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	Cisco defends its Borderless Cisco latest Borderless Networks announcement, which included some new low-priced stackable switches, is viewed by some analysts as more of a defensive than offensive move by the company. The price points and modular uplink upgrade capabilities are seen by Oppenheimer & Co. as a response to HP and Juniper, rather than a capability the two competitors would have to respond to. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. The Full Story on WAAS Cost Saving Benefits Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) can deliver a very favorable ROI within 11 months says Forrester Consulting in this informative report. WAAS lets you effectively choose how to deploy applications, store data and provision infrastructure services between branch and data center locations. Learn More In this Issue Latency in the Data Center Matters Network Security Renaissance Cisco defending its turf on 3 fronts as markets rebound Firms fail to assess effect virtualisation has on networks 2010 – The year of network and application optimization Friday Foray: Where I identify myself and what I stand for professionally. 10 hot tools for the next-generation data center WHITE PAPER: Websense Websense Security Labs State of Internet Security 2H09 Do you know just how adept Web adversaries have become in using the Internet to spread malware in their attacks? Understand where the true threats lie with this report which summarizes the significant findings of Websense researchers using the ThreatSeeker™ Network during the six-month period ending December 2009. Learn More Latency in the Data Center Matters It's been an interesting week at work. Make that two weeks. For the last couple of weeks, we have been working on a throughput performance issue between a very expensive Fujitsu M8000 server and network storage over our 10GbE network. The M8000 was accessing storage via NFS over TCP. Cutting to the end of the story, it wasn't (well, at this point, I should say it "isn't") a network issue, despite... Read More Network Security Renaissance ESG Research indicates that network security spending will be a focus area for 2010. Nearly half (48%) of midsized (i.e. less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) will invest in network security technologies like firewalls, IDS/IPS, gateways, and threat management solutions. Yes, all of these technologies are important components of a defense-in-depth security architecture... Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! Cisco defending its turf on 3 fronts as markets rebound Cisco is defending its turf on three fronts as spending picks up coming out of the recession. Read More Firms fail to assess effect virtualisation has on networks Companies are failing to assess the impact virtualisation has on their networks says Computacenter Read More WHITE PAPER: Actuate Selecting the Right Reporting Technology Today, dynamic reports have emerged as the most visual, widely used and impactful part of enterprise applications. In order to increase the usability and value of applications, ISVs must embed a technology into their products to add rich, interactive, Web 2.0 reporting and analytics to attract and retain customers. Learn more! 2010 – The year of network and application optimization Each year for most of the last decade we have heard that this is the year of VoIP. The reality is that in our industry, something as broad-based and complex as the adoption of VoIP does not happen in a year. That being said, it can take a big step forward in a year. With that definition in mind, we think that this is the year of network and application optimization – the year that it takes a big step forward. Read More Friday Foray: Where I identify myself and what I stand for professionally. (Part 1 of 2) Read More 10 hot tools for the next-generation data center Enterprise data centers are notoriously complex, costly and energy inefficient, which leaves plenty of opportunity for innovative vendors to introduce products that ease the pain of data center managers. Read More
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