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	The world's coolest data centers Data centers gobble up energy and generate heat, but here are some data centers that try to do it with their own flair. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Xerox Are You Ready for Real Business? Companies around the globe know it's better to let Xerox handle their back-office business-process needs so they can focus on what matters most: their real business. Learn more about their new services including finance and accounting outsourcing, human resource services, customer care and IT outsourcing. Get ready for real business> In this Issue Final IPv4 addresses to be issued within months, NRO warns Researchers one step closer to 'bootless' computer Latest Facebook privacy flap: Big deal or overreaction? New malware technique targets intrusion-prevention systems 4G coming to New York, LA, San Francisco this year Atheros merges home Wi-Fi, powerline networks App acceleration: Managed service or roll your own? The Open Source Community Is Microsoft-phobic Tap dancing around the Fourth Amendment Zeus botnet gang targets Charles Schwab accounts How telepresence and Internet 2 changed Boston schools The Myth of the Smartphone Wars A Cisco IPhone app that is worth sharing WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. Read now! Final IPv4 addresses to be issued within months, NRO warns The global body in charge of allocating Internet addresses expects to hand out the final blocks of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses to regional registrars early next year, it said Monday. Read More Researchers one step closer to 'bootless' computer Physicists at the University of California have taken a giant leap closer to creating a new computer chip that gives memory the brains of a CPU, which promises to vastly improve computer performance and keep systems in an always-on state. Read More Latest Facebook privacy flap: Big deal or overreaction? This looks like one of those cases where the details matter a lot... and yet not so much. When The Wall Street Journal print edition carries a four-column headline at the top of page one, the newspaper is announcing to the world that that this story is a Major League Big Deal. This morning's headline: "Facebook in Privacy Breach: Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds." The headline screams "be afraid, be very afraid." However, a number of security experts -- while acknowledging that the newspaper has identified a legitimate issue - are calling the presentation of that news alarmist at best. Read More New malware technique targets intrusion-prevention systems A recently discovered category of malware -- advanced evasion techniques -- can sneak through most intrusion-prevention systems to deliver even well-known exploits such as Sasser and Conficker to targeted machines without leaving a trace of how they got there, researchers say. 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! 4G coming to New York, LA, San Francisco this year Clearwire is launching its 4G WiMax network in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles before the end of the year, it said Monday. Read More Atheros merges home Wi-Fi, powerline networks Chipmaker Atheros Communications tried to simplify home networks on Monday with reference designs for combined Wi-Fi and powerline networks, even as the technologies in this field remain complex and potentially confusing for consumers. Read More App acceleration: Managed service or roll your own? There no longer seems to be much argument about the need to optimize the performance of applications over wide area networks – the business requires service level guarantees and you're going to save money in the process. A win/win. The only question now is, do you buy and install the optimization gear yourself or put the responsibility in the lap of a service provider? Read More The Open Source Community Is Microsoft-phobic My fellow open source subnet blogger Joe Brockmeier came to the defense of OpenOffice pretty quickly after I wrote my previous post, that Microsoft has every right to compete against OpenOffice. Of course Joe is an old open source warrior. But like many warriors, Joe is busy fighting the the last war instead of the next one. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Get Storage Efficiency and Data Protection This paper will show how NetApp storage efficiency and data protection features allow for a higher level of protection without compromise on risk or cost. Read now! Tap dancing around the Fourth Amendment The fundamental issue is that the government appears to believe that Internet and wireless digital communications are essentially just modern versions of a 1950s analog telephone call. And we all know that the FBI and police departments have been able to wiretap phone calls for almost as long as there have been telephones. Read More Zeus botnet gang targets Charles Schwab accounts Criminals are now using a Zeus botnet to pillage Charles Schwab investment accounts, a security researcher said. Read More How telepresence and Internet 2 changed Boston schools Thanks to the advent of videoconferencing set up by Internet 2 connectivity, schools are now utilizing video services that help students learn more interactively. Read More The Myth of the Smartphone Wars Although the iPhone has a lot of admirers, it's possible to critique a smartphone without making it seems as if we are destined to default automatically to the iPhone and only one other rival platform. There should be enough room for more than two platforms coexisting without expecting one's imminent demise. Read More A Cisco IPhone app that is worth sharing A small diversion from my usual tech posting, but I thought this will be helpful for other Cisco professionals. Read More
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