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	How IT pros cheat on certification exams Incidents of cheating on IT certifications are on the rise, a trend that experts say is an outward sign of the desperation felt by out-of-work and under-employed IT professionals. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Xerox Are You Ready for Real Business? Companies around the globe know it's better to let Xerox handle their back-office business-process needs so they can focus on what matters most: their real business. Learn more about their new services including finance and accounting outsourcing, human resource services, customer care and IT outsourcing. Get ready for real business> In this Issue Stolen HBGary e-mails indicate it was planning a "new breed of rootkit" Microsoft builds speedy flash bridge between RAM and hard disk RSA: Act now on cyberwar, security experts caution Obama sets $126M for next-gen supercomputing McAfee, Intel subsidiary Wind River join forces to head off future Stuxnet-like attacks Start-ups offer cool tools to ease IT's pain How About This for an Interesting Merger - Juniper and Riverbed iPad Productivity Tools: 3 Must-Haves Jennings explains his Jeopardy loss to Watson 7 other game shows that Watson should be on Cloud providers will be better at security than you can ever be RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix XenServer Download Free XenServer XenServer is the only enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform you don't have to pay for. With live migration, centralized multi-server management, and shared storage support, you can't afford not to try it! Click to continue Stolen HBGary e-mails indicate it was planning a "new breed of rootkit" E-mails stolen by hactivist group Anonymous indicate that the security company it targeted was proposing to make a "new breed of rootkit" and that it passed along the plan to a technology firm that caters to the federal government. Read More Microsoft builds speedy flash bridge between RAM and hard disk Microsoft research project makes flash storage work more efficiently in conjunction with RAM and hard disk for speedier reads and writes. Read More RSA: Act now on cyberwar, security experts caution The time has arrived for the U.S. to develop a strategic plan for dealing with threats against critical infrastructure and those targeting U.S. economic interests, security experts said at the RSA conference. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hitachi CPC Jan-Feb2011 Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Pinpoint root cause of network issues up to 90% faster. Automated Root Cause Analysis speeds remediation. FREE video and 30-day trial. www.hitachimonitoringcenter.com Download free 30-day trial Obama sets $126M for next-gen supercomputing President Barack Obama has included funding in his 2012 budget proposal for development of the next generation of supercomputers, an exascale system. Read More McAfee, Intel subsidiary Wind River join forces to head off future Stuxnet-like attacks McAfee, which will soon be an Intel subsidiary, and Wind River, which already is one, Wednesday announced they are hardening the security of industrial commercial operating systems supplied by Wind River to makers of products such as automated teller machines, medical devices, TV set-top boxes and cameras. Read More Start-ups offer cool tools to ease IT's pain If you want to know what IT tools and technologies you'll be using in a few years, it pays to keep an eye on enterprise technology start-ups. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint Why 4G for the Enterprise? As the US economy slowly recovers in 2010, enterprise cautiousness toward purchases of enterprise communications technology continues. Enterprises will only adopt communications technology that offers the best value in terms of scalability, ROI and worker productivity. Learn more How About This for an Interesting Merger - Juniper and Riverbed JunOS Running on Steelheads? At the beginning of the year, the editors at Network World send us bloggers a question of mergers we expect in the next year. It's a guessing game (for fun) and an idea for a blog. Read More iPad Productivity Tools: 3 Must-Haves More and more traveling executives are leaving their laptops behind in favor of the iPad. They're writing documents, crunching numbers, and sharing files. Can you really swap your laptop with an iPad? Here is my three-part game plan for success. Read More Jennings explains his Jeopardy loss to Watson In the final analysis, Watson's dismantling of human Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter was so one-sided as to render any rematch unlikely: After all, Watson will only get better; Jennings and Rutter, not so much. Read More 7 other game shows that Watson should be on Sure, it's real easy for all of the braniacs to get excited about IBM's Watson supercomputer destroying all humans in a game of Jeopardy – that's the ultimate in knowledge, quick wits and thinking. But with the excitement around this event, I think IBM's engineers should go the extra step and start putting Watson on other game shows. Read More Cloud providers will be better at security than you can ever be Cloud service providers, the theory goes, will be able to provide better security than enterprises can muster because their scale will enable them to hire the best experts and employ the latest technology. But others say if you're really concerned you'll keep it in house, that cloud represents a fundamental risk. Read More
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