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	Fave raves: 22 IT pros name their favorite products We asked, and IT pros answered. Their favorite IT products keep people productive and enterprise assets safe. Check out the list. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems Inc. Move Fearlessly Among the Clouds. It's open, yet secure. Agile, yet efficient. Virtual, yet real. It builds on your current network, combining servers, networking, storage and virtualization. So you can deploy applications in minutes, not weeks. Move among the clouds. Grow your business. And turn silos into new ways of working together. Introducing the Cisco Data Center Business Advantage. In this Issue Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know? What's so great about Spiceworks? Cloud development: 9 gotchas to know before you jump in Sony "rebuilding" PlayStation Network after attack Cloud storage device maker Cirtas stumbles Survey: How much does Windows Patching burden you? iPhone stays on top for enterprises, according to Good US goes after some game-changing energy projects Friday Funny video: Bad Project (Lady Gaga parody): Can you relate? WEBCAST: BMC Software Get the Leading ITSM Suite on your Terms BMC Remedy OnDemand offers the power of the industry's leading IT Service Management solution with the flexibility of Software as a Service. And when your needs change, switching between the OnDemand and on-premise BMC Remedy suite is seamless. Watch the demo for a peek inside BMC Remedy OnDemand. View Today! Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know? Quora is an increasingly popular social network for asking and answering questions on topics ranging from how Britney Spears was discovered to how to flee Tokyo following an earthquake. But the venture funded start-up, which was formed by a couple of ex-Facebook execs, also is filled with plenty of crowdsourced expertise about work-related topics for IT pros, such as whether Cisco will buy EMC, how the iPad might be used at work and how to improve Ubuntu. Read More What's so great about Spiceworks? Spiceworks users are a loyal bunch, judging by their raves about the open-source IT management software. Read More Cloud development: 9 gotchas to know before you jump in Whether developing, testing, or deploying your apps in the cloud, you have to unlearn some beliefs and learn new ones to make it work Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Hybrid Hosting: Evolving the Cloud in 2011 Many organizations are turning to hybrid hosting. An ideal fit for businesses that need the ability to combine physical and cloud-based resources, hybrid hosting offers enhanced security and more user control over traditional cloud-only hosting. Read more from industry leaders Rackspace and AMD in this whitepaper. Read now! Sony "rebuilding" PlayStation Network after attack The outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, now in its fourth day, looks set to continue after the company said on Sunday that it is "rebuilding" its system to better guard against attacks. Read More Cloud storage device maker Cirtas stumbles Cirtas last week took a bump and laid off most of its staff, saying there were operational problems with its Cirtas BlueJet Controller that needed to be retooled for extensibility. The startup, which has received $32.5 million in funding, is the latest company to pull out of the crowded cloud storage arena. Read More Survey: How much does Windows Patching burden you? Network World wants to gauge the burden for enterprise companies of keeping Windows patched. Will you help? This survey will take about five minutes of your time and is anonymous. We are not gathering information about the identities of participants. If you have comments about the survey, or the topic of Windows patch management, you can submit them via the survey, or e-mail them directly to Network... Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now! iPhone stays on top for enterprises, according to Good The availability of the iPhone on Verizon and AT&T's discount on the iPhone 3GS kept Android at bay in the enterprise, at least for customers of Good Technology. Read More US goes after some game-changing energy projects Taking aim at developing some progressive energy technologies the US Department of Energy said it will write a $130 million check to develop five areas, including plants engineered to replace oil, thermal power storage, rare earth alternatives and what it calls the energy equivalent of an Internet router. More energy projects: Energy research projects were on fire in 2010 Read More Friday Funny video: Bad Project (Lady Gaga parody): Can you relate? This video has had 2.7 million views on YouTube. Although it is based on a biotech grad student, I'm guessing that most people who work in IT could relate. Please be warned, there are a few words in here that some would consider offensive, but it is mostly just silly fun. The folks at Zheng Lab sure went all out including multiple costume changes and big dance scenes. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a 5-day Microsoft Licensing Tricks class teaching negotiation tips; a Polycom system. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of Cisco Unity books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS 13 cool features of Office 365 Microsoft released the official beta version of Office 365 today, but we've been playing with it for a while now. Here are 13 cool features of the cloud-based service that combines Office, SharePoint, Lync and Exchange. MOST-READ STORIES Asia out of IPv4 addresses Four things RIM's PlayBook got wrong Six Windows 7 nightmares (and how to fix them) Computer factories eat more energy than the devices they build Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls OpenFlow opens new doors for networks Red Hat becomes cloud service provider 10 must-have utilities for small networks Berners-Lee: Web access is a 'human right' Did you hear about the hacker who stole the open source code?
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