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	Droid X vs. the Droid: Key differences emerge Although Motorola's Droid X and Droid smartphones bear similar names, they are very different devices. It has become clear that the Droid X should really not be seen as a sequel to the original Droid but rather a different model of smartphone altogether. Read More WHITE PAPER: 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. 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Their analysis includes hard dollar ROI and benefits of the following features: • Application-level view of networks and servers • Visibility into end-to-end application delivery dependencies • Network behavioral analysis • Metrics to track performance SLAs Read now! Pimp Your Laptop Skin it, stick it, etch it, paint it -- check out these ways to make your laptop PC look unique without breaking it (or your bank account). Read More Apple's antenna guru reportedly warned execs about iPhone 4 design Apple's lead antenna expert repeatedly warned that placing the iPhone 4 antenna outside the phone would lead to signal loss and dropped calls, according to a Bloomberg News report. Read More Apple had better give iPhone 4 owners free cases, say crisis experts Facing mounting public relations troubles over the iPhone 4, Apple must act swiftly to quell customer complaints about poor reception by giving away free cases, crisis communication experts say. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Best Practices for Design, Architecture and Management This document provides NetApp best practices for architecting, sizing, and deploying a VMware® VDI environment on NetApp® storage. Learn more. Verizon's Droid X: 12 Apps to Get You Started Ladies and gentlemen, the newest Droid has officially landed. Here are some apps to get you started. Read More Researchers: Password crack could affect millions A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at an upcoming security conference. Read More Cloud security strategies: Where does IDS fit in? Security practitioners diving into cloud computing must make older security tools like IDS work in this new world. In a CSO podcast last week, Stu Wilson, CTO of IDS provider Endace, sought to explain how this older technology is still relevant in enterprise cloud security strategies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys Justifying IT Security The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk. Read now! Microsoft set to co-fund Windows Phone 7 software development Company is willing provide developers with support, including possible co-funding, a tactic the company says isn't new. Read More Standard proposed for measuring data center efficiency A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results. Read More Amazon and IBM are the 'cloud champions,' report says Amazon and IBM are the "cloud champions" but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware and right behind them. Read More Actually, Windows Phone 7 Could be Microsoft's 'Vista' A taste of the old Apple-Microsoft rivalry came back this week when a Microsoft executive threw Windows Vista under the bus, just to bash the iPhone 4's antenna problems. Read More Cisco tops in IPS: survey Cisco is the "top dog" in a recent customer survey of the leading Intrusion Prevention System vendors conducted by Infonetics Research. The June survey queried IPS buyers at 105 US and Canadian companies with at least 100 employees. Read More
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