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	Will the iPad live up to the hype? Apple has asked people to drop their netbooks and go with the "magical" iPad, which will be uncloaked in U.S. stores on Saturday morning. The excitement around the device is high, but will it live up to its hype? Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Paravirtualization Case Study with Buyken Metal Products When Buyken Metal Products considered re-architecting its datacenter for redundancy, it realized that its servers and other devices would need to be updated. The ability to virtualize Windows servers with paravirtualization led Buyken to Citrix XenServer, Enterprise Edition. Learn More Now In this Issue How Google wants to change telecom Glam Gadgets: The Priciest Personal Tech in the World Escalating attacks prompted emergency IE update, says Microsoft Endpoint security gets complicated Cisco rival Juniper demos 100G Ethernet What Does a Paying Open Source Customer Look Like? Hotel chain starts using child porn detection AT&T wins first major deal at EPA Sophos' April Fool's joke says romantic fiction a deterrent to hackers Winners of the massive 50-book CCNP giveaways WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! How Google wants to change telecom Google doesn't want to be your Internet service provider; rather, it wants to make your ISP behave in a more Google-friendly manner. Read More Glam Gadgets: The Priciest Personal Tech in the World Over-the-top luxury meets geeky gadgetry with glittery iPads, iPhones, iPods, laptops and more ¿ all with eye-popping price tags. Read More Escalating attacks prompted emergency IE update, says Microsoft Microsoft said that it patched the critical vulnerability in IE this week because the number of attacks jumped after news broke that the exploit had gone public. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM NWW Understanding the Dynamics for Successful Delivery Over the past decade, advances in software, hardware and networking technologies have enabled more and more technology to be woven into and around physical goods – adding value to those goods even without that technology necessarily being "embedded" in any hard-wired sense. Read More Endpoint security gets complicated Users say protecting network endpoints is becoming more difficult as the type of endpoint devices -- desktops, laptops, smartphones -- grows, making security a complex moving target. Read More Cisco rival Juniper demos 100G Ethernet Cisco rival Juniper last week demonstrated 100Gbps Ethernet interoperability with a handful of other vendors at the OFC/NFOEC optical networking conference in San Diego. Read More What Does a Paying Open Source Customer Look Like? So what does someone who pays to use open source software look like? The easy answer is they look a lot like you and I. But seriously, up until just a few years ago the idea of paying to use open source software would have been ludicrous. But as I wrote about yesterday, open source software use in the enterprise appears to be exploding. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Improving Disaster Recovery Solutions Today, many companies have established a disaster recovery strategy but have not implemented a solution due to high cost estimations. This HP white paper examines how affordable data mirroring solutions can provide higher performance, high data integrity & faster and more cost-effective disaster recovery. Read More Hotel chain starts using child porn detection The prestige Radisson Blu hotel chain has become the first in the world to roll out a new technology that can spot guests receiving or distributing real images of child porn. Read More AT&T wins first major deal at EPA AT&T won a seven-year, $29 million contract to support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's nationwide network -- the carrier's first major deal with this federal agency, which has more than 17,000 employees in Washington, D.C., 10 regional offices and 27 laboratories. Read More Sophos' April Fool's joke says romantic fiction a deterrent to hackers Who says security vendors don't have a sense of humor? Sophos Inc. today urged companies to consider hiding sensitive data in snippets of romantic literature or other diversionary text to protect the data from hackers. Read More Winners of the massive 50-book CCNP giveaways The following 50 people won one copy of one of the following five titles in a contest generously sponsored by Cisco Press. If you see your name on the list but haven't seen your notification e-mail, check your spam filter. It is very hard to word my congratulations e-mails to distinguish them from contests of dubious origins. That e-mail will tell you which prize you won. Or you can wait and be surprised... Read More
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