The oddest places to find Linux

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	The oddest places to find Linux Open source isn't just a license or a coding methodology, to many it's a religion. And the central prayer of that religion is an ode to Linux. In the spirit of such love, Linux has begun to sprout up everywhere. Here's a compilation of some of the more surprising places you'll find this beloved operating system. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Improve Productivity by Optimizing your SSL VPN Are you getting all you can from your SSL VPN? Read this whitepaper to find out Learn More In this Issue iPad Wish List: 10 Things I'd Like on iPad 2.0 BofA insider to plead guilty to hacking ATMs Threat of cyberattacks from overseas high, federal IT execs say Will you trust your company to the iPad 3G? 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You know, the one that EVERYONE will want to buy, not just those of us in the "early adopter / Apple fanboy / IT media" space. (sidetrack: Is it weird that 300,000 iPads sold feels like not many because of all the hype?) Read More BofA insider to plead guilty to hacking ATMs A Bank of America computer specialist is set to plead guilty to charges that he hacked the bank's automated tellers to dispense cash without recording the activity. Read More Threat of cyberattacks from overseas high, federal IT execs say A survey released Tuesday by Lumension Security highlighted growing fears among federal IT security officials of cyberattacks being launched against critical U.S. infrastructure targets by foreign adversaries in the near future. Read More Will you trust your company to the iPad 3G? I have been talking to many CIOs in the last two weeks who have expressed a concern that the iPad 3G version will fail and their workers with it. Concerns are growing over the AT&T network with the upcoming release of the 3G version of the iPad. Read More : ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Microsoft tries to simplify supercomputing with Windows HPC Server beta Microsoft's quest to make a name for itself in the high-performance computing world took a step forward this week with a new beta version of Windows HPC Server that Microsoft says will improve scalability and simplify supercomputing. Read More NetApp to purchase storage virtualization vendor Bycast NetApp is planning to acquire Bycast, a storage virtualization vendor, in an attempt to improve its object-based storage capabilities. Read More Mystery solved: Why time stands still at 9:42 on iPhone The question has caused me and countless others many a sleepless night (OK, many a fruitless hour) for the better part of three years: Why in the name of Steve Jobs does every picture of every iPhone in every Apple ad show the time as 9:42. Always 9:42. Read More Apple stock continues to soar to new heights Riding high on a wave of good press for the iPad, and buoyed by an impressive 300,00 units sold on day 1, Apple's share price continues to soar to new heights. One month before the iPad release, Apple was trading at $209 a share. Since then, it's been steadily climbing upwards and earlier today it was trading at $241.43, marking an all-time intraday high for the stock. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Tolly Group Performance Report Tolly Report: "Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP" shows you how Citrix NetScaler beat F5 in head-to-head tests - providing 3X faster Web traffic, lower latency and higher throughput. Learn More! Nokia plans to unveil tablet by this fall, analyst says Mobile phone giant Nokia is reportedly working to design a tablet computer that would take on Apple's iPad and others when it ships by this fall. Read More Universal broadband access? Not yet! One of the recurring themes in our newsletters over the years has been primary and backup high-speed access for supporting teleworkers as a part of the overall telecommunication network infrastructure. In fact, almost 15 years ago Steve was writing about the need to make sure that you were within a given number of cable-feet from a central office (or appropriate repeater) in order to receive ISDN service. Read More Podcast: Why Hackers Love the Cloud The growth of cloud services has led many enterprises to move data and applications to the cloud, but the hacker community is also moving there. With content consolidation and multi-tenant infrastructures comes more opportunities for hackers to steal data or conduct DDoS attacks with greater ease. Danny McPherson, VP and Chief Security Officer at Arbor Networks, discusses some of the ways hackers are eyeing cloud services and what IT can to to face these threats. (12:51) Read More Air Force wants reusable rocket ships The Air Force today said it would launch a program that would bring it reusable rockets that could carry military payloads into space and return to Earth. Read More
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