Rethinking Business Continuance – Driving data availability up and costs down. While server virtualization has provided solutions that help with business continuance strategies, many traditional SANs do not provide effective support for the storage availability that server virtualization requires. Review this whitepaper on the need for an integrated HA and DR strategy. Learn more Spotlight Story The 5 best and 5 worst features of Google Chrome OS Google demonstrated a prototype of Chrome OS on Thursday and invited the open source community to participate in its development. Chrome OS is lauded by its makers as a completely new method of personal computing and it does have a number of features that are intriguing. On the other hand, the device is really another incarnation of a concept that has been around a long while, the thin client mobile Internet device. Read full story Related News: So you think you know Skype? Here are 10 trivia questions to prove it. 100G Ethernet cheat sheet With enterprises and carriers moving beyond 1G and 10G Ethernet to 40G and 100G Ethernet, we thought it might be handy to bundle up our most recent coverage of high-speed Ethernet in one tidy package. Cisco leading in 10G Ethernet data center deployments To the surprise of no one, Cisco is the leading vendor of 10G Ethernet to data centers and everybody else. Yet it's 10G data center deployments that accounted for the second consecutive quarter of growth for the Ethernet switch market in Q3, according to Dell'Oro Group. Al Gore: Supercomputers can reverse climate change Supercomputing technology, according to Al Gore, will aid the expansion of renewable energy use and create models that help people understand the severity of global warming. Microsoft denies it built 'backdoor' in Windows 7 Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced on Wednesday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. Money transfers to become hottest mobile app, says Gartner Money transfers and payments over mobile phones will be among the top 10 most important mobile applications by 2012, market research company Gartner said on Wednesday. Still dreaming of a unified network of everything Many in our industry have dreamed of a unified network, and we continue to close in on it. But the truth is we've been closing in on it for quite a long time. 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