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	Who are tech's highest paid CEOs? Oracle's Larry Ellison has been the highest paid tech chief on our list each year since Network World started tracking CEO compensation, but in 2011 his $77.6 million pay package was bested by another tech CEO's enormous windfall. Who was it? Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Measuring Private Cloud Payback With 2,000 employees spread across five continents, balancing the tradeoff between complexity and performance is no easy task. See how a natural resources firm leveraged WAN optimization to deploy their private cloud and achieve bandwidth utilization reductions of 70%-90% without having to make changes to routers or QoS configurations. Read now! In this Issue HP, F5 partner to speed delivery of cloud apps Will BYOD revive the network-access control idea? Gartner thinks it will Extreme Networks adds heavy dose of copper to 10G switches Cisco nemesis Huawei to demo 96-port 100G Ethernet switch Hacktivists have the enterprises' attention. Now what? iPhones, Android devices hot targets among 50,000 network attacks on California university The exception is the norm in today's IT environments Next-gen firewalls require external visibility tools IBM: The rapidly changing role of top security executives WHITE PAPER: HP Your Network is Heading for Traffic Chaos The increased use of virtual machine (VM) mobility and new application deployments is significantly increasing traffic levels between servers in the data center. This Gartner report provides recommendations for overcoming these challenges prevalent in most traditional data center networks. Learn more. HP, F5 partner to speed delivery of cloud apps HP this week unveiled several initiatives at Interop 2012 in Las Vegas to enhance the provisioning and performance of virtual applications over a network, including an alliance with application delivery controller leader F5. Read More Will BYOD revive the network-access control idea? Gartner thinks it will Is the BYOD craze going to bring a revival of NAC, the policy-based network-access control that was hyped a decade ago but didn't end up widely adopted for endpoint security? Read More Extreme Networks adds heavy dose of copper to 10G switches Extreme Networks Monday unveiled 10G Ethernet copper modules for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch and new fixed copper versions of its Summit X670 top-of-rack switch. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Your IT Career Roadmap This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue Cisco nemesis Huawei to demo 96-port 100G Ethernet switch Huawei, Cisco's toughest competitor in networking, will debut its entry into enterprise data center switching at this week's Interop 2012 conference in Las Vegas. Read More Hacktivists have the enterprises' attention. Now what? Experts say enterprises need to be more prepared for anything and everything, including eventual compromises. Read More iPhones, Android devices hot targets among 50,000 network attacks on California university Almost 50,000 separate network attacks each week take aim at the California State University, San Bernardino, and the latest trend is seeing attackers go after students' Google Android and Apple iPhone mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ SANS Review of NetIQ Sentinel 7 A SIEM solution fully installed and capturing logs in under 15 minutes! Read how SANS analyst Jerry Schenk did it, and why he feels NetIQ Sentinel 7 is a great solution for the most pressing security problems facing enterprises today. Learn More! The exception is the norm in today's IT environments I've been doing a series of interviews with IT executives over the past few months about their technology plans for the back half of 2012. I've had a number of discussions on a variety of topic areas but there has been a big theme that I've noticed. It seems one of the biggest challenges with IT is dealing with so many issues that were once exceptions to IT, or even not allowed, that have become part of the new norm for IT. Read More Next-gen firewalls require external visibility tools Knowing what's happening on your network is a pre-requisite to controlling the traffic. We call that visibility because it combines all of the information the firewall knows, including session and application information, traffic volumes, and rate information, into a way to "see" into your network -- to give you visibility. Read More IBM: The rapidly changing role of top security executives Security issues are exerting a ton of pressure and monetary concerns on the executives in charge of keeping corporate networks and assets safe. Read More
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