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	Private social networks playing Facebook role in more workplaces From retail chains to electric utilities to manufacturers, a growing number of U.S. corporations are harnessing the power of social networks to modernize how their employees communicate with each other, business partners and customers -- making these firms more nimble in the marketplace and leaving their less Facebook-savvy rivals trailing. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More In this Issue 5 steps to high-speed Ethernet What's OpenFlow's killer app? Cisco CEO's pay falls 32% Meru software applies corporate Wi-Fi security to private devices Ex-Facebook exec pushes software-defined networks US Department of Labor teams with Facebook to help jobless people Test aims to disprove data center dogma Researchers ID Skype users who also use BitTorrent New details emerge about Oracle's Social Network With 250M tweets a day, Twitter plans 'simplicity' strategy WHITE PAPER: HP Reducing Network Complexity In this white paper you will learn about the challenges associated with conventional switch solutions; the advantages of HP's Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF), and the very real business benefits that can result from installing HP A-series switches that employ this technology. Read now 5 steps to high-speed Ethernet If you're considering the move to 40/100gigabit Ethernet, here are 5 things to keep in mind. Read More What's OpenFlow's killer app? As most participants at the inaugural Open Networking Summit extolled the virtues of software-defined networking (SDN) and the OpenFlow protocol, others are waiting for key features to emerge before considering it for their networks. Read More Cisco CEO's pay falls 32% CEO John Chambers received compensation valued at $12.9 million in Cisco's 2011 fiscal year, a period when the company restructured operations, shuttered its Flip videocam business and eliminated 12,000 jobs Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems New Deployment Models for Communications and Collaboration This document will help you understand the differences between the options and show you how Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions give you the flexibility to determine the best option for your business. Read now Meru software applies corporate Wi-Fi security to private devices WLAN vendor Meru Networks has announced a new optional software module that lets its Wi-Fi networks recognize privately owned clients and automatically configure them to meet corporate security and management policies. Read More Ex-Facebook exec pushes software-defined networks The migration toward software-defined networks will move faster than carriers' migration to IP (Internet Protocol) in the late 1990s, Facebook's former technical operations chief says. Read More US Department of Labor teams with Facebook to help jobless people Facebook, the U.S. Department of Labor, and some other organizations are partnering to help jobless people in the country find employment through social networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix 5X capacity on-demand.No new hardware. NetScaler Pay-as-You-Grow. 5x capacity on-demand. No new hardware. The Iron Age is officially over. The Cloud Age is here. Read now Test aims to disprove data center dogma In an experiment that began in January, decommissioned Trinity Health servers, networking gear and storage systems have been running outdoors in a simple shed without failure. Takeaway: IT equipment appears to be a lot tougher than conventional wisdom says. Insider content (registration required) Read More Researchers ID Skype users who also use BitTorrent Entertainment companies seeking to trace people who are illegally file sharing may be interested in new research that could identify filesharers through their Skype accounts. A research team has figured out how to link online Skype users to their activity on peer-to-peer networks, a correlation that could represent a major threat to users' privacy. Read More New details emerge about Oracle's Social Network More specifics about Oracle's new Social Network software came to light following the product's debut at the OpenWorld conference earlier this month. Read More With 250M tweets a day, Twitter plans 'simplicity' strategy With Twitter handling a quarter of a billion tweets a day, company CEO Dick Costolo said he's focusing on keeping things simple. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 2011 tech industry graveyard Fortunately for the tech industry, there's a lot more living than dying, with 2011 seeing the birth of everything from Apple's iPad 2 to the Google+ social network. But inevitably, 2011 has also seen its share of dead, killed, murdered, offed, obliterated companies, technologies and ideas as well. Here's your chance to pay last respects, and who knows, maybe a few of these will sprout back to life. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Oct. 21 The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake? Cisco CEO's pay falls 32% Gartner: 10 key IT trends for 2012 Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill iPad 2 vs. business class tablets Cheap power: An overnight revolution Wi-Fi devices crowd 2.4GHz band; IT looks to 5GHz SQL injection attack has compromised nearly 200,000 ASP.Net sites Steve Jobs ranted, raged against Android as 'grand theft'
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