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	Ghoulish gadgets: cool Halloween tech Some would say that Halloween is not a techie-type holiday. To those people I, and the creative (read: demented) makers of these gadgets, say "Boo!" Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. Read now! In this Issue Cisco/EMC: The rumor that keeps on giving Should Microsoft roll over and play dead to Open Office? EMC stock rises on Oracle buyout rumor Forrester downgrades US IT spending forecast Most popular stories this week: Oct. 15 W is for Wi-Fi [video] Full-tilt boogie networking: Cisco's FabricPath vs. IETF TRILL Web 'more important than gas and water' for firms More than 11 million tablets will be shipped this year eBay to use Joomla as the 'open source glue' Free min.us photo sharing service has many pluses WHITE PAPER: NetApp Are you Asking the Right Questions on Storage Decisions? You can't make the best storage decisions for your business if you're not asking the right questions. This new RFP template makes it easy. It reflects today's IT reality and includes the key criteria to consider so you can position your organization for the future. Learn more! Cisco/EMC: The rumor that keeps on giving Another thing we can count on just as frequently and regularly is another round of speculation that Cisco will acquire storage titan EMC. Wait a minute, you say... this time - this week - it's Oracle that will buy EMC, not Cisco! Ah, but the breezes swirling behind the gusts of the Oracle/EMC speculation are those we can count on every season: that Cisco will actually buy data center partner EMC. Read More Should Microsoft roll over and play dead to Open Office? OK all of you Microsoft haters, take your bloomers back down from being twisted around your necks. Microsoft put out a YouTube bashing a competitor and everyone is yelling that Microsoft went back on their word and they hate Open Source after all. Is Microsoft not allowed to compete against open source alternatives?  Of course they are. In doing so it does not mean they hate open source. Read More EMC stock rises on Oracle buyout rumor Speculation that Oracle might buy EMC has pushed EMC's stock price up about 5% on Thursday, even as several analysts called such an acquisition unlikely. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage for Windows Environments This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server data along with your Windows files using NetApp storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments. Read More! Forrester downgrades US IT spending forecast Forrester Research is now predicting U.S. IT spending to grow 8.1 percent this year, a slight drop from the analyst firm's July prediction of a 9.9 percent uptick, according to a new report released Friday. Read More Most popular stories this week: Oct. 15 The most-viewed stories at Network World for the week ending Oct. 15. Check out the full list. Read More W is for Wi-Fi [video] It's time again for our IT instructors, Mr. I.T. Jinglehopper and his assistant, Jackson, to talk about an IT term and letter of the alphabet. Watch them tackle the letter W and the world of Wi-Fi. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Click to Continue Full-tilt boogie networking: Cisco's FabricPath vs. IETF TRILL There are two technologies emerging that will rock the data center design foundation to its very core, Cisco's FabricPath and the IETF standard, Transparent Interconnetion of Lots of Links (TRILL). That's a bold statement, I know, but when we are talking about removing STP from the data center, and still maintaining large L2 domains, it is significant. Read More Web 'more important than gas and water' for firms Small businesses think broadband is more important than gas and water supplies, says XLN Telecom. Read More More than 11 million tablets will be shipped this year More than 11 million tablets will be shipped worldwide this year, says ABI Research. Read More eBay to use Joomla as the 'open source glue' eBay is well-known as a lover of open source. When I heard it signed the Joomla! Contributor Agreement as part of its plans to build a cutting-edge social network for 16,000 employees, my first thought was "Will eBay be building an open source auction app for Joomla?" Short answer: no. Long answer, the project has even better ramifications for corporate use of open source. Read More Free min.us photo sharing service has many pluses A pair of Boston-area entrepreneurs have launched a free photo-sharing service called min.us that makes distributing slideshows of your pictures as simple as dragging and dropping them onto a Web page, then sending out a resulting short URL via email, Twitter or Facebook. 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 Goodies from the Subnets We've got 15 copies of books up for grabs: Cisco Nexus Switching and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed. Enter to win one! SLIDESHOWS Seven secret weapons for network management on a budget I am constantly looking for new open source tools that can make my life easier or allow me to assess client network environments. Here are some of my favorites, including a few lesser-known treasures. The first Windows Phone 7 smartphones Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung all unveiled smartphones running the Windows Phone 7 OS. In the United States, the GSM phones will be available on AT&T and T-Mobile beginning in November. (CDMA phones, such as the HTC 7 Pro on Sprint, will be available in first half of 2011.) Here's a first look at the new phones. Has Microsoft been successful with its mobile overhaul? MOST-READ STORIES Cisco's top 10 rivals Tech hiring up almost 50% since 2009, Dice says Gang uses Facebook to rob houses Kitchen tech: From ingenious to absurd IMDb turning 20 on Sunday Human error gave spammers keys to Microsoft systems What will Android 3.0 look like? All hail the open-source time machine! Microsoft Wiffler lets smartphones use free Wi-Fi from moving vehicles Cloud computing security skeptics abound
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