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• Google Chrome: Our First Take
InformationWeek analysts and reporters delve into the Chrome's likely impact on IT organizations. We look at its strengths and weakness for enterprises, its impact for SaaS providers, its level of security, and offer a detailed review of the browser.
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• One Web, One Web ID
Users want a single Web ID, but businesses are hesitant. So far, OpenID is closest to making this happen, and it's a long way from widespread use.
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• 'A' Is For Audit-Proof
Could you benefit from an Active Directory security compliance assurance tool? Sure, but policy comes first.
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• Open Source For Sale
As more open source companies get acquired, questions and tensions are raised about the use of that software.
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Firewall Vendors Need To Bring More To The Table
Traditional firewalls are becoming more and more useless as we extend our networks and build VPN tunnels to remote staff and business partners. But there's a business opportunity for firewall vendors to expand their footprint by expanding their feature set.

Cloudbursting Handles Overflow Processing
Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr coined a new term last week for an old concept. Provisioning data center resources to handle sudden and extreme spikes in demand is nothing new, but Barr's hybrid application hosting model, which he calls "cloudbursting," goes a step further in combining both private data center resources and remote cloud resources such as Amazon Ec2, which provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

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• Radical Desktops Bring Power To The People
Contentious social, economic, and technologic forces are poised to fundamentally alter the end user experience by the end of the decade. Are you ready?
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• InformationWeek U.S. IT Salary Survey 2008
Salaries for business technology professionals are falling. Here's what you need to know in order to make good hiring decisions and personal career choices.
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• VoIP, Wi-Fi and the Path to Fixed Mobile Convergence
Vo-Fi is making its way into the enterprise, putting the holy grail of mobility within reach. This report will prepare you for the obstacles will encounter.
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• The New Sprawl: Managing Virtual Server Environments
Even as virtualization succeeds in limiting the number of physical servers in the data center, rampant VM growth is threatening to turn back our hard-won gains. The answer is strong management, but where to find it?
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• SOA: Convergence and Consolidation
As the service-oriented architecture industry mashes itself up, we look at which types of intermediary products are necessary and what can be brought inside the network infrastructure.
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• 2008 NAC Survey Report
The exponential growth of data, along with regulatory compliance and e-discovery issues, are driving the evolution of information management. This report examines ILM's drivers and inhibitors, and provides guidance for addressing enterprise needs.
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• 2008 InformationWeek Strategic Security Survey
This year, it's all about managing risk. That's the overall finding of our 2008 InformationWeek Strategic Security Study, which quizzed nearly 2,000 IT professionals about their plans and priorities for securing their companies' assets.
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