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	Hackers exploit Windows XP zero-day, Microsoft confirms Hackers are now exploiting the zero-day Windows vulnerability that a Google engineer took public last week, Microsoft confirmed today. Although Microsoft did not share details of the attack, other researchers filled in the blanks. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Cisco to Announce Data Center 3.0 Architecture Join Cisco in a special public announcement from Cisco Live conference and be among the first to lean about the next stages on the evolution of Cisco's Data Center 3.0 strategy. Hear information straight from the engineers who were involved in the latest developments, and find out what these innovations mean to you. Register Now! In this Issue A brief history of smartphones Big IT vendors turning to mergers to help take on cloud Who's next on the acquisition block? Bloggers chime in News podcast: Network World 360 Verizon to tie cloud storage with computing Apple's iPhone 4: A Pre-Order Guide Force Windows to Shut Down, Solve XP/7 Networking Woes If you want VC funding, show 'fire in the eyes' IBM buys Web analytics software company Career advice: Software or security? Cloud security: The basics WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Strategies for Unleashing Cloud Performance Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Click here! A brief history of smartphones It's been three years since Apple brought the smartphone to a mass consumer market, but smartphones have actually been around in one form or another since 1993. Let's take a look. Read More Big IT vendors turning to mergers to help take on cloud Users and analysts list various reasons why large IT vendors are back in the merger business after the recession caused a yearlong lull in acquisition plans. Read More Who's next on the acquisition block? Bloggers chime in Oracle buys Sun. HP buys 3Com. SAP buys Sybase. Just when it seemed like consolidation among the big data-center vendors had played itself out, we're off again at full tilt. Multiple trends are driving the latest acquisitions wave: The economy is recovering, customers are demanding systems that are easier to implement and vendors seem intent on collapsing the divide between servers, network and storage. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue News podcast: Network World 360 AT&T sent a explanatory letter to its iPad subscribers Sunday, even as new details emerged that last week's leak of customer information was not as difficult as the company maintains, and, contrary to the company's claims, could be used to gain additional data. Also, attendees of this week's Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston may find that businesses' use of social-networking and collaboration technologies is slowly starting to take off. (5:45)     Read More Verizon to tie cloud storage with computing Verizon Business is set to announce a cloud-based storage service on Tuesday, leveraging the formidable Verizon Communications global data network as a draw for large enterprises to subscribe. Read More Apple's iPhone 4: A Pre-Order Guide Tuesday is iPhone 4 pre-order day, the day when forward-thinking iPhone fans can reserve a device for pick-up at an Apple Store or home delivery on Thursday, June 24. At the time of this writing, Apple's online store was slow to load and at times unavailable -- presumably due to a high volume of iPhone 4 reservations. As an alternative you can also pre-order on AT&T's Website at att.com/iphone; however, there are some differences between ordering from AT&T and Apple. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Force Windows to Shut Down, Solve XP/7 Networking Woes My desktop occasionally fails to shut down properly. It seems to complete Windows' shutdown process, but then just freezes--without actually turning off. Read More If you want VC funding, show 'fire in the eyes' Juniper Networks founder and CTO Pradeep Sindhu details what he looks for in companies seeking backing from his venture capital fund. Read More IBM buys Web analytics software company IBM continues buying spree with purchase of Coremetrics, a marketing analytics provider. Read More Career advice: Software or security? A reader asks whether he should choose software development or IT security as a primary career path. Ron Nutter responds. Read More Cloud security: The basics Cloud computing is one of the most-discussed topics among IT professionals today. And not too long into any conversation about the most highly touted cloud models--software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS) -- the talk often turns to cloud security. Read More
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