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	How to become a data center top dog Top dogs in the data center come into their positions from all sorts of starting points. Read More WEBCAST: HP Metzler: Virtualization and the Network Manager The networks manager's role has changed significantly over the years. This Webcast highlights survey results of 460 IT pros and their experiences with network management. Learn how network automation is helping to address the unique challenges of both physical and virtual environments. Learn more In this Issue The technology behind the Vancouver Olympic Games AT&T forges 4G rollout with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson IBM's Jeopardy-playing machine can now beat human contestants Technology 'firsts' that made a president's day Social Milky Way space exploration project cranks up world's second fastest "supercomputer" Cisco will be happy to hear that FCoE will drive adapter market The Handset as Collector's Item WHITE PAPER: Ultrium Best Practices for Long-Term Data Retention Disk-based solutions for data protection have opened up new storage options for organizations. The question should not be whether to choose disk or tape, but rather how to leverage both technologies to deploy a cost-effective tiered-storage architecture. This paper discusses the 5 best practices for backup and long-term data protection. Learn More The technology behind the Vancouver Olympic Games The switches, smartphones, telepresence and Web technologies that will keep the Olympic games running smoothly and keep viewers in touch. Read More AT&T forges 4G rollout with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson AT&T took a big step forward in its plan to deploy Long Term Evolution technology by selecting Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent as its LTE equipment vendors. Read More WHITE PAPER: Nimsoft IT Event Correlation and Anaysis The Magic Quadrant covers mature and emerging products that help IT organizations consolidate, analyze and respond to component-level IT infrastructure events, improve their event-to-incident/problem resolution process, and achieve better alignment between events and business-oriented IT services. Read More IBM's Jeopardy-playing machine can now beat human contestants IBM's Jeopardy-playing supercomputer is now capable of beating human Jeopardy contestants on a regular basis, but has a ways to go before it takes on the likes of 74-time champion Ken Jennings. Read More Technology 'firsts' that made a president's day From the first presidential steamboat ride to the introduction of electricity in the White House to Obama's famous Blackberry, our nation's commanders in chief have always enjoyed the privilege of being exposed to technology's cutting edge -- even if they haven't always embraced it. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP WAN Design – Don't Buy More than You Need This Gartner research note examines the methodology organizations should employ when designing a WAN. It offers advice on how to ensure that important applications are networked with sufficient performance and that there is not an "overspend" on less important applications and provides guidance on meeting unique network needs. Read Now. Social Milky Way space exploration project cranks up world's second fastest "supercomputer" What do you get when you strap together the collected computing power of thousands of home computers to map out the Milky Way galaxy? How about a 1 petaflop "supercomputer" that outperforms most of the world's most powerful supercomputers. Read More Cisco will be happy to hear that FCoE will drive adapter market In a development we're sure Cisco will welcome, Dell'Oro Group found that FibreChannel over Ethernet will be a "major growth contributor" to the FibreChannel Host Bus Adapter and Ethernet adapter markets. FCoE will drive growth in these markets due to its value proposition of a single, converged network and storage switching fabric, Dell'Oro found in some recent studies. Read More The Handset as Collector's Item I saw the TV ad for the T-Mobile® myTouchTM 3G - FenderTM Limited Edition handset, featuring Eric Clapton and a special appearance by Buddy Guy, and was immediately impressed. I'm a guitarist myself, in my spare time, which is to say, these days, anyway, very rarely indeed, but I just love the idea of producing limited-edition products as promotional items. Read More
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