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	Russian spy ring needed some serious IT help Russian spies allegedly used steganography, open wireless networks and transfer of memory sticks to swap data, but faced problems such as leaving a password lying around on a piece of paper and trouble getting laptops fixed in less than six months. 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 How Cisco Cius stacks up against iPad Apple sells 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices in just 3 days Microsoft testing guide Google steals security page from Mozilla's Firefox Report points to fraud in Research 2000 polling data Cisco's UCS is 1 year old Only Microsoft and Red Hat have all the pieces to build clouds, Red Hat says NASA makes it official: It wants a big new rocket Brocade, HP, Cisco roll out SAN switches, servers, HBAs and deduplication software Algae-based biofuel development gets $24M boost from US WEBCAST: Meraki Take Your WiFi to the Cloud This Webcast will detail the simplicity and savings of cloud-managed Wi-Fi. Learn how Meraki's wireless solution delivers savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions and scales for networks of all sizes. View now! How Cisco Cius stacks up against iPad Cisco's new Cius tablet is much more enterprise oriented than Apple's iPad. Here's how the two stack up. Read More Apple sells 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices in just 3 days Despite some highly publicized reception problems, customers just can't seem to get enough of Apple's new iPhone 4. Earlier this week, Apple issued a press release that it had sold 1.7 million units in just 3 days, making it the most successful product launch in Apple history. Read More Microsoft testing guide We packaged up our recent tests on some of Microsoft's leading products. Download a copy today. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Google steals security page from Mozilla's Firefox Google plans to take a page from Mozilla's playbook and block outdated plug-ins from launching, part of new efforts to keep Chrome users safer. Read More Report points to fraud in Research 2000 polling data This is a must-read story for political junkies and anyone who just flat-out doesn't trust opinion polls. ... In fact, it's an even more important read for those who do trust opinion polls. Read More Cisco's UCS is 1 year old Cisco's Unified Computing System platform, which consolidates data center operations by integrating blade servers with storage access, virtualization and switching, celebrated its first birthday this week at the Cisco Live! conference in Las Vegas. It seems to be growing up fast: There are 900 paying customers for the platform. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Corporation No Harmony in Harmonics Distortion in your data center's electrical system can significantly impact power utilization and cause communication errors, overheating and hardware damage. Learn how installing a single harmonic-mitigating transformer is the most cost-effective means to prevent harmful harmonics from affecting electric distribution equipment. Learn More Only Microsoft and Red Hat have all the pieces to build clouds, Red Hat says Red Hat claims only itself and Microsoft have every piece of software required to build an entire cloud, and allow workloads to move from one cloud to another. Read More NASA makes it official: It wants a big new rocket NASA today issued the official announcement that it wants a new heavy-lift rocket to help it get deep into outer space. Read More Brocade, HP, Cisco roll out SAN switches, servers, HBAs and deduplication software Brocade on Wednesday introduced a portfolio of new 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters and switches and a new server virtualization bundle for HP's BladeSystem platform. The company introduced an HP-branded 8Gb Fibre Channel HBA mezzanine adapter – the Brocade 804 -- that supports Server Application Optimization (SAO) and integrates with the HP StorageWorks Data Center Fabric Manager. Read More Algae-based biofuel development gets $24M boost from US The Department of Energy said it would invest $24 million in three research groups to tackle the challenges of bringing algae-based biofuels to market. Read More
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