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	Tech pros getting MBAs: Necessary or not? Earning an MBA can help tech pros to bridge the gap between business and IT, but it's no guarantee of career success, nor does it automatically translate into a bigger salary. Read More WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) What Really Happens to Your Deleted Files You might be surprised! In this White Paper, many of the common and incorrect assumptions about file protection and recovery are detailed as well as a look Condusiv Technologies' Undelete 10, which fills many of the gaps left by other "recovery" methods. Read Now! In this Issue IETF vs. ITU: Internet standards face-off Network World's 15 Hottest Tech Arguments How to test-drive Windows 8 for free in VirtualBox Cisco, VMware and OpenFlow fragment SDNs Attackers can abuse Yahoo developer feature to steal user emails, other data Epic Interconnect Clash! InfiniBand vs. Gigabit Ethernet Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 It's time for network managers to do things the easy way Cisco acquires network planning company for $141M WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. IETF vs. ITU: Internet standards face-off A battle is brewing between two standards bodies - the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - over which group will be the primary source of the underlying communications protocols that allow the Internet to operate in the future. Read More Network World's 15 Hottest Tech Arguments Here's our take on the nastiest, most colorful and in some cases, still unresolved network industry arguments. Read More How to test-drive Windows 8 for free in VirtualBox Upgrading to a new operating system can beA an intimidating undertaking that massively disrupts your daily workflow. And considering the dramatic interface changes introduced in Windows 8, you may not want to invest in Microsoft's latest OS without first giving it a thorough shakedown. Read More WHITE PAPER: RedSeal Networks The Challenge of Continuous Monitoring It's a daunting responsibility: keeping an enterprise network secure and in compliance with government regulations. This customizable white paper gives you strategies for doing so, based on the specific demands of your industry and whether you are a security or IT pro. Learn More Cisco, VMware and OpenFlow fragment SDNs Juniper Networks Executive Vice President Bob Muglia spelled it out succinctly: the nascent software-defined networking market is morphing into three camps - OpenFlow/open source, Cisco and VMware. Read More Attackers can abuse Yahoo developer feature to steal user emails, other data Attackers can read emails, contacts and other private data from the accounts of Yahoo users who visit a malicious page by abusing a feature present on Yahoo's Developer Network website, according to an independent security researcher. Read More Epic Interconnect Clash! InfiniBand vs. Gigabit Ethernet A few years back, picking the protocol to link your computers together into a network was a no-brainer. The servers in a mid-sized data center were wired together using Ethernet. And if you wanted to connect many nodes into a single high performance computer (HPC), you went with InfiniBand. Read More WEBCAST: Meru Networks Impact of 802.11ac on WLAN In this webinar, industry expert Craig Mathias and Robert Crisp from Meru Networks will discuss the impact 802.11ac will have on enterprise WLAN networks and how to best prepare for it. Learn more. Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 These days, Cisco network administrators are a nation divided. Read More It's time for network managers to do things the easy way There may be nothing more mystical or intimidating in corporate IT than the Cisco CLI used to configure and manage the company's switches and routers. Those who have mastered it use a combination of shortcuts, homegrown tools, scripts and other techniques to complete even the simplest of tasks. Those who haven't struggle for hours looking through Cisco Press books and scouring Cisco's support. Read More Cisco acquires network planning company for $141M Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Cariden Technologies, a Sunnyvale, Calif., developer of network planning, design and traffic management software for service providers. Read More
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