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	Eight great virtual appliances for VMware, free for the downloading The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances you'll find. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Top 3 Best Practices for Virtualization Management Get virtualization right and make the most of your investments in the technology. Download this whitepaper today and examine the top 3 best practices for virtual infrastructure management. Read now! In this Issue How a Global IT Revamp Is Fueling Ford's Turnaround Sources: Net neutrality compromise not reached Verizon uses VMware for enterprise cloud service VMware's ex-Microsoft exec Paul Maritz says Windows no longer center of innovation Water cooling returns to IBM mainframe Is your network ready for HD videoconferencing? Intel aims to be a powerhouse in mobile Microsoft still mum on programs prone to DLL hijacking attacks Foursquare + MTV = 411 on STDs Page-load survey informs net neutrality debate Are Web Browsers Going the Way of the Dinosaur? Gmail Prioritization: More of This, Please WHITE PAPER: Sprint Start Deploying UC Immediately Yankee Group analyzes the Unified Communications market and makes recommendations for businesses looking to accelerate a UC deployment. Break the status quo and migrate to SIP trunking as a simple, cost-effective method of increasing the value of the network and leveraging any investments already made in VoIP. Read More How a Global IT Revamp Is Fueling Ford's Turnaround Since 2005, Ford has cut costs by more than $10 billion and shed nearly half its brands; it offers 45 models this year compared to 97 in 2006. By 2012, the company plans to center its manufacturing efforts on 15 vehicle platforms, down from 27 three years ago. The goal: design cars globally for global consumption. IT is at the heart of the corporate U-turn. Read More Sources: Net neutrality compromise not reached A brokerage firm report overstates that companies negotiating network neutrality rules have agreed to a compromise, according to two sources close to the discussions. Read More Verizon uses VMware for enterprise cloud service Verizon Business is tapping into the popularity of VMware technology with a cloud computing service designed to let customers easily move workloads between their own infrastructure and Verizon's cloud. Read More VMware's ex-Microsoft exec Paul Maritz says Windows no longer center of innovation Windows and operating systems in general have lost their status as the center of innovation in the IT industry, VMware CEO Paul Maritz, himself a former Microsoft executive, said as VMworld kicked off Tuesday. 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! Water cooling returns to IBM mainframe IBM next week will add water-cooling to a mainframe offering for the first time in 15 years; the company has started offering the technology fror blade servers and supercomputers in recent years. Read More Is your network ready for HD videoconferencing? Over the years, the use of videoconferencing has been touted as the "next big thing," and, indeed, we are now seeing great advances. In particular, the emergence of telepresence stands ready to finally have a major impact on the way we do business. Read More Intel aims to be a powerhouse in mobile Intel wants to be a force in the mobile computing world -- a fact that it made clear when it announced plans to acquire chip maker Infineon's wireless division and security software provider McAfee. Read More Microsoft still mum on programs prone to DLL hijacking attacks Microsoft on Tuesday again abstained from naming which of its Windows programs, if any, contain bugs that could lead to widespread "DLL load hijacking" attacks. 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 Foursquare + MTV = 411 on STDs You've worried too long about that recurring rash - the one where no one wants a recurring rash -- and finally mustered the will to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases. What's next? Why tell the Internet, of course. Read More Page-load survey informs net neutrality debate About a third of Internet users will abandon slow-loading websites within five seconds, and users of mobile devices expect website performance to be as good as it is on wired computers, according to a new survey that may have implications for the network neutrality debate in the U.S. Read More Are Web Browsers Going the Way of the Dinosaur? In the August issue of Wired Magazine, there is an interesting article "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet" which looks at the issue of no longer needing a web browser to interact on the Internet. Read More Gmail Prioritization: More of This, Please If you're not bugged out by computer algorithms deciding what's important, Gmail's new priority inbox should seem like a revelation. Read More
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