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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Is Sprint finally rebounding?

HP-Palm buy FAQ | Microsoft patch causes hiccup in Cisco WAAS

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Is Sprint finally rebounding?
Sprint's fortunes could scarcely have been worse over the past three years, but it's starting to look like the company is at least getting worse more slowly. Read More


WEBCAST: HyTrust

8 Tips for Virtualization Under Control
Examine 8 tips that will show you how to virtualize more critical workloads with confidence. From security planning and policy management to automation and access controls, get expert advice on how to build a more secure virtual infrastructure to accelerate the virtualization of business-critical applications. Learn More!

WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Business Agility Strategies For Midsize Organizations
Midsize businesses have enormous IT pressures: building an infrastructure that is flexible, designed to accommodate rapid growth and meets compliance challenges with resources nowhere near larger enterprises. This video whitepaper explains how Oracle is delivering applications specifically for midsize businesses. Learn More

HP-Palm buy FAQ
What are the financial basics of this deal? Read More

Microsoft patch causes hiccup in Cisco WAAS
A Microsoft patch is causing a glitch in Cisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) WAN acceleration appliance. Cisco issued a field notice on the anomaly early this week. Read More

Cisco expands cloud-based security services
In the latest chapter of what it calls its "Secure Borderless Network" initiative, Cisco Wednesday is announcing expanded reporting capability for its ScanSafe Web-filtering service as well as the addition of a data-loss prevention option for the company's cloud-based e-mail security service. Read More

Interop: HP sees no China-related threat to U.S. business
HP's immersion into China stemming from the purchase of 3Com does not present challenges as far as landing enterprise accounts in North America, specifically with large governmental institutions, according to the company's networking chief. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide
Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More!

Interop: Cloud security raises concerns for auditors
If you think meeting security audits is tough, try passing one if you've got your data in a cloud, Interop attendees were told today. Read More

Cisco Adds Web Conferencing for Blackberry
Nemertes recently noted an 85% increase in the number of companies that have crafted an overall mobility strategy. The strategy typically defines devices, applications, and plans to leverage new end-point capabilities. Read More

Google Apps basics
Google Apps is a valid and inexpensive alternative to Microsoft Office, but lacks rich functionality. Read More

Smartphone management becoming a nightmare
A survey of 475 Interop attendees pegged mobile device management as the biggest mobile concern, with 200 people saying that is their top worry. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NetApp

Top 5 Hyper-V Best Practices
Read this whitepaper to get advice on everything from making sure you configure enough network connections, especially in iSCSI, to specifying the specific initiator groups and the correct LUN type when provisioning the NetApp LUN for use with Hyper-V. Learn More!

Will iPad kick Adobe Flash off the Internet?
When the iPad was introduced, there was much furor over the fact that it is missing what some (a vocal minority) consider to be a key feature -- Adobe Flash support. Read More

Texas man to plead guilty to building botnet-for-hire
A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP -- just to show off its firepower to a potential customer. Read More

How to Fix Anything
Your PC will crash, your camera will break, your network will fail, and your printer will chew up paper. Before you spend valuable time and money waiting for tech support or paying for a professional technician, read our handy guide to basic repairs for your PC, home network, printer, digital camera, and smartphone. Read More

Observations from Interop
I'm here in the wasteful energy capital of the world, Las Vegas, for Interop. After back-to-back meetings and a few strolls across the show floor, here are some of my observations. Read More



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Confessions of tech hoarders
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Interop history quiz
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