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	It does not take a village -- or a country olumnist Scott Bradner says concerns of a "cyberwar" miss the main threat to network infrastructures. To date, essentially all cyberattacks where the perpetrators have been identified have been the work of small groups of individuals. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. In this Issue Seven ethical questions Big trade show week - DEMO and CTIA Iron Geek Triathlon: The Video The Google giant begins to topple How Open Source Led the Blogging Revolution Is this the year the proprietary CMS dies? Will Open Source Video Finally Kill Adobe Flash? Steve Jobs May Be Sorry What He Wished For Cloud ROI calculation can be hard to pin down Cisco CRS-3 to disrupt Hollywood? Microsoft being evil and a CMS being very, very good. WHITE PAPER: Storwize Inside New Data Compression Technology Meet the demanding primary storage requirements for random access, high transaction volumes and high throughput. Examine how real-time compression tackles key requirements for primary storage data, including; performance, simplicity, data reduction, and high availability. Learn more Seven ethical questions Gibbs ponders business ethics and has seven questions for you. What do you think? And why? Read More Big trade show week - DEMO and CTIA We're about two hours away from the kickoff of DEMO Spring 10 in Palm Desert, Calif., where more than 60 startups will be on stage demonstrating products and services. Get a head start on the companies showing stuff by viewing this slide show. Read More Iron Geek Triathlon: The Video Yes, we went through with it. As part of the fun at South by Southwest Interactive 2010 in Austin, Texas, a bunch of us created the first annual "Iron Geek Triathlon", a series of three competitive events aimed at crowning the true geek champion. Watch on. Read More WHITE PAPER: Virtela Overcoming Single Provider MPLS Limitations Frost & Sullivan review the limitations associated with a single-provider approach to MPLS networks and its impact on the enterprise. They then examine Virtela's Global Service Fabric - a multi-carrier network approach that provides a best-of-breed global MPLS network solution. Read More! The Google giant begins to topple Last week, Facebook hit a major milestone: the site officially received more traffic than Google, thanks to the activities of its more than 400 million users. Read More How Open Source Led the Blogging Revolution When I first started blogging about 5 years ago I asked my blogging mentor, Brad Feld what to use for blogging software. Brad told me there were only three real choices, Blogger, Moveable Type and Word Press. All these years later, Word Press, the open source blogging platform has clearly established itself as the leader of the blogging revolution. Read More Is this the year the proprietary CMS dies? To listen to folks at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival, the proprietary Content Management System is on its deathbed. And it may well be not too much of a stretch to believe that's the case. Read More WHITE PAPER: N-able Tackling Top 4 IT Pain Points of Midsize Business Learn how to address the "big four" pain points for IT managers, the perils of point solutions, the power of services automation , questions to ask before choosing an IT automation solution, key requirements of an IT automation solution, and how to optimize your IT infrastructure. Read now. Will Open Source Video Finally Kill Adobe Flash? Steve Jobs May Be Sorry What He Wished For All the buzz is that HTML5 will signal the death knell for Adobe Flash. Many would say good riddance, especially Apple's Steve Jobs, whose steadfast refusal to support the technology has left many iPhone users with a crippled web browsing experience (including this blogger). But Jobs should be careful of what he wishes for. Read More Cloud ROI calculation can be hard to pin down Cloud computing is right about at the same place today as the Web was in 1997."Large potential, a huge market, but at the same time a lot of hype, a lot of uncertainty," said M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of Sand Hill Group, a consulting firm for software companies, at a conference called Cloud Connect that concluded today in Santa Clara, Calif. Read More Cisco CRS-3 to disrupt Hollywood? Amazing the alarm bells that hype can sound. Cisco's claims that the new CRS-3 core router's 322Tbps capacity can download every movie ever made in four minutes has Hollywood quaking, according to TIME.it could be the business equivalent of an earthquake for the likes of Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures. Read More Microsoft being evil and a CMS being very, very good. Mark Gibbs complains about Microsoft's Office Live Workspace Beta, which apparently can't be removed and ocPortal, a FOSS CMS solution that he thinks is amazingly good. Read More
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