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Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk
Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealths online driving exam scheduling system. Read More


ARTICLE: Symantec

Introducing Symantec Backup Exec 2010
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E-GUIDE: HP ProCurve

Standards to Soothe Networking Headaches
Is you network comprised of multiple switching tiers running proprietary protocols capable of handling next-generation applications? This Network World eBook looks at open, virtual switching, unified fabrics and bandwidth of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and more. Get expert advice on how to turn your network into a more simplified, open infrastructure. Read Now.

Top free troubleshooting tools for Windows
These seven handy tools help you diagnose and cure a wide range of Windows ills, and they're all free for the downloading. Read More

IE zero-day exploit code goes public
An Israeli researcher has published exploit code for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that Microsoft had just disclosed on Tuesday. Read More

Salesforce.com outage has customers tweeting
Salesforce.com customers were abuzz on Twitter Thursday morning as the result of what they described as a North American outage. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP

WAN Design – Don't Buy More than You Need
This Gartner research note examines the methodology organizations should employ when designing a WAN. It offers advice on how to ensure that important applications are networked with sufficient performance and that there is not an "overspend" on less important applications and provides guidance on meeting unique network needs. Read Now.

First LTE phone from Verizon expected mid-2010
Verizon Wireless plans to launch its first LTE-based wireless phone in mid-2011, three to six months after the carrier rolls out its new LTE network, according to a report. Read More

News podcast: Network World 360
ComScore said yesterday that smartphone use is up 18% over the previous quarter, with 42 million users. And Google's Android mobile operating system is standing out as the dominant winner for the quarter. Also, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man, according to the annual Forbes magazine list released Tuesday, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either. (5:30) Read More

Cisco's CRS-3 and Wireless: Not for a While
I don't follow the core router market, but it's pretty clear that 322 Tb/s is a whole lot of capacity. And I'm of the belief that too much is a lot better than not enough, and that traffic loads across the board only increase over time. It would seem, then, that a product like Cisco's brand-new CRS-3 is already much too small, remarkable technological achievement though it obviously is. Read More


WHITE PAPER: ShoreTel

Getting the Right Foundation: Unified Communications
IP telephony is moving into its second decade, most users are waiting for convergence and voice-enabled applications. Increased network efficiencies have been the benefit of IP telephony as enterprises struggle with infrastructure and organizational issues. The focus is now on converged applications, the spotlight on Unified Communications (UC). Learn more now.

Virgin Media to trial fiber broadband over telegraph poles
Virgin Media will use telegraph poles to extend the reach of FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) in a test in the U.K. village of Woolhampton, it said on Thursday. Read More

Google's Big New Cloud Play: Should Microsoft Be Afraid?
Late last week, Google made another aggressive move to stay ahead of Microsoft in the online productivity tools space by acquiring DocVerse, a startup founded by two former Microsoft employees, known for tools that let users collaborate on Microsoft Office files on the Web. Read More

Is the International Space Station just a costly flying lab or irreplaceable resource?
While NASA budget-keepers focus on setting future priorities for the space agency, many in the world space  community is trying to turn attention to the benefits a mostly complete. Read More



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