The old method of advertising is interactive marketing. The term is misleading. Most people think it means that there is some type of interaction on the part of the person advertised to, and there is. But, it is not conversational. Instead, the advertiser wants you to interact with their campaign in a specific set of steps. Following the call to action and visiting a website for instance. It's the push to make you do something. Live this image. Buy this now.

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With the rise of new, ultra-small netbook computers, Linux has a chance to make its case to consumers. Windows Vista usually won't fit on netbooks, XP already has one foot in the grave, and many netbook buyers may give Linux serious consideration when choosing what OS they want pre-installed. Microsoft says Windows 7 will target netbooks, but until that OS is released, the ball's in Linux's court.

Microsoft learned valuable lessons from the Windows Vista experience, even though the company spent much of 2008 pretending that nothing was wrong with it and that the market hadn't given it a fair shake.

The world's first Open Storage appliances, the Sun Storage 7000 family features three products in its initial release: Sun Storage 7110, 7210 and 7410 - each is the first in a new and broad family of Unified Storage Systems. In conjunction with today's launch, Sun also announced a new Open Storage Partner Specialty Program and a series of new professional services to help customers take advantage of Open Storage technologies.

Microsoft showed off new Windows 7 innovations at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week. The focus was how the upcoming version of Microsoft's flagship product will make it easier for hardware partners to create new experiences for Windows PC customers.

Windows senior vice presidents Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan rallied hardware partners, encouraging them to begin testing their current products and building new products on the application programming interface (API).

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Top Layer Security, a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), today announced that Steve Gates, director of North American sales engineering, will discuss the next generation of network security threats and how organizations can protect themselves from the evolving threat landscape at the Dallas Tech-Security Conference, taking place November 5, 2008 in Dallas, TX.

TriGeo Network Security, the leading provider of security information and event management (SIEM) technology for midmarket enterprises, is aggressively expanding its international presence to meet increasing demand for its Security Information Manager (SIM) solution. The company's strategic partnership with Phoenix Datacom, a leading supplier of network performance and security solutions in the UK and Ireland, provides easy access to the industry's only real-time log management and compliance solution that can actively defend the network.

TippingPoint, a leader in intrusion prevention systems (IPS), will host the Webinar "Intrusion Prevention Scorecard: How to Meet the Demands of a New Security Reality" on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. EST. Participants from TippingPoint and Infonetics Research will discuss the results of a recent Infonetics survey that looks at how security professionals are deciding upon and deploying Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS).

Network Security expert, Omar Santos presents material from his latest book, End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth --Best practices for assessing and improving network defenses and responding to security incidents.

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Network Security expert, Omar Santos presents material from his latest book, End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth --Best practices for assessing and improving network defenses and responding to security incidents.

Video used for internal training at Cisco. The basics of Security. Shot a few years ago but still pretty relevant.

Solera Networks allows users to monitor a network through DS appliances, which work as traffic recorders, capturing and storing data including security, management and forensics, providing a record of activity.

It also includes Solera DeepSee, the first search engine for data-in motion, that provides both IT personnel and business executives the ability to search, locate, and reconstruct specific network traffic in an intuitive, web-like search format.
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