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	Microsoft up for its share of Pwnies at Black Hat conference If you're a technology company trying to maintain a reputation for security, you don't necessarily want to receive a Pwnie Award at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. While some of the awards legitimately honor enterprising security experts who uncovered vulnerabilities, or important research, others are ignominious, such as the award for "Lamest Vendor Response" and "Most Epic Fail." 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 In this Issue Black Hat too commercial for you? Mobile deathmatch: Apple iOS 4 vs. Android 2.2, side by side MIT Design Could Speed Up the Internet What's the impact of carriers' new 'capped' wireless data plans on corporate networks? Products of the Week Group to work on wireless laptop-charging specification New Google Apps service targets gov't security needs Entrepreneurs see profit in iPhone 4 antenna problems Sprint expands NextMail voice messaging to all its devices WHITE PAPER: NetApp Best Practices for Design, Architecture and Management This document provides NetApp best practices for architecting, sizing, and deploying a VMware® VDI environment on NetApp® storage. Learn more. Black Hat too commercial for you? Two premiere security conferences -- Black Hat and DefCon -- run back-to-back in Las Vegas this week, each with their own distinct flavor. But even these events don't meet the needs of all computer security pros, setting the stage for a widening set of satellite events. Read More Mobile deathmatch: Apple iOS 4 vs. Android 2.2, side by side See how well iOS and Android do in InfoWorld's mobile OS features face-off. Read More MIT Design Could Speed Up the Internet MIT researchers have developed a way to speed up Internet routers by 100 times or more, as a way to cope with increasingly bandwidth-hungry applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Forrester: IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! What's the impact of carriers' new 'capped' wireless data plans on corporate networks? In June, AT&T announced tiered wireless data plans shortly before the launch of the iPhone 4. Existing subscribers could continue with unlimited plans, but new customers have to choose between DataPlus, $15 a month for 200MB of data traffic or DataPro, $25 a month for 2GB. How will this change affect corporate customers? Read More Products of the Week Our round-up of intriguing new products from McAfee, EMC, Tripwire, among others. Read More Group to work on wireless laptop-charging specification The Wireless Power Consortium said Monday that it will start working on a new specification for wirelessly charging laptops. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Unleashing Stranded Power and Cooling from Data Centers This white paper examines the underlying roots of today's data center power and cooling crisis and outlines five steps businesses can take to support intensifying IT requirements economically by removing inefficiencies from their power and cooling infrastructure. Read More New Google Apps service targets gov't security needs Google on Monday unveiled a new version of Google Apps designed to meet the rigorous security needs of U.S. government agencies. Read More Entrepreneurs see profit in iPhone 4 antenna problems Apple's iPhone 4 antenna woes has provided creative entrepreneurs an opportunity to make some money marketing related wares. Read More Sprint expands NextMail voice messaging to all its devices Sprint Nextel today said that its NextMail voice messaging service is now available on all of the devices the carrier sells. Read More
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