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	Riverbed, Radware report healthy revenue gains The numbers are in for the quarter ended Dec. 31, and a handful of WAN optimization and application delivery vendors had some encouraging gains in revenue and profit. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Consolidate Servers and Storage to Lower Costs Hear from Oracle experts on how consolidating your servers and storage onto a grid running Oracle RAC and Automatic Storage Management can help provide continuous uptime and on-demand scalability at lowest cost. Original Live Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT Register Today In this Issue F5 and VMware enable long distance VMotion Consumers fear consumption-based Internet billing YAO (Yet Another Optimization) 10 best IT jobs right now Facebook sees need for Terabit Ethernet Cisco's Chambers sees economy on the mend Lawmaker pushes for new broadband funding Verizon part of smart grid technology team Cisco adding iPhone app for voice-over-Wi-Fi Start-up offers a kick in the cloud with management technology Broadcom advances 10G Ethernet chips WHITE PAPER: Avocent Four tools for successful power reduction. Discover how you can reduce energy consumption in the data center and on the desktop for significant cost savings. This independent report outlines the best approaches to developing, deploying and managing an effective power management solution, as well as tools for successful power reduction. Read now! F5 and VMware enable long distance VMotion A couple years ago, you were considered the cool kid on the block if you threw out the term 'VMotion.' Today it has become part of our everyday language, and IT administrators consider it one of the best features of server virtualization. Now F5 and VMware are performing VMotions over long distance. Read More Consumers fear consumption-based Internet billing The fact that some broadband ISPs are starting to meter Internet connection usage has a number of our readers convinced that the die is cast for usage-based billing -- and if it comes to pass, consumers absolutely do not want to be billed for unwanted and/or unrequested traffic. This opens a Pandora's box of issues. Read More YAO (Yet Another Optimization) Sure, you've heard of WAN optimization, server optimization, and even storage optimization, but the need for optimization also applies to your management technology -- especially packet-based network, application, and security monitoring and analysis tools. Read More WHITE PAPER: Compuware The Definitive Guide to APM In this Application Performance Management eBook, get hands-on, practical insight into industry best practices for managing your critical applications from an end-to-end perspective. Find out how to manage performance from the distributed front-end of IT operations to the mainframe back-end, while keeping the end-user experience in mind. Read Now. 10 best IT jobs right now Today's hot IT jobs are those that can help satisfy growing demand for technologies such as virtualization, cloud, network security and social computing skills. Here we examine 10 IT jobs and the technology know-how required to land them. Read More Facebook sees need for Terabit Ethernet Facebook's data centers already need 100-Gigabit Ethernet and ideally could use 1-Terabit Ethernet, according to a senior network engineer at the company. Read More Cisco's Chambers sees economy on the mend Cisco's results for its fiscal quarter ended last month indicate the world economy is entering a second phase of recovery, CEO John Chambers said Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipswitch The Value of Network Monitoring Even the most knowledgeable and capable network administrator is only as good as the network information that is visible, and that he or she can manage and act on. Administrators need to know what's happening on their networks at all times, and as this paper explains, that's where network monitoring comes in. Read now. Lawmaker pushes for new broadband funding The U.S. government should spend more on broadband adoption by redirecting money from a fund that subsidizes traditional telephone service to high-speed Internet service, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday. Read More Verizon part of smart grid technology team Verizon Business has signed a deal to provide IT services for the CURRENT Group's brand of smart grid sensors and software. Read More Cisco adding iPhone app for voice-over-Wi-Fi Cisco plans to add voice-over-Wi-Fi capabilities to its existing iPhone app by April, part of a continuing effort to expand its unified communications technology into the mobile space. Read More Start-up offers a kick in the cloud with management technology Start-up Cloudkick launches its software-as-a-service management application to help IT systems administrators get a handle on managing servers in the cloud. Read More Broadcom advances 10G Ethernet chips Broadcom this week unveiled the next generation of its 10 Gigabit Ethernet network interface controller, plus a low-power 10GBase-T PHY. Read More
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