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	Facebook, Google, Yahoo commit to 'World IPv6 Day' trial Several of the Internet's most popular Web sites - including Facebook, Google and Yahoo - have agreed to participate in the first global-scale trial of IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4. Read More WHITE PAPER: ParAccel Tackle the Most Challenging Analytic Queries Learn how a columnar-based, massively parallel processing database can provide ultra fast analytics with: • Schema-neutral, load-and-go analysis • High performance against complex SQL workloads • All-in-memory processing Read now! In this Issue In HTML5 war, Microsoft guy slams "President of the United States of Google" Facebook Wants to Issue Your Internet Driver's Licence Kama Sutra malware threatens to put Windows users in awkward position NetApp to acquire Akorri Networks Sign of the digital times: Sony shutting plant that used to make 18M CDs a month Survey on PCI: How it's impacting network security The 20 Most Anticipated Video Games of 2011 The 7 Most Overrated Games of 2010 WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Long-Term Data Retention – Key Considerations Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long-term business requirements. Recent technological developments in disk backup have had a positive impact on short-term data retention strategy. This tool provides key topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans. Read Now In HTML5 war, Microsoft guy slams "President of the United States of Google" Microsoft and Google are fighting yet another public relations battle, this time over the HTML5 video standards to be used in the next generation of Web browsers. Read More Facebook Wants to Issue Your Internet Driver's Licence President Obama put the U.S. Commerce Department in charge of a cybersecurity effort to give each American a unique Internet ID. But Facebook also wants to supply your unique Internet ID and its identity infrastructure is already on millions of websites. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Storage Virtualization isn't About Storage With real storage virtualization, according to the report, you can improve operational efficiency and drive down costs. And you can do this without sacrificing – or while even improving flexibility – giving you the ability to "continuously migrate" applications as a part of normal business operations. Read Now Kama Sutra malware threatens to put Windows users in awkward position A Sophos IT security consultant has issued a warning not to fall prey to malware that uses a PowerPoint presentation demonstrating sexual positions from the Kama Sutra as its lure. Read More NetApp to acquire Akorri Networks Storage company NetApp has entered into an agreement to acquire privately held Akorri Networks, which specializes in optimizing server, storage and application performance, the company said on Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful. Read Now. Sign of the digital times: Sony shutting plant that used to make 18M CDs a month Sony this week said it was shuttering one of its largest CD manufacturing plants - citing the impact of digital downloads and other economic issues. Read More Survey on PCI: How it's impacting network security A survey of 500 information technology professionals with responsibility to assure compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standard shows just over half find it "burdensome but necessary" in their organizations and about a third see it impacting their virtualized network environments in particular in the future. Read More The 20 Most Anticipated Video Games of 2011 Check out our picks for the 20 most enticing computer and console video games due to ship in 2011. Read More The 7 Most Overrated Games of 2010 Think of these as decent, and in some cases pretty fantastic games, but hobbled by unmissable lazy design and QA issues most reviews overlooked. Read More
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