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	Cisco bets state-of-the-art data center on UCS Cisco bet big on its UCS products for data centers – and now it's going "all in" with a massive, resilient and green data center built on that integrated blade architecture. Read More WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Online Server Backup Checklist Small businesses are quickly adopting the cloud as an alternative way to back up their critical data. If you haven't yet made the move to the cloud, attend this webcast to explore what to look for in an online backup solution to save you time, money and free up your precious IT resources. Learn more! In this Issue Danger to IE users climbs as hacker kit adds exploit Hackers Break Microsoft's Kinect Security IT's biggest money wasters President Obama: offshoring fears are outdated, unwarranted How to kill the 'Net Cisco VP talks of data center strategy Brocade still struggling in Ethernet How default app installs can compromise Apache Cisco CleanAir battles Wi-Fi smog Can HP change its culture? 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Read More IT's biggest money wasters Learn how to rescue precious resources from tech's six most notorious money pits. Read More President Obama: offshoring fears are outdated, unwarranted The perception that Indian call centers and back office operations cost U.S. jobs is an old stereotype that ignores today's reality that two-way trade between the U.S. and India is helping create jobs and raise the standard of living in both countries, U.S. President Barack Obama told a gathering of business executives in Mumbai on Saturday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Reduce Your Backup Burden Data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. Read now How to kill the 'Net Gibbs mashes up Prince and legislation and sees the death of the Internet. Read More Cisco VP talks of data center strategy Cisco Vice President of IT John Manville discusses the company's data center makeover strategy, the migration to the company's own Unified Computing System, the benefits of cloud and the new IT organizational structure with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix. Read More Brocade still struggling in Ethernet Brocade's Ethernet business is still challenged as the company prepares to announce fourth quarter results, reports investment for Oppenheimer & Co. in a quarterly preview bulletin. There's growing interest in a new line of switches that Brocade will soon announce but the company still hasn't "fully addressed" its Ethernet impediments, the firm states. Read More How default app installs can compromise Apache Defying good security practice, the Joomla content management system asks its users to reconfigure the Apache Web server software to a potentially dangerous setting, according to an Apache developer. 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