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	Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealths online driving exam scheduling system. Read More ARTICLE: Symantec Introducing Symantec Backup Exec 2010 Reduce your storage and management costs, while protecting more of your data than ever before. With integrated and adaptable deduplication, unified archiving and first-to-market granular recovery for virtual applications, you can ensure your company's business critical information is always protected and quickly recoverable. Click to continue In this Issue Top free troubleshooting tools for Windows IE zero-day exploit code goes public Salesforce.com outage has customers tweeting First LTE phone from Verizon expected mid-2010 News podcast: Network World 360 Cisco's CRS-3 and Wireless: Not for a While Virgin Media to trial fiber broadband over telegraph poles Google's Big New Cloud Play: Should Microsoft Be Afraid? Is the International Space Station just a costly flying lab or irreplaceable resource? E-GUIDE: HP ProCurve Standards to Soothe Networking Headaches Is you network comprised of multiple switching tiers running proprietary protocols capable of handling next-generation applications? This Network World eBook looks at open, virtual switching, unified fabrics and bandwidth of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and more. Get expert advice on how to turn your network into a more simplified, open infrastructure. Read Now. Top free troubleshooting tools for Windows These seven handy tools help you diagnose and cure a wide range of Windows ills, and they're all free for the downloading. Read More IE zero-day exploit code goes public An Israeli researcher has published exploit code for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that Microsoft had just disclosed on Tuesday. Read More Salesforce.com outage has customers tweeting Salesforce.com customers were abuzz on Twitter Thursday morning as the result of what they described as a North American outage. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP WAN Design – Don't Buy More than You Need This Gartner research note examines the methodology organizations should employ when designing a WAN. It offers advice on how to ensure that important applications are networked with sufficient performance and that there is not an "overspend" on less important applications and provides guidance on meeting unique network needs. Read Now. First LTE phone from Verizon expected mid-2010 Verizon Wireless plans to launch its first LTE-based wireless phone in mid-2011, three to six months after the carrier rolls out its new LTE network, according to a report. Read More News podcast: Network World 360 ComScore said yesterday that smartphone use is up 18% over the previous quarter, with 42 million users. And Google's Android mobile operating system is standing out as the dominant winner for the quarter. Also, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man, according to the annual Forbes magazine list released Tuesday, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either. (5:30) Read More Cisco's CRS-3 and Wireless: Not for a While I don't follow the core router market, but it's pretty clear that 322 Tb/s is a whole lot of capacity. And I'm of the belief that too much is a lot better than not enough, and that traffic loads across the board only increase over time. It would seem, then, that a product like Cisco's brand-new CRS-3 is already much too small, remarkable technological achievement though it obviously is. Read More WHITE PAPER: ShoreTel Getting the Right Foundation: Unified Communications IP telephony is moving into its second decade, most users are waiting for convergence and voice-enabled applications. Increased network efficiencies have been the benefit of IP telephony as enterprises struggle with infrastructure and organizational issues. The focus is now on converged applications, the spotlight on Unified Communications (UC). Learn more now. Virgin Media to trial fiber broadband over telegraph poles Virgin Media will use telegraph poles to extend the reach of FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) in a test in the U.K. village of Woolhampton, it said on Thursday. Read More Google's Big New Cloud Play: Should Microsoft Be Afraid? Late last week, Google made another aggressive move to stay ahead of Microsoft in the online productivity tools space by acquiring DocVerse, a startup founded by two former Microsoft employees, known for tools that let users collaborate on Microsoft Office files on the Web. Read More Is the International Space Station just a costly flying lab or irreplaceable resource? While NASA budget-keepers focus on setting future priorities for the space agency, many in the world space  community is trying to turn attention to the benefits a mostly complete. Read More
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