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	Can you guess the vendor who did the funny math? Douglas Gourlay: "In the world of misrepresenting the performance capabilities of a product the networking industry has seen some real gems. Maybe I should recap some of my favorites, a few of which I may have even contributed to before becoming a reformed statistician... But even as much as I would just love to make liberal sport out of the ne'er-do-wells I think this would be much more fun as a guessing game. In the 'Comments Section' below please post your guesses." Read More WHITE PAPER: Insight Examine Open Storage v. Proprietary Disk Systems Download this whitepaper today and examine how Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a complete, open and integrated solution that: * Reduces time to deployment. * Lowers risk. * Simplifies storage deployment and management. Read now! In this Issue Google CEO: Change Your Name to Escape Our Watchful Eye QoS: Ethernet vs. WiFi Back to school tech bargains: Week 3 IBM unleashes 256-core Unix server, its biggest yet News podcast: Network World 360 Research: Unusual, Unpopular Passwords Are Simple and Most Secure Can you choose the right Pen Test? Is offering too many products or features a bad thing? WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Choosing the Right Active Directory Bridge Solution for You A solid Active Directory (AD) bridge in your diverse IT environment allows Unix, Linux and Mac systems to coexist with a Windows infrastructure. Further, it consolidates countless identities and passwords for improved security and productivity (and reduced complexity and cost). Read More Google CEO: Change Your Name to Escape Our Watchful Eye Google is often accused of behaving like Big Brother, and Google's CEO Eric Schmidt isn't doing much to dispel those perceptions. In fact, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Schmidt dropped an interesting -- and frightening -- tidbit: perhaps people should change their names upon reaching adulthood to eradicate the potentially reputation-damaging search records Google keeps. Read More QoS: Ethernet vs. WiFi Certain networking services work differently on the wired and wireless sides of enterprise networks. One is QoS. Read More WEBCAST: Red Hat Modernize Your Infrastructure In this session, HP and Red Hat speakers will explain how to prepare for and execute an effective migration from SPARC/Solaris OS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. Register Now! Back to school tech bargains: Week 3 Don't let the marketing fool you, back to school sales aren't just for students anymore. Read More IBM unleashes 256-core Unix server, its biggest yet IBM has strengthened its hand in the Unix business with new systems based on its Power7 processors, including a server for large enterprises that scales to 256 cores. Read More DOWNLOAD: BlackBerry Free Download from RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Download Today! News podcast: Network World 360 Sometime this month, the 5 billionth device will plug into the Internet. And in 10 years, that number will grow by more than a factor of four, according to IMS Research, which tracks the installed base of equipment that can access the Internet. Also, Verizon has completed a field trial on its fiber-optic FiOS network, in which it delivered bandwidth approaching 1 gigabit per second to business customer in Taunton, Massachusetts. (4:57) Read More Research: Unusual, Unpopular Passwords Are Simple and Most Secure Microsoft researchers studied password security and concluded that popularity is everything. Enterprises might be interested to discover that simple but weird is what works as the best way to protect passwords from statistical-guessing attacks. In fact, a study found that popular passwords are easy to guess and pose a bigger risk to online security than weak ones. Read More Can you choose the right Pen Test? Pen tests may seem like a security test panacea. However they have been known to go terribly wrong and become vastly expensive. Here's what you need to know to make sure you get the results you want at the price you expect. Read More Is offering too many products or features a bad thing? My friend and I got into very interesting conversation the other day about how companies tend to focus a large amount of energy creating products or versions of their products for particular market segments. Read More
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