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iPad Invades Corporate America

Five Trends Shaping Data Center Designs | The Best Windows 7 Downloads

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iPad Invades Corporate America
Despite all claims by PC purists that the iPad is a toy that has no real purpose--especially in the corporate world, there are large enterprises embracing the tablet device. It may be designed as a portable media consumption device for consumers, but the iPad also provides a unique mobile computing platform for business as well. 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. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

WHITE PAPER: Cisco

Learn the 3 Best Practices for Securing E-mail
Any IT manager will tell you it's critical to protect data. With information flowing freely today via mobile devices, collaboration technologies and unified communications, it isn't easy. Learn data leak prevention (DLP) triage and the steps to protect proprietary data in e-mail, while also complying with government and industry regulations. Read now!

Five Trends Shaping Data Center Designs
In the past, companies built data centers like parents buy clothes for their children: Buy big and wait for the kids to grow into them. Read More

The Best Windows 7 Downloads
Not quite happy with the way Windows 7 works, or looking to get more out of the operating system? You've come to the right place. We're big fans of Microsoft's latest OS, but we're also big fans of making Windows better. In this article, we've rounded up the best Windows 7 downloads. They'll let you customize it in any way possible, give it features that Microsoft removed or neglected to include, and more. So get ready to download--you're about to take Windows 7 to a new level. Read More


WEBCAST: Accelops

Yankee Group on Cloud Considerations
Cloud computing's perceived challenges of security, visibility and management may give the upper hand to private clouds. Join Yankee Group for this Webcast that discusses how to ensure you deploy a cloud that meets your organization's security and compliance needs. View Now

Websense promotes DLP freebie
Websense Thursday is announcing that it's making its data-loss prevention (DLP) suite free for 30 days under a "DLP for Download" program. Read More

Updated BlackBerry security features aimed at boosting corporate use
RIM Wednesday unveiled a new version of its Blackberry Enterprise Server that includes features aimed at allaying security fears of IT managers. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Qualys Inc.

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!

Firefox 4 Beta 1: A Visual Tour
Mozilla recently released the first beta version of Firefox 4, the next iteration of the world's second most popular browser (after Internet Explorer). The new Firefox offers the usual under-the-hood tweaks you'd expect, such as improved security and better page rendering, and it also supports WebM, Google's new open video standard project. But more importantly to the average user, Firefox 4 offers a refreshed layout and appearance. Here's a look at some of the highlights. Read More

IBM and EU establish cloud-computing consortium
IBM on Wednesday said it was establishing a consortium with the European Union and universities to research new cloud-computing models to reduce the cost of hosting and maintaining Internet-based services. Read More

Free products dominate security software market
High brand visibility from large security vendors doesn't necessarily mean that their products dominate the market, according to a new study of security software. Read More

15 percent of XP users risk security blackout
As July 13 approaches, when Microsoft will end support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and users will no longer receive critical security updates, a PC Advisor poll has found that 15.1 percent of XP users are still using SP2 or earlier. Read More



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