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	Back to school bargains IT pros will love As summer begins to wane, the inevitability of returning to school looms. While this may be a depressing time for students and faculty, it is a joyous time to bargain-hunt for great electronics deals. 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 Nine real iPad alternatives Defcon badge is unlike anything you have ever seen 12 Top Spy Gadgets Dragon Naturally Speaking Goes to 11 [video] Our new video series: The ABCs of IT No unicorns inside Apple's Magic Trackpad WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More Nine real iPad alternatives These products have features missing in the iPad, and they're slated to ship this year. Read More Defcon badge is unlike anything you have ever seen It's sleek, stylish, programmable, and made out of metal. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix EMA Report: Customer Satisfaction with ADC Vendors Enterprise Management Associates report – "Customer Satisfaction with Application Delivery Controller Vendors" -- shows how Citrix NetScaler beats F5 and Cisco in customer satisfaction! Discover why Citrix is superior in 16 out of 21 categories and tops the competition in Presales, Tech Support, Product, Technology and Overall Business Value. Read now! 12 Top Spy Gadgets Spy gear for your inner secret agent. These cool (and possibly useful) gadgets would dazzle James Bond! Read More Dragon Naturally Speaking Goes to 11 [video] I had the chance earlier in the week to visit the Burlington, Mass., headquarters of Nuance Communications, which makes the Dragon Naturally Speaking software. The company this week announced version 11 of its software ($100, available very soon), with performance boosts, accuracy improvements and some user interface changes, among other new features. Read More WEBCAST: Infoblox Learn 4 Concepts to Network Automation Join this webinar to learn where to start introducing network automation into your organization so you can: • Address Hidden IT Costs • Support Key Initiatives • Achieve Operational Optimization • Apply IT Resources More Strategically View Now! Our new video series: The ABCs of IT Today we've launched our new video series, "The ABCs of IT." Starring I.T. Jinglehopper (you can call him Neal for short) and his sidekick/intern Jackson, the two will explain the alphabet of IT terms and hopefully provide some entertainment along the way. Read More No unicorns inside Apple's Magic Trackpad The fine folks over at iFixit have done another Apple teardown, this time of the new Magic Trackpad, which is part of the new iMacs Apple introduced earlier this week. Sadly, the iFixit team "didn't find any magical unicorns inside," but they were impressed on how the Apple engineers were able to pack lots of stuff inside a thin profile. Read More
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