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	Sneak Peek at Hot High-Tech Gadgets for the Fall You don't have to wait for November to get a jump on the tech shopping season. Here are the hottest gadgets coming out this fall. Read More VIDEO: Intel The Planned Refresh—Simplifying IT Management We asked IT executives what's the best thing about their PC fleet? What they told us may surprise you. The winner: refreshing desktops and notebooks, by a wide margin, 36 to 23%. Learn how a regular refresh and buying fully capable mobile platforms protect and enable your fleet and workforce. Click Here In this Issue Cisco responds to Black Hat's Million Router Hacker UNH starts 40/100G Ethernet interoperability testing Juniper buys smartphone securer for $70 million A waste of space: Bulk of drive capacity still underutilized Dell has not abandoned Ubuntu CA Technologies secures Google Docs, eyes more of the cloud Adobe joins Microsoft's patch-reporting program Amazon cloud perfect for building start-ups, says John Seely Brown News podcast: Network World 360 Google patches Chrome, sidesteps Windows kernel bug Are you as tired of lazy vendors as I am? What's Missing From StarCraft II's Launch? Pirate Copies Nissan car brakes automatically to avoid collisions WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Address Real-Time Application Performance IDC interviewed customers using Riverbed Cascade solution. Their analysis includes hard dollar ROI and benefits of the following features: • Application-level view of networks and servers • Visibility into end-to-end application delivery dependencies • Network behavioral analysis • Metrics to track performance SLAs Read now! Cisco responds to Black Hat's Million Router Hacker Cisco has posted a blog entry in response to the talk being delivered this week at Black Hat on hacking millions of consumer routers. We blogged on this talk two weeks ago.  Read More UNH starts 40/100G Ethernet interoperability testing The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) this week launched a consortium for companies preparing 40/100G Ethernet products compliant with the IEEE 802.3ba standard. Read More Juniper buys smartphone securer for $70 million Juniper Networks this week announced it is acquiring privately held SMobile Systems, a developer of security software for smartphones and tablets, for $70 million in cash. Read More A waste of space: Bulk of drive capacity still underutilized Near the turn of the century, data centers were only beginning to implement Fibre Channel storage-area networks (SAN), with most relying on direct-attached storage (DAS). Data utilization rates were abysmal, with data centers on average using just 25% to 30% of their hard disk drive capacity. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Virtualization and Data Center Management Virtualization is a tremendous opportunity for IT, yet deployment involves major process and management complexities. This white paper outlines best-practice methodologies that help you tackle these challenges. We also provide key questions to ask when evaluating a consolidated management solution. Learn More Dell has not abandoned Ubuntu Know this: Ubuntu is still for sale on Dell's website. In fact, a new desktop is available via  Dell's Ubuntu sales site, loaded with Ubuntu 10.04. Read More CA Technologies secures Google Docs, eyes more of the cloud CA Technologies Wednesday outlined plans to expand its cloud-computing security strategy, including immediate support for Google Docs by its CA Identity Manager product. Read More Adobe joins Microsoft's patch-reporting program Adobe and Microsoft are now working together to give security companies a direct line into their bug-fixing efforts. Read More Amazon cloud perfect for building start-ups, says John Seely Brown Start-ups are wasting venture funding on IT infrastructure that will soon be obsolete, Burton Group Catalyst speaker says. Read More VIDEO: Hitachi Meet Ray – An IT Guy About to Have a Good Day You've likely heard the term virtualization and you may even know what it's all about. Ray's story helps you better understand the big picture of virtualization benefits in the data center to help you get moving on virtualization in your computing environment. Watch Now. News podcast: Network World 360 Slovenian police will hold a press conference on Friday to discuss the arrest of three men in connection the massive Mariposa botnet that was disabled late last year. Also, Google this week patched five vulnerabilities in Chrome by issuing a new "stable" build of the browser. (2:38) Read More Google patches Chrome, sidesteps Windows kernel bug Google this week issued patches for five vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser, including three rated 'high.' Read More Are you as tired of lazy vendors as I am? Dealing with vendors can be maddening to say the least.  One of the reasons is because whenever you find a problem with their DB code they're very reluctant to change it.  And to a degree I understand that because they've got regression testing to do to make sure it doesn't break anything else, but very seldom do vendors bother updating their DB code at all. Read More What's Missing From StarCraft II's Launch? Pirate Copies StarCraft II has been circulating in beta since February 2010. A preload version's been downloadable for the past week. Boxed copies of the game went on sale last night at midnight. The game code's been hypothetically available, more or less in full, to software pirates for some time now. Read More Nissan car brakes automatically to avoid collisions A new safety system developed by Nissan ties together a car-mounted radar and computer to reduce the risk of collisions. Read More
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