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	iPad lures business users Doctors, lawyers and businesspeople are using iPads to ease their workloads, but many observers say Apple's tablet isn't ready to replace laptops for functions such as writing long documents. 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 In this Issue Facebook, Google, Others Sued by Paul Allen Sign of the apocalypse or the times? Cisco Unified Computing System is 75% Networking - Who Knew? American Eagle Outfitters learns a painful service provider lesson Citrix buys VMLogix What the Dell/HP 3Par Buyout Really Means Research experiment disrupts Internet, for some Telstra becomes first to offer HSPA+ at 42M bps Podcast: Top Money-Savers and Money-Wasters in Cloud Computing Purdue app slows servers when cooling fails Why you should use your smartphone as your credit card WHITE PAPER: Compuware Applications: 6 Articles on the Latest Thinking This eGuide addresses application performance management efforts, especially those supporting next-generation enterprise initiatives and better coordination between IT and users. These articles explore the latest thinking on application performance management tools and best practices. Read now Facebook, Google, Others Sued by Paul Allen The co-founder of Microsoft has filed a patent lawsuit against some of the tech industry's highest fliers. Named as defendants in the litigation are AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo and YouTube. Also named in the suit were Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples. Read More Sign of the apocalypse or the times? Our children had their birthday last week and reaped a bounty of new games for the Wii, including one sure to be regretted by their parents, Band Hero. Yes, we're concerned about how much time they spend on this pastime, but at least we can take comfort in the fact that gaming is now apparently getting them ready for college. Or so says the University of Florida. Read More Cisco Unified Computing System is 75% Networking - Who Knew? What shocked me was how much networking is involved in UCS. This should seem as a "duh" for a Cisco product, but it hadn't occurred to me before the Firefly course. I'm writing this blog because I have a feeling a lot of my readers are traditional network engineers (LANs, WANs, Data Centers, routing, etc) and had the same initial reaction to UCS. So, if your IT server team is evaluating UCS and you're not part of it, you have a problem. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense Seven Criteria for Evaluating SaaS The right Security-as-a-Service solution can perform reliably and effectively and deliver the flexibility and control associated with on-premise solutions — at a significantly lower cost — without compromising privacy and security. Read More American Eagle Outfitters learns a painful service provider lesson A recent eight-day outage at online retailer American Eagle Outfitters showed that even the best disaster recovery plan isn't foolproof -- particularly when it's outsourced. Read More Citrix buys VMLogix Citrix plans to announce Monday that it will buy VMLogix as part of a larger push to offer more self-service tools and address concerns like vendor lock-in facing enterprises using the cloud. Read More What the Dell/HP 3Par Buyout Really Means The bidding war for 3Par ramped up this week when HP raised its offer to $30 per share, a $3 increase over Dell's bid, bringing the bidding to $2 billion. Dell had launched the opening salvo in mid-August when it had offered just over $1 billion to buy 3Par. As of this writing, 3Par had deemed HP's bid "superior" and Dell was mulling over its response. Read More DOWNLOAD: BlackBerry Free Download from RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Download Today! Research experiment disrupts Internet, for some An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday, disrupting a small percentage of Internet traffic. Read More Telstra becomes first to offer HSPA+ at 42M bps Australian mobile network operator Telstra has become the first operator to launch a mobile broadband service using HSPA+ at 42M bps (bits per second), it said on Monday. Read More Podcast: Top Money-Savers and Money-Wasters in Cloud Computing The cloud is all the rage these days, but there are still opportunities for companies to save (and waste) a lot of money. Find out what's working and what to avoid with Mark Haynie from Micro Focus. Haynie talks with Keith Shaw about the top money-savers and money-wasters of companies migrating to the cloud. (20:55) Read More Purdue app slows servers when cooling fails An administrator from Purdue University has developed software that can slow servers when the AC goes out Read More Why you should use your smartphone as your credit card A few weeks ago, Network World ran a couple of articles about using smartphones as devices to transact credit and debit payments. One article said this would be "possibly dangerous." I completely disagree with that assumption. In fact, I say using your smartphone as your credit card is much more secure than using your regular old plastic credit card. Read on to learn why this is true. Read More
	Join us on LinkedIn Discuss the networking issues of the day with your colleagues, via Network World's LinkedIn group. Join today! - Jeff Caruso, Executive Online Editor SLIDESHOWS Cloud storage lives up to the hype We tested five cloud-based storage services under real-world conditions. We set up accounts, connected with the vendor storage network, uploaded and downloaded files, measured performance and analyzed cost structures. Our conclusions are that cloud-based storage can save you money. And cloud-based storage can be fast. However, there are still security concerns that you need to be aware of. Wireless networks and mobility quiz iPhones and other handhelds bought for home use are infiltrating corporate networks, but there's a host of other wireless technologies that comprise a wave of mobile computing that is creating sweeping changes in business infrastructure. How well versed are you in the technical and not-so- technical details? MOST-READ STORIES Air Force uses real birds of prey to protect its own predators Pentagon official details U.S military net hack Microsoft: 'We love open source' Apple in talks to bring $0.99 TV rentals to iTunes Social Security Administration to award massive network deal Windows and Linux servers grow at Unix's expense Security chiefs at home: No such thing as 'off duty' Report: Sun, Microsoft and Mozilla leave the most vulnerabilities unpatched Technology's Biggest Myths Geezer Quiz 2010
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