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	Google apologizes for Gmail bug that shook 150,000 users Google says it is "very sorry" for a Gmail software bug that reset some 150,000 accounts and left their owners contemplating the prospect of having lost years worth of data. The outage affected only a fraction of 1% of Gmail users, but its severity was particularly noteworthy. Read More WHITE PAPER: PacketMotion PacketSentry Virtual Segmentation While firewalls are a widely accepted technology for the Internet perimeter, when deployed internally for PCI scope segmentation they have significant deficiencies. This white paper outlines the issues faced with leveraging firewalls for internal network segmentation, and how PacketSentry bypasses these issues with a unique out of band approach. Read now! In this Issue How cars could know if you're too drunk to drive IBM products aim to speed up, automate virtualization In dog-bites-man news, Bank of America Web site fails again Microsoft IE browser losing influence as Web application traffic explodes HP touts greater capacity of new 11n Wi-Fi access points Partners convene amid Cisco transition Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking CEBIT: RoboThespian sings, does impersonations NASA recruiting sponsors for new high-tech competitions Latency concerns not stopping overseas clouds DOWNLOAD: Diskeeper Get More System Speed and Reliability Without Diskeeper, every server suffers from fragmentation. Only Diskeeper cures and prevents fragmentation and maximizes the performance and stability each server was designed to deliver. Costs far less than trying to run a site without it. Read More How cars could know if you're too drunk to drive Researchers and technologists are working on unobtrusive alcohol-detection technologies for cars Read More IBM products aim to speed up, automate virtualization IBM is aiming to make it easier for enterprises to manage their virtualized environments, with new features in the Tivoli Provisioning Manager and other software products. Read More In dog-bites-man news, Bank of America Web site fails again Latest BoA problems come on top of mid-January fiasco Stop me if you've heard this one before ... and if you do any business online with Bank of America I can already hear you yelling, "Stop! Stop! Stop!" Unfortunately for BoA and its customers, these outages just won't stop. (2011's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries) Today, not six weeks after its last headline-grabbing online debacle, Bank of America is once again dealing with irate customers pounding... Read More ARTICLE: BMC Sun Chemical Manages Complex Batch See how the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, Sun Chemical Corporation, uses the advanced enterprise scheduling capabilities of BMC Control-M to keep complex business-critical batch processes running effortlessly. Sun IT lead: "Without it, we would need at least three times the number of people in our team." Learn More Now! Microsoft IE browser losing influence as Web application traffic explodes Microsoft Internet Explorer use is dropping and Web application traffic is surging according to one study of how employees at about 2,000 companies made use of the Internet over the past year. Read More HP touts greater capacity of new 11n Wi-Fi access points HP's new 802.11n Wi-Fi access points include two models that support three data streams, capable of yielding a data rate of 450Mbps per radio, or 900Mbps per access point. That translates into greater throughput, sustained over longer distances compared with products that use two data streams. Read More Partners convene amid Cisco transition New Orleans summit with channel allies comes at inflection point for company After a week of vacation to ski and celebrate my daughter's 8th birthday, I'll be blogging this week from the Cisco Partner Summit in New Orleans. This is an annual confab of Cisco and its authorized reseller, channel and go-to-market allies, a rally of sorts to ensure everyone is singing from the same hymnal. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Four Pillar Strategy for Next Generation Data Centers Enterprises today are migrating from a purely physical infrastructure to a highly efficient virtualized infrastructure and potentially to a fully enabled cloud environment. This migration promises to greatly enhance the efficiency and scalability of data center operations. Read now! Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking Extreme Networks is going mobile. The company today wheeled out a roadmap that will steer the company's product line toward mobile device and application access, availability and management support. Read More CEBIT: RoboThespian sings, does impersonations One of the stars of Cebit 2011 is RoboThespian, an entertainment robot from the UK. It won't vacuum your floor and can't make cars like other robots, it's sole purpose is to communicate and it does that with a good deal of humor. Read More NASA recruiting sponsors for new high-tech competitions NASA gearing up for more Centennial Challenges Organizing, managing, running and paying for a high-tech competition, especially the kind NASA typically offers can be an expensive proposition. Read More Latency concerns not stopping overseas clouds Concerns about latency and questions about security and regulatory issues aren't stopping CIOs from moving key systems to the cloud, even if it means using apps hosted in data centers on the other side of the globe. Read More
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