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	Cisco lands largest TelePresence deal Cisco has landed its largest TelePresence deal to date: Bank of America plans to deploy 200 of the virtual meeting systems globally. The bank currently uses 28 of the systems for employee meetings and training, according to this story by colleague Matt Hamblen of Computerworld. Read More WHITE PAPER: Neustar Best Practices for Monitoring Your Cloud Join Neustar and NetworkWorld to learn how to manage your holistic ecosystem effectively and learn five creative strategies for managing the performance challenges inherent in today's world. View Now In this Issue Trends in Computer Forensics Is Enterprise IT Here to Provide Great Internet Access? Cisco wins approval for Tandberg deal First look into Call Manager 8.0 A breakout year for virtual appliances WHITE PAPER: Virtela Overcoming Single Provider MPLS Limitations Frost & Sullivan review the limitations associated with a single-provider approach to MPLS networks and its impact on the enterprise. They then examine Virtela's Global Service Fabric - a multi-carrier network approach that provides a best-of-breed global MPLS network solution. Read More! Trends in Computer Forensics While at FOSE last week, I attended a very good session called SANS Forensic and Incident Response. The session was led by Rob Lee from Mandiant who moonlights as a computer forensics trainer. Rob identified 7 key trends in computer forensics: 1. Data breach incidents are increasing. More events, more forensics needed. 2. Lack of preparation for when things go bad. Rather than relying on... 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! Is Enterprise IT Here to Provide Great Internet Access? The natives in the field sites at work are restless. The complaints about the "network is slow" have been building recently. One manager at a sales office sent an e-mail with a one-liner I'll have to use again someday: "IT is tripping over quarters to pick up dimes". Ha! Good one. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. Cisco wins approval for Tandberg deal Cisco expects the Tandberg deal to close within weeks, now that the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Union have blessed the $3.4 billion acquisition. Read More First look into Call Manager 8.0 Call Manger 8.0 has been announced and will begin shipping in April 2010; here are some new features that I can see an immediate benefit in: It can be virtualized on top of VMware ESXi 4.0 running on Cisco's UCS. Not every hypervisor, not every version of VMware and not on every hardware. The official reason is that it will be impossible to support all hardware or hypervisors, next thing you know someone... Read More A breakout year for virtual appliances In a recent newsletter we declared that 2010 will be a breakout year for the deployment of network and application optimization. Read More
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