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	Winding one's way towards insanity Sometimes the best response to annoyance is to laugh. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 6 Key Dedupe Challenges The deduplication market is the fastest segment ofthe storage industry, per IDC. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today! In this Issue U.S. international cyberspace policy sounds good; will be hard to implement Apple of my eye? US fancies a huge metaphor repository Siemens' 'damage control' response to SCADA bug frustrates researcher Check Point's new security blades cut both ways Privacy regs won't kill innovation so stop whining 7 questions about the Mac malware scare Everything's a scam ... or so it seems How to stop your executives from being harpooned PlayStation Network hack will cost Sony $170M Secure authentication to the cloud WHITE PAPER: Dell Converged Communications: People and Applications in Synch Most small and midsize organizations find implementing unified communications a daunting task, between lack of in-house expertise and complex integration issues, it's easy to back burner this project. Find out how to implement a communications strategy in this Collaboration KnowledgeVault. Learn more U.S. international cyberspace policy sounds good; will be hard to implement The ambitious new U.S. strategy for securing the Internet sets critical goals that may be hard to put into practice, experts say, because some of them conflict and pose seemingly insurmountable technical problems. Read More Apple of my eye? US fancies a huge metaphor repository Researchers with the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity want to build a repository of metaphors. You read that right.  Not just American/English metaphors mind you but those of Iranian Farsi, Mexican Spanish and Russian speakers. Read More Siemens' 'damage control' response to SCADA bug frustrates researcher Siemens said it intends to fix a vulnerability discovered in its industrial control system products, but the NSS Labs researcher who found the bug says the company seems to be downplaying the seriousness of the problem to save face. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Avert a Storage Space and Power Crisis Cornell Medical College was exceeding space and power capacities in its NYC data center. After evaluating storage arrays from multiple vendors, they chose 3PAR to "right-size" their storage and deploy a robust, highly virtualized infrastructure that integrated seamlessly with VMware, reduced their storage footprint and minimized power consumption. Read Now. Check Point's new security blades cut both ways If you're in the market for endpoint protection, Check Point's new R80 Unified Endpoint Security Management product shows promise. Read More Privacy regs won't kill innovation so stop whining The founder of the Reputation.com Web site criticized Internet industry giants who claim that any regulation to try to protect the privacy of consumers online would stifle innovation. A Microsoft executive at the Privacy Identity Innovation Conference 2011 agreed, but only up to a point, warning that at this early stage in the digital age, the wrong regulation can have "a chilling effect." Read... Read More 7 questions about the Mac malware scare A few answers help clarify what the MacDefender scareware plague really means for Mac users and administrators Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Optimally Configured Virtualized Environments Designed for small and midsize businesses, the three reference architectures in this technical document explain how to successfully deploy Dell PowerEdge servers, Hyper-V R2 and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage. These proven configurations eliminate trial and error. Learn more. Everything's a scam ... or so it seems An editor at Salon recently wrote an excruciatingly candid account of her having been snookered by an Internet scam. Read More How to stop your executives from being harpooned 'Whaling' is a growing security threat that uses personalized phishing techniques to get your most sensitive data and access to your key networks Read More PlayStation Network hack will cost Sony $170M Sony expects the hack of the PlayStation Network and will cost it ¥14 billion (US$170 million) this financial year, it said Monday. Read More Secure authentication to the cloud Directories and directory stores featured in a great workshop session I attended at the recent European Identity Conference (EIC), which was also a good place to catch up with an old friend, Michel Prompt -- CEO of Radiant Logic, one of the pioneers in virtual directories. I want to tell you about a new service from Radiant Logic. Read More
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