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	Attachmate buying Novell for $2.2 billion Novell announced Monday it has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate for $2.2 billion, ending months of speculation over its future. Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Google Invests in Cloud-Controlled WiFi Effective management is key to wireless success. View this Webcast to hear how cloud-controlled wireless management provides the security, remote administration and reliability resource-constrained IT departments require. Learn more now! In this Issue Ultimate endpoint management tools 12-year old nails Microsoft certification 12 Ubuntu Derivatives You Should Consider Why is license compliance so %$#$% hard? 'Cisco Cultural Advisor' might help workers collaborate 10 free iPhone apps for spectacular stargazing Speed up Linux: No kernel patch required Creepy RFID Tracking Coming Soon to Human Embryos High-end version of SQL Server 2008 R2 'late to market,' analyst says Chambers apologizes for Cisco's light Q2 IPv6 – some specific recommendations WEBCAST: IBM Cloud as the Next Generation of Service Delivery Exceptional growth in data is driving a need to transform the delivery of services. Understand the "road map" to transform and learn how IBM adds value at every step from virtualization, consolidation, automation, and ultimately cloud computing. Learn More Ultimate endpoint management tools LANDesk, Altiris, Zenworks lead the way in this test of six PC life-cycle management products. Read More 12-year old nails Microsoft certification It's kind of an old joke of the high technology era that if you can't figure out your new computer, wi-fi router, TiVo or other confounding product, ask a kid for help. One of my nephews, at age five, took the controls for Grand Theft Auto out of my hands because I was doing it wrong. Read More 12 Ubuntu Derivatives You Should Consider It's no secret that Ubuntu 10.10, or Maverick Meerkat, is one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions of all time for business and home users. Read More E-GUIDE: IBM eGuide: A New Look at BI Craft better IT strategies, build new, targeted products and achieve operational savings. These are just some of the benefits derived from business intelligence (BI) software. This expert guide from CIO, Computerworld, InfoWorld and Network World provide an overview of recent BI trends and how to leverage its most powerful features. Learn more. Why is license compliance so %$#$% hard? Mark Gibbs challenges the BSA to make our lives easier. Read More 'Cisco Cultural Advisor' might help workers collaborate Cisco Systems is quietly developing a mobile application that profiles how users work and communicate, with the aim of helping them work better together. Read More 10 free iPhone apps for spectacular stargazing There's a lot to watch in the nighttime sky -- everything from the International Space Station and meteor showers to planets and stars. There are tons of iPhone apps that can help everyone who has a little (or a lot) of astronomer blood in them watch the sky with more authority. Here we take a look at a few of the free apps that can help you out. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage Buying Criteria for Shared Virtual Infrastructure 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! Speed up Linux: No kernel patch required Want to speed up your Linux desktop without compiling a new kernel? You don't need a 200-plus line patch for the Linux kernel when a couple of lines of Bash will do the trick. Read More Creepy RFID Tracking Coming Soon to Human Embryos Tracking via RFID and barcodes will soon start at pre-birth stages when babies are only human embryos. Read More High-end version of SQL Server 2008 R2 'late to market,' analyst says Analysts have muted expectations for the parallel data warehouse (PDW) edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 that Microsoft is scheduled to ship next month. Read More Chambers apologizes for Cisco's light Q2 Cisco CEO John Chambers reportedly apologized to shareholders this week for Cisco's bleak outlook for its current fiscal second quarter. Cisco is guiding to growth of only 3% to 5% for Q2, down drastically from Wall Street's expectations of 13%. Read More IPv6 – some specific recommendations This newsletter wraps up our discussion of IPv6 transition plans for the moment. And while we may have felt that the Federal Government may be a little overly zealous in its plans and mandates, and adoption by the Feds certainly does not mean that it's a good idea, there's no question that IPv6 needs to be on your radar scope for a transition within the next two to five years. Read More
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