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	Technologically clueless Russian spy hired as 'IT innovator' for bank Russian spy Anna Chapman is making headlines this week for posing provocatively in a photo spread in the Russian edition of Maxim magazine, but she equally deserves notoriety for landing a job as an IT security official in a Russian bank despite glaring gaps in her technical knowledge. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Are you Asking the Right Questions on Storage Decisions? You can't make the best storage decisions for your business if you're not asking the right questions. This new RFP template makes it easy. It reflects today's IT reality and includes the key criteria to consider so you can position your organization for the future. Learn more! In this Issue 10 Products Changing the Business World Cisco fleshes out its business video plan Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon Microsoft celebrates Windows 7's 1st birthday FBI fires back at report critical of complex computer project Interop New York 2010 - Top of the List Clearwire's 4G Trial Approaches 100Mbps AT&T posts revenue gain from mobile growth Apple sues maker of cables, batteries WHITE PAPER: NetApp Effectively Address your Biggest IT Challenges Meet your CAPEX and OPEX cost saving goals with a more efficient data storage strategy. Enterprise Strategy Group lays the groundwork on how to do just that in this whitepaper. Ensure you have the tools in place to keep costs down while better managing data growth. Read More! 10 Products Changing the Business World You say you want a revolution? These products and services are changing the way we work at our desks and on the road. Read More Cisco fleshes out its business video plan Cisco is releasing new gear that it says makes it practicable to deploy pervasive, flexible video across business networks regardless of the vendors' gear they choose to buy. Read More Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon Being a CIO -- or working for one -- no longer means just keeping a data center and network running. Now the CIO and the IT division must become "entrepreneurial" to drum up new customers for the business and learn how to deploy cutting-edge technologies such as "context-based computing" -- or risk becoming irrelevant. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG 8 Criteria for Server Load Balancing Server load balancers are a simple yet highly effective means to scale an application environment while ensuring its availability. Today's solutions should also address application performance and security. Read about the top eight criteria you should consider when choosing a server load balancer and how Citrix NetScaler meets those requirements. Read now! Microsoft celebrates Windows 7's 1st birthday Microsoft Thursday said more than 240 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold during the first year of the operating system's availability, a record the company says makes it the fastest selling OS in history. Read More FBI fires back at report critical of complex computer project Late, over budget and lacking critical components were the three main shots the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) leveled at the FBI this week in a report on the agency's over-arching computer system revamp known as Sentinel. Read More Interop New York 2010 - Top of the List OK - I think it's safe to say that the recession, at least in IT, is over. The show floor at Interop New York is packed. It's been a long time since getting down the aisles at an IT event took more than the occasional "pardon me", but that's what we have here. Attendance at the conference sessions is also heartening, and with that comes a good deal of discussion of the key issues facing wireless. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Click to Continue Clearwire's 4G Trial Approaches 100Mbps Clearwire recently released results of its LTE trial network in Phoenix, showing that the test network achieved speeds approaching 100Mbps. That's ridiculously fast compared to the current speeds of between 3 and 6Mbps on most commercial networks. Read More AT&T posts revenue gain from mobile growth AT&T on Thursday reported revenue of US$31.6 billion for the third quarter, up 2.8 percent from the third quarter of 2009, with mobile data revenue and mobile subscriber gains from the iPhone driving the growth. Read More Apple sues maker of cables, batteries Apple has filed a lawsuit accusing battery-maker Sanho of patent infringement. Read More
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