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	U.S. building next wave of supercomputers The U.S. is building two 20-petaflop supercomputers, many times more powerful than anything operating today, including China's new supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, which is expected to be officially crowned next week as the world's fastest system. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Webcast: Is Virtualization Right for SMBs? You've heard that large companies embrace virtualization to consolidate their data centers, reduce costs, and improve operating efficiency and IT service levels. However, your data center only has tens of servers, not hundreds or thousands. Should you consider virtualization as well? View this webcast to learn more. Register now! In this Issue 10 offbeat gift ideas: 2010 edition Facebook unveils new messaging system IT Ethics Survey Apple promises unforgettable something or other tomorrow 5 Awesome Free Tools For Small Businesses Microsoft breaks petaflop barrier, loses Top 500 spot to Linux Is There a Problem with iPad Wi-Fi? New Stuxnet clues suggest sabotage of Iran's uranium enrichment program A handy QoS configuration tool WHITE PAPER: Sprint Next Wave of Growth for Unified Communications Today's enterprise is undergoing a significant transformation, moving toward becoming a true Anywhere Enterprise®—a company where the workers can access any information from any device over any network. Enterprise mobility has been a crucial component in kicking off the evolutionary process. Learn More 10 offbeat gift ideas: 2010 edition When we receive pitches for the holiday gift guide, we get a lot of suggestions that are a bit off the beaten path, or we didn't get around to receiving them or answering their pitch. Here's a bunch of product suggestions that didn't make the main guide, but are unique and cool enough to consider this year. Read More Facebook unveils new messaging system Killing recent rumors that it's launching an e-mail killer, Facebook today unveiled a new messaging system that will envelope e-mail, instant messages, Facebook messages and SMS. Read More IT Ethics Survey Network World is conducting a short, 7-question survey about ethics in the IT workplace. Is it unethical to buy fake gear? To allow DRM files to be swapped on the corporate network? Participation is anonymous. Please take the survey. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Buyers Guide to Data Loss Prevention Solutions This guide provides a list of recommended features and capabilities for buyers to consider when purchasing a DLP solution. Buyers can also use this guide to develop requests for proposals, as well as to help differentiate one vendor's products from another during demonstrations and proof-of-concepts. Read More Apple promises unforgettable something or other tomorrow And company's marketers appear unconcerned about raising expectations too high It will be just like we all remember where we were when the airplanes hit the twin towers, or the first time we had sex (the latter meaning me with my someone and you with yours, not the two of us together, which for all but a handful of you - and I'm not even sure they read this blog -- well, I digress.) Read More 5 Awesome Free Tools For Small Businesses These are frugal times for business, and an organization starting out might have very little money to spend on IT. Even if you're part of an established business, you're probably feeling the pinch. Read More Microsoft breaks petaflop barrier, loses Top 500 spot to Linux Microsoft says a Windows-based supercomputer has broken the petaflop speed barrier, but the achievement is not being recognized by the group that tracks the world's fastest supercomputers, because the same machine was able to achieve higher speeds using Linux. 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! Is There a Problem with iPad Wi-Fi? A quick perusal of the Web indicates that there may be issues with the range, throughput, and connection reliability of the iPad's Wi-Fi link. My own experience, however, removes all doubt. Read More New Stuxnet clues suggest sabotage of Iran's uranium enrichment program Researchers have uncovered new clues that the Stuxnet worm may have been created to sabotage Iranian attempts to turn uranium into atomic bomb-grade fuel. Read More A handy QoS configuration tool Configuring QoS is not a hard task for me, with all the time that I spent in front of it while studying for certs and or configuring network devices it is easy. Nevertheless, it is time consuming and requires many details that I prefer to not memorize if I do not have to. Well, apparently there is a tool for that, which I got to know through this blog and wanted to share back. Read More
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. Goodies from the Subnets We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one! SLIDESHOWS Microsoft Windows after 25 years: A visual history More than nine out of 10 computers run some version of Windows. But no one could have predicted that would be the case when Windows 1.0 launched 25 years ago as a graphical front end for MS-DOS. Here's a look at Windows through the years and some thoughts on what the future might hold. Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. MOST-READ STORIES Traveler to TSA: If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested Microsoft breaks petaflop barrier, loses Top 500 spot to Linux Cisco apps for the iPhone and iPad Best networking tweaks for Windows Server, Vista and XP Inside an alleged iPad killer: the Samsung Galaxy Tab Researchers take down Koobface servers Ex-Apple 'grip of death' exec lands at Cisco Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair What's at the core of Cisco's plight? Russian Armenian botnet suspect raked in €100,00 a month
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