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	Killer open source admin tools Sysadmins are a unique breed. Like many of our IT brethren, we must be jacks of all trades. Mail relays, file sharing, websites.... It's a lot to shoulder, but don't fret. Open source is here to help. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More. In this Issue Cisco targeted by another patent troll Mellanox looks to head off Cisco, Juniper with open source Ethernet plan Google publishes Zopfli as open-source compression algorithm to speed up Web downloads 'Sandboxing' leader FireEye seen moving toward an IPO INSIDER How to blunt spear phishing attacks FreedomPop: Great idea that needs a better network Tablet Wars: Microsoft Surface RT v. Apple iPad How Blackstone is finding BYOD success with BYOA(pple) MIT panel warns of challenges of hyper-networked world Dell puts RNA Networks assets to use in new product Oracle adds virtualization, faster performance to Database Appliance for SMBs WHITE PAPER: Egnyte Comparing Consumer and Enterprise Online File Sharing Learn the difference between consumer and enterprise file sharing. Understand the risks of rogue online file sharing (Dropbox) and how it impacts business security and regulations. Learn More Now! Cisco targeted by another patent troll Another patent enforcement company is coming after Cisco. VirnetX Holding Corp. is seeking $258 million from Cisco for allegedly infringing VPN patents, according to this Bloomberg report. Read More Mellanox looks to head off Cisco, Juniper with open source Ethernet plan In an effort to better compete with data center switching rivals Cisco, Arista and Juniper, Mellanox is opening up. Read More Google publishes Zopfli as open-source compression algorithm to speed up Web downloads Google is open-sourcing a new general purpose data compression library called Zopfli that can be used to speed up Web downloads. Read More WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers Gartner's 2012 Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers looks at vendors responding to the challenge of "any channel" customer engagement. Follow the leaders and find out why more than 100,000 customers worldwide rely on Salesforce CRM applications to transform their businesses. Read More! 'Sandboxing' leader FireEye seen moving toward an IPO Though still privately held, FireEye is getting plenty of attention right now because its anti-malware sandboxing technology is something a number of other vendors want to emulate -- and FireEye's growing commercial success is inching it toward possibly going public later this year. Read More INSIDER How to blunt spear phishing attacks According to Allen Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, 95% of all attacks on enterprise networks are the result of successful spear phishing. In other words, somebody received an email and either clicked on a link or opened a file that they weren't supposed to. Read More FreedomPop: Great idea that needs a better network The FreedomPop Photon is a hockey puck-size device similar to Mi-Fi devices by Verizon (Jetpack) and AT&T Wireless (Liberate), providing mobile workers with 4G data access for mobile devices through a Wi-Fi connection. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Resolve Performance Issues Within Your Citrix Environment Citrix offers significant benefits to IT organizations but alters the performance troubleshooting process due to its unique architecture. Breakthrough new technology flips the Citrix performance management paradigm on its head by providing unprecedented end-to-end visibility of user transactions traversing a Citrix server. Read Now Tablet Wars: Microsoft Surface RT v. Apple iPad The Microsoft Surface running Windows RT is just about everything you'd want in a tablet, but how does it stack up against the market leader, the Apple iPad? Read More How Blackstone is finding BYOD success with BYOA(pple) Bill Murphy, CTO and managing director at Blackstone, a global investment and advisory firm, knew he wanted to find a way to allow employees to use their own devices for work. The demand was there, and he was increasingly hearing about how adding in BYOD would help productivity. Read More MIT panel warns of challenges of hyper-networked world A panel discussion held at MIT this week hailed major advances in networking technology, but warned that the challenges facing the world's information infrastructure are severe. Read More Dell puts RNA Networks assets to use in new product Dell has released a new software product designed to make solid-state-drive caching on servers more efficient, resulting in improved performance of applications such as databases. Read More Oracle adds virtualization, faster performance to Database Appliance for SMBs Oracle has rolled out version X3-2 of its Database Appliance for small and medium-sized businesses that it says delivers up to twice the speed and more than four times as much storage as the first edition, which was launched in 2011. Read More
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