9 real iPad alternatives

	New Linux kernel borrows Google packet speeding tech | 7 IT career rules worth breaking
	Network World Daily News PM				Forward this to a Friend >>>
	9 real iPad alternatives These products have features missing in the iPad - and they're slated to ship this year. Read More VIDEO: Intel The Anxiety Behind Security and Compliance What keeps IT executives up at night? Two words: security and compliance, according to a recent quick poll. Remote access is a solid productivity provider, but it can be a bear to manage. Learn where data loss, patch management and help desk anxieties placed among IT concerns. Click Here In this Issue New Linux kernel borrows Google packet speeding tech 7 IT career rules worth breaking News podcast: Network World 360 Harris Corp. unveils push-to-talk over IP technology Defcon: Hacking Tire Pressure Monitors Remotely Will Future Virtual Intelligence & Precrime Predictions Kill Privacy? A cost-effective approach for petabyte storage systems Open source book publishing gets a boost 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! New Linux kernel borrows Google packet speeding tech Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput considerably. Read More 7 IT career rules worth breaking Sometimes sticking to the status quo can actually hinder your success. Dave Willmer offers some suggestions to help you keep your career moving forward. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed An In-Depth Look at ROI In this whitepaper, Riverbed discusses its compelling and powerful return on investment in hard dollars, and a way to leap past the obstacles preventing you from reaching your IT objectives. Read now! News podcast: Network World 360 The built-in mechanism that lets many Internet providers tap communications for law enforcement agencies is susceptible to abuse by insiders who work for the ISPs. Citrix's VDI technology has surged ahead of rival VMware's, according to the Burton Group, which says Citrix's XenDesktop software is the first "enterprise-ready" server-hosted virtual desktop product. (5:24) Read More Harris Corp. unveils push-to-talk over IP technology Harris Corp. today announced a radio technology based on voice over IP (VoIP) that can be used globally for instant communications by small or large groups in business, public safety and other organizations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Top 2 Virtualization Challenges Virtualized data centers must become more highly available to ensure timely access to data. This paper examines the trends toward server consolidation and how WAN optimization technology can address application performance and information availability issues. Read now! Defcon: Hacking Tire Pressure Monitors Remotely I attended an interesting talk at Defcon today that revealed a potential security vulnerability that I never would have thought of in a million years. Yep, hacking the tire pressure monitoring system in your car. Read More Will Future Virtual Intelligence & Precrime Predictions Kill Privacy? If crime could be stopped before it started, by use of virtual intelligence "future" searches, what might be the cost to privacy and online anonymity? Read More A cost-effective approach for petabyte storage systems The onslaught of unstructured digital content -- video, audio and images -- is taxing storage systems and creating the need to be able to store multi-petabytes, but current industry practices using RAID and replication to accomplish data protection are expensive at this scale. Read More Open source book publishing gets a boost The idea of using open-source functionality in the book publishing field has, slowly but surely, gained more momentum lately. I've written before about how open-sourced textbooks could considerably ease college costs and of some attempts to jump-start efforts in this regard. Read More
	Join us on LinkedIn Discuss the networking issues of the day with your colleagues, via Network World's LinkedIn group. Join today! - Jeff Caruso, Executive Online Editor Books for you from Microsoft Subnet and Cisco Subnet Throw your name in the hat for a complete CompTIA Security+ study guide and the SharePoint bible, Essential SharePoint 2010. Deadline July 31. Enter today! SLIDESHOWS Mobile deathmatch: Apple iOS 4 vs. Android 2.2 Apple's iOS has been wowing users for four years in the iPhone and now the iPad. Available in smartphones and now tablets from various vendors going on two years, Google's Android has proven itself to be a strong contender that has the only real chance to surpass iOS. 15 summer vacation ideas for geeks From Star Trek and Space Camp to baseball minutiae, vintage video games, anime, pirates, Harry Potter and They Might Be Giants, there's a vacation option for any type of geek this summer. MOST-READ STORIES Hacker snoops on GSM cell phones in demo WPA2 vulnerability found FBI rings organizers over Defcon contest Anatomy of a Cisco data center convert How to steal corporate secrets in 20 minutes: Ask 'Unhackable' Android phone can be hacked Black Hat gets its video feed hacked Happy SysAdmin Day (despite the pay) ATM hack gives cash on demand 12 top spy gadgets
	Do You Tweet? Follow everything from NetworkWorld.com on Twitter @NetworkWorld. You are currently subscribed to networkworld_daily_news_alert as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: bglynn@cxo.com To contact Network World, please send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. Copyright (C) 2010 Network World, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. If you want to contact someone directly, send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. **