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	Seven secret weapons for network management on a budget Cisco Subnet blogger Scott Hogg names his favorite free open source tools to keep your network humming. Read More ARTICLE: Diskeeper Corporation Top System Speed with Diskeeper 2010 Only Diskeeper prevents fragmentation before it can happen -- automatically and invisibly. Get peak read/write speeds and reliability while lowering energy needs and extending disk longevity. Without Diskeeper, performance will decline and costs rise. Diskeeper costs less than running without it. See for yourself. Download 30 day trialware now. In this Issue Cisco-sponsored EEE ratified, ready for interop tests Microsoft: No Windows Phone 7 for tablets on horizon Smackdown: Windows Phone 7 phones vs. iPhone 4 vs. Droid X Q&A: Microsoft's Bob Muglia details cloud strategy Will Web-scale servers find a role in the enterprise? Oracle, IBM hold hands on Java Join in the First Robot Census Most large companies seeing more hack attacks, survey shows Death, taxes and bandwidth growth Oracle database admins acknowledge security gaps WEBCAST: NeuStar, Inc. 30 Minutes to Faster Web Pages Join this discussion and learn the importance and nuances of load testing, measuring scalability, setting page performance and transaction response rates, and what to do when things go wrong. You'll even hear performance improvement tips that are quick to implement and free. View Now Cisco-sponsored EEE ratified, ready for interop tests Now that the IEEE has ratified the 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet standard, it's time for the interoperability plugfests. For its part, Cisco claims to be a "primary sponsor" of 802.3az. Read More Microsoft: No Windows Phone 7 for tablets on horizon Microsoft does not have immediate plans to port the Windows Phone 7 mobile OS to tablets, a company official said on Monday. Windows Phone 7 is designed for small-screen devices such as smartphones and is not designed to work with larger screen devices. Read More Smackdown: Windows Phone 7 phones vs. iPhone 4 vs. Droid X Can the new Windows Phone 7 devices compete with heavyweights like the iPhone 4 and the Droid X? Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage for Windows Environments This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server data along with your Windows files using NetApp storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments. Read More! Q&A: Microsoft's Bob Muglia details cloud strategy Microsoft's Bob Muglia, head of the company's Server and Tools Division, is gung-ho on cloud computing and on Microsoft's efforts to make it easier for customers to embrace the technology. He talked about what Microsoft is doing in an interview with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and and InfoWorld.com Editor in Chief Eric Knorr. Read More Will Web-scale servers find a role in the enterprise? An emerging class of extremely low-power servers is helping Internet companies and hosting providers to slash their energy bills, and proponents say they could have a role in the enterprise as well. Read More Oracle, IBM hold hands on Java Oracle and IBM, who are usually bitter rivals, pledged on Monday to collaborate on OpenJDK, which has served as the principal reference implementation of open source Java. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Delivering Faster Applications to Any User, Anywhere This guide looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within a WAN Optimization environment. Read More Join in the First Robot Census Have you ever wondered exactly how many robots we have these days between Roombas and Aibos and whatever other bots we have in our homes? Well one person's not only wondered about it, they're determined to find out with the first census meant exclusively for robots. Read More Most large companies seeing more hack attacks, survey shows Is this year turning out to be even worse for getting hacked than last year? That's what a survey of 350 IT and network professionals would indicate, with large companies in particular reporting this to be worse than last in terms of suffering at least one network intrusion of their user machines, office network or servers. Read More Death, taxes and bandwidth growth Despite modest economic growth, 2010 marks a year of pent-up demand for WAN bandwidth, although IT professionals seem leery of predicting wholesale increases. Read More Oracle database admins acknowledge security gaps Database security is rife with pitfalls, according to 430 Oracle database administrators surveyed by the Independent Oracle Users Group. Read More
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