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Happy 25th birthday, IETF
The Internet's leading standards body - the Internet Engineering Task Force - turns 25 on Jan. 16. Read More


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Virtualization Reduces Costs and Complexity
The paper explains virtualization in the context of mid-sized businesses and shows how they can reduce costs, improve services and simplify management. Click to Continue

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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

The 10 biggest hoaxes in Wikipedia's first 10 years
The online encyclopedia that anyone can edit has had its share of hoaxes of the years. Here are the top 10. Read More

The 36 Best iPhone Games
We've sifted through the thousands of games and have settled on these 36 titles to enthusiastically recommend. Read More


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Defragmentation in Virtualized Environments
Performance corrupting file fragmentation is severely compounded on virtual platforms and threatens to undo most of its efficiency benefits. Coordinating defrag resources between VMs was an insurmountable barrier until recent innovations eliminated conflicts. Learn More

"Stealing Wi-Fi" isn't about Wi-Fi
The New York Times has an Op-Ed "contribution" from Helen Rubenstein, who fondly reminisces about how, for years, she piggybacked on her neighbors unsecured Wi-Fi connection to tackle her first freelance writing assignments, file her taxes, and stream episodes of "Friday Night Lights." Read More

Apple counts down to 10 billionth App Store download
Apple has slapped a fast-moving countdown image on its homepage and main iTunes page in celebration of what will soon be the 10 billionth app downloaded. Read More


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Maryland man exacts sweet robocall revenge
Have you ever wanted to get some sort of revenge on those automated robocalls that in some cases continue to interrupt dinner or in this situation, sleep? The Washington Post has a story today about a Maryland man who'd had enough and exacted some revenge of his own. Read More

Most popular stories this week: Jan. 14
The most-viewed stories at Network World for the week ending Jan. 14. Check out the full list. Read More

New Architect level certifications focus on virtual and converged environments
Organizations of every size and description are rapidly adopting new data center technologies, including virtualization and cloud computing. Truly transforming a data center, however, requires more than setting up a few virtual machines. Read More



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Our fifth annual collection of the year's "geekiest anniversaries" kicks off with The Mentor's "Hacker's Manifesto" and includes such memorable characters as Captain Midnight and Ferris Bueller, institutions the likes of the IETF and Spy magazine, and inventions like the Super Soaker and disposable camera.

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