Five open source technologies for 2012

	2012 Predictions: Consolidation In The NoSQL Space | Mozilla re-releases Firefox 9, backs out fix causing crashes
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	Five open source technologies for 2012 Next year, if all goes according to plan, Red Hat will become the first open source software company to generate more than US$1 billion a year in revenue. It will be a watershed moment for the open source community, who have long seen their approach of community-based development as a viable, even superior, alternative to traditional notions of how software should be written. Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Make Virtual Desktops a Valuable Reality with AMD This paper will explore how the fast-emerging trend of "desktop virtualization" is giving IT managers a potent solution for tackling the problems associated with PC sprawl. Read More! In this Issue 2012 Predictions: Consolidation In The NoSQL Space Mozilla re-releases Firefox 9, backs out fix causing crashes Kicking Back with Clementine 1.0 Using OpenLDAP For Remote Authentication LinkedIn open sources search engine WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL The Next Generation is the Smart Generation Innovations such as mobility, Web 2.0, social media and cloud computing have dramatically changed the IT landscape and introduced new security threats into the corporate network. This eBook investigates why traditional firewalls are no longer enough, and how application intelligence and control enable network security in the wake of these changes. Read more. 2012 Predictions: Consolidation In The NoSQL Space Big Data has really gone BIG this year. Hadoop and NoSQL are just about household names in the tech world. No less than Oracle, the 8000 pound Gorilla in the DB world has given NoSQL its stamp of approval by coming out with a NoSQL of their own. This coming year promises to be more of the same. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel The Best Way to Build a Cloud Learn how HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP 3PAR Utility Storage provide a solid, flexible foundation for your cloud environment. Read Now! Mozilla re-releases Firefox 9, backs out fix causing crashes A day after it shipped Firefox 9, Mozilla quickly released an update after backing out a bug fix that was causing some Mac, Linux and Windows browsers to crash. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Protecting Your Online Channels and Web Applications This whitepaper gives a broad overview of the ways in which Akamai can help organizations bolster the security of their Web-based assets, with capabilities ranging across the application, network, and DNS layers, as well as solutions focused on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation and business continuity. Learn more Kicking Back with Clementine 1.0 As long as we're just using Apple products and services, we're golden. The trouble starts when we want to enjoy our music on — or update our devices from — our Linux laptops. Read More Using OpenLDAP For Remote Authentication LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) provides a standard way of accessing directories that can contain hierarchical information for anything from address books to authentication data. Here's how you can get started with OpenLDAP, the open source implementation of LDAP, and create your own authorization server. Read More LinkedIn open sources search engine Joining its fellow social-networking companies in the public release of internal code, LinkedIn has opened sourced software obtained in October with its acquisition of the IndexTank search-engine software provider. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 10 essential data center appliances With all of the noise in data center networking focused on switches, fabrics and lossless Ethernet standards, appliances like WAN optimizers and application accelerators are often overlooked. But they are important components of the data center/cloud infrastructure, especially as organizations virtualize desktop applications for remote sites. Here's a listing of 10 of the top players, and their products, in data center appliances. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Cisco dumps the UMI personal telepresence very quietly 5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 Up-and-coming tech jobs -- and how to land one Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 Users desert Windows XP in near-record numbers 10 programming languages that could shake up IT Two new tools exploit router security setup problem Working out RIM's BlackBerry Bold 9930 over Christmas break Microsoft releases first unscheduled patch of 2011
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