Network World: The four most trendy Linux developments
"In the deafening noise surrounding Linux, four topics stand out: the duel for the desktop, 3-D desktop tools, isolated virtual environments (also known as containerization or virtualization), and mobile Linux devices."

IT Service Management - Practical Insights: Assuring the “Service” in Service Management – Part 2
"The Service Level Management process manager will provide best practices, in the form of process workflow definitions, for the following..."

Network World: Naïve users who hog (or bring down) the network
"We asked the respondents to identify the most unusual or outrageous network misuse that they had discovered on their network and we got quite a set of responses."

SearchNetworking: Five wireless myths debunked
"Cisco, along with Forrester Research, recently issued a report calling most wireless LAN fears mere myths, and a campus-wide, all-wireless deployment appears to prove that theory." (Registration required.)

ZDNet/George Ou: The truth about the IPv6 transition
"The primary benefit of going to IPv6, if we get past all the IPv6 hype, is that it practically offers a limitless supply of IP addresses which leads some to think that the need for NAT would end. But is ending the use of NAT really that important?"

Data Center Central: The Rising Specter of Virtual Server Sprawl
"Industry awareness of virtual server sprawl is increasing. Actually, we suspect that most IT managers have known all along that replacing physical servers with virtual ones was merely swapping one problem for another. But the power and space benefits of virtualization justified its development, even if some of the stickier details still had to be worked out."