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Robert L. Mitchell

E-mail is the third rail of enterprise IT operations. You can mess up elsewhere, but bring down people’s e-mail and you’ll start getting irate calls literally in seconds.

Manesh Patel knows those risks well, but that didn’t stop the senior vice president and CIO at Sanmina-SCI Corp. from stepping off the Microsoft Outlook/Exchange platform and moving the company’s 16,000 users into Google’s cloud — thereby running the risk of interrupting users’ e-mail, even if just temporarily, in the process. The cost savings were simply too good to pass up. Read more…

written by: Jeffrey Wolf & Bazi Kanani

DENVER – It can list your address, a picture of your home, how much it cost, how long you have lived there, your approximate age and income, your relationship status and more. And it is online for anyone to see.

Spokeo.com takes information from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and from phone books, marketing surveys and real estate listings to create a profile on you without asking. Read more…

Juan Carlos Perez

Google has stopped censoring results in China, acting on a decision it made in January.

On Monday, Google stopped censoring Google Search, Google News and Google Images on Google.cn, according to a blog post from Chief Legal Officer David Drummond.

“Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong,” he wrote. Read more…

The focus of this document is to introduce a new Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS) user to the IOS command line interface (CLI). After reading this document, a new user will understand how to use the IOS CLI to configure and manage an IOS router. For easier reference, Table 1 displays a collection of important terms and acronyms that are used throughout the document. Read more…

Out there, working for you, are agents. Feed them a little port UDP/161,162 and they’ll deliver a dossier on many network devices, in the form of a Management Information Base (MIB).

Just got hired after the last network administrator got promoted to CIO? Grab a free network management tool that has an SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) agent listener (SpiceWorks, Net-SNMP, NetXMS, Nagios, Zenoss and many more), then head over to the local Wi-Fi-enabled coffee establishment. Chances are good you’ll have charts and diagrams to visualize what you’ve gotten yourself into. Read more…

By Eric Lai

It was a startling claim: Like a virtual trail of cookie crumbs, your laptop could be beaming out invisible signals that are attracting intrepid thieves armed with a common $5 gadget.

This alarming scenario comes by way of a press release from security vendor Credant Technologies.

Citing a news report from Jamaica, Credant’s vice president of marketing, Sean Glynn, notes that “low-cost key fob Wi-Fi detectors for under a fiver, and quite sophisticated directional detectors for around the 30 pounds mark … [and could be] used by thieves to detect the presence of an out of sight laptop.”

That’s because newer laptops have a set time — sometimes up to 30 minutes — before they go into sleep mode when the laptop’s lid is closed, Glynn asserts. Read more…

By Jon Brodkin

With 170,000 customers, including every member of the Fortune 100, you might think VMware’s toughest task is stocking enough paper to print up new customer contracts. But the industry’s biggest x86 virtualization vendor is facing a strong challenge from Microsoft, which is enticing IT executives with Hyper-V, an alternative that may not be quite as sophisticated as VMware but is less expensive. Read more…

Lucas Mearian

Hospitals and physicians in the U.S. have until 2015 to deploy comprehensive electronic health records (EHR) and the accompanying technology to meet federal guidelines and qualify for billions of dollars in reimbursements. But some health care experts are concerned that the quality of e-health systems might be at risk because of unrealistic deadlines and confusion about what to do first. Read more…

By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld 

Cisco Systems Inc. today said it will not renew its systems integrator contract with Hewlett-Packard Co., meaning HP it will no longer be a certified reseller or service partner after April 30.

Keith Goodwin, senior vice president of Cisco’s Worldwide Partner Organization, said in a webcast that the changing IT landscape, the evolving role of the network and his company’s competition with system vendor means it can no longer share partner benefits with HP. Read more…