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	Network Instruments delivers improved insight for global energy company At Apache, a Houston-based global energy company, 2010 has been a year of increased network visibility, says Dave Schraudt, network analyst at the Fortune 500 corporation. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. 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No single-vendor networks for you The popular perception has been that simplicity in managing a single-vendor network naturally delivers cost efficiencies down -- and that has often been a primary justification for "sole-sourcing" network purchases. But Gartner's new study of nine enterprises running dual-vendor or multivendor network environments yielded results indicating something completely different. Read More The right office apps for the iPad at work If you provide or allow employees an iPad, here are the productivity apps that you should install on them. Read More How Microsoft may help open source in court It's a rare day when proponents of free and open source software are rooting for Microsoft in court, yet that's exactly what's going on with regard to the software giant's battle against Canadian i4i, which specializes in collaborative content technologies. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Achieving True Collaboration in Global Development Globalization has given organizations around the world unprecedented access to personnel and to marketplaces. For some, this has meant the growth of the distributed organization. For others, globalization has meant the routine outsourcing of functions that only a few years ago were considered core capabilities. Still others combine the practices. Click to Continue Hire green IT managers now, Forrester urges Infrastructure and operations leaders should be now investing in green IT managers, not more technology and process improvement, to maximise value, according to Forrester. Read More IT managers struggle with applications black hole IT departments are failing to address an applications "black hole" with IT managers in the dark about software usage and cost. Read More The end of a design era What are some of the changes that have to occur in the data center LAN in order to support cloud computing? Read More WHITE PAPER: Scriptlogic PacketTrap IT Network & IT Infrastructure Management PacketTrap IT is a comprehensive solution that solves problems with bandwidth, connectivity, network & infrastructure performance quickly & easily. PacketTrap supports multiple sites, is easier to use & more complete than traditional network monitoring products. Download a FREE 21 day trial. Learn More IE's share slides again as IE6 starts to fades away Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser again lost usage share last month to rivals Google and Apple, posting its largest decline since March, a Web analytics firm said. Read More Microsoft urges Windows Phone 7 developers to "obfuscate" app code Microsoft is promoting the idea of code "obfuscation" as a way to make Windows Phone 7 apps more secure, and it's doing so via a partnership with PreEmptive Solutions. The vendor now offers a special Windows Phone version of its code obfuscation tool along with a set of cloud-based service that collects, manages, and reports analytical data captured from the downloaded WP7 apps. Read More Logicworks marries managed hosting with new public cloud Logicworks is launching a public cloud offering that can be linked to its existing managed hosting service. Read More HP unifies application development management HP ALM 11 automates application modernization and covers requirement management, quality, and performance processes. Read More Business intelligence drives IT job demand The demand for business intelligence, service management skills, transformation projects in financial services, and the increased use of external providers in the NHS were key drivers for IT jobs demand last month. 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. December goodies from the Subnets SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people from Webucator, plus a brand new iPad available from Microsoft Subnet. Five massive libraries on CCNP, security, NX-OS up for grabs on Cisco Subnet. Enter to win! SLIDESHOWS Top IT Turkeys of 2010 Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on. 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 Five reasons to be grumpy about 2010 EFF backs red-faced porn watchers vs. copyright trolls Best networking tweaks for Linux 10 weirdest celebrity tech ads Help those with personal cyberstalking terrorists Inside the labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM WikiLeaks: China was behind Google hack Comcast outage encourages DIY DNS fix for some 10 things we love about Lync 2010 Report says Apple iPad 2 to have two cameras, USB port
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