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Comprehensive e-health system could save $7.6 billion a year
Healthcare providers could save up to $7.6 billion a year if it implemented a comprehensive e-health system, according to a study released by consulting firm Booz & Company. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Websense

Essential Information Protection
Successful organizations depend upon their ability to collaborate, communicate, and share information online. This paper explains how Essential Information Protection is designed to help organizations make the most of their IT security investments. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems

Minimize Datacenter Costs with Server Offload
This technical guide helps you learn how to reduce your server costs up to 60%. You'll gain valuable information on how Citrix NetScaler helps reduce datacetner costs with server and infrastructure offload. Read More!

Telecom experts call for rewrite of communications law
The U.S. law governing the telecommunications industry was last updated before Internet use was widespread, and Congress needs to begin the process of updating the law, a group of telecom experts said Friday. Read More

15 Fictional Heroes of Geek
Without being handsome, muscular, or extroverted, these fictional geeks still managed to become heroes. Read More

Deja vu: Nokia sues Apple over patent infringement
Apparently, the wheels on the lawsuit also go round and round. Nokia announced on Friday that it was suing Apple for intellectual property infringement. If you think you've just seen a glitch in the Matrix, don't worry: this isn't the first time the Finland-based company has taken legal action against Cupertino. 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!

Why Data Center Networks Must Fundamentally Change
At Interop I was on a panel hosted by the inimitable Jim Metzler titled, "Why Networks Must Fundamentally Change." Now, just judging the attendance alone I must say that there certainly seemed to be enough interest in this topic to warrant a belief that there must be some pressures on IT and the Networking team that are making them wonder how the network will change. Read More

Millions of dollars of Cisco gear, but unaffiliated with Cisco
I am the CEO of Network Hardware Resale, a big Cisco reseller - but unaffiliated with Cisco. I believe we are politely called "the gray market" within the authorized Cisco world, though I've heard many more unsavory terms used as well. The reality is we often compete with Cisco, but also provide a tremendously valuable service to Cisco and the Cisco brand and here's why. Read More

WWAN routing: a little clarification, please?
The mobile carriers need to clarify their stance on enterprise use of their wireless WANs as primary or backup WAN access links. Read More


WEBCAST: Meraki

Cloud-Managed WiFi
Learn how cloud-managed wireless access points can be self-configured and centrally managed over the web, provide secured access for employees and guests, be scalable for networks of all sizes, and provide a cost savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions. Click here.

Rolling the computerized dice
This week's stock market insanity was astounding. Gibbs worries that the next glitch might be even worse. Read More

Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps: Try them Right Now
Wondering what Microsoft's Office 2010 Web applications will be like, and how they'll stack up against online competitors like Google Docs? Well, you don't have to wait any longer, because anyone can access a technical preview of Microsoft's Office Web apps right now. Read More

Apple WWDC sells out: Hello eBay and Craigslist?
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), being held in June but only announced on April 28, has already sold out, fueled by interest in the iPad and next-generation iPhone. Read More



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