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	Squeeze WAN providers now for a better cloud later Businesses should be formulating cloud strategies now that get the most out of their network providers to better support whatever cloud services they wind up buying, according to a prominent cloud-economics expert. Read More WHITE PAPER: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?     Using VMware NIC Teaming?     Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)     Get this essential FREE white paper now     11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff Click to continue In this Issue Sonic.net plans 1Gbps fiber service to San Francisco homes IT Blogwatch: SOPA hearing: Bi-partisan political FAIL In Search of the Tech-Savvy Airport The best of Network World's Gift Guide 2011 3 tips for avoiding tablet management headaches iBahn, supplier of hotel internet services, denies breach WHITE PAPER: Symantec E-Discovery and Archiving In this eGuide, Computerworld and sister publications CIO, Network World, and IT World examine some of the hottest issues around e-discovery and archiving today. Read on to discover how some organizations are approaching data-management challenges, and the tools that are available to help. View Now Sonic.net plans 1Gbps fiber service to San Francisco homes Internet service provider Sonic.net unveiled an ambitious plan on Wednesday to build a fiber network that would reach most residences and small businesses in San Francisco with 1G bps Internet access. Read More IT Blogwatch: SOPA hearing: Bi-partisan political FAIL The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hearing by the House Judiciary Committee did not go well for those who fear it gives censorship power to big businesses. Many lawmakers demonstrated their ignorance of the Internet, while rejecting calls for expert assistance. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers follow the money.   Read More In Search of the Tech-Savvy Airport Editor's Letter Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Open Source Virtualization FAQ Learn the key advantages of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), reasons for moving from Xen open source to the KVM hypervisor, RHEV's scalability, and avoiding the rising costs of VMware. Learn More The best of Network World's Gift Guide 2011 Network World's own Indiana Shaw goes through more than just the temple of doom to find gifts suitable for you or other techies on your list. Just like his more famous archeologist cousin who digs up ancient artifacts and treasures from around the globe, Indiana Shaw scours the globe and the Internet to dig up the greatest technology treasures. Insider (registration required) Read More 3 tips for avoiding tablet management headaches Tablets are a tricky proposition for many IT departments since they have many of the content creation capabilities of laptops but lack mature security software. Insider (registration required) Read More iBahn, supplier of hotel internet services, denies breach iBahn, a provider of internet services to some 3,000 hotels worldwide, denied on Thursday a news report that its network was breached by hackers. Read More
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