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	AppFirst offers basic server monitoring service for free Year-old start-up company AppFirst is trying to shake up the way IT administrators think about not only application performance management but also server monitoring in general. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap 2011 IT Roadmap is all new for 2011! Maximize your learning in one day: IT Roadmap visits 7 cities in 2011 with a more streamlined agenda; more high-priority IT topics and trends; top industry analysts; experienced end users and leading technology providers. It's one day packed with everything you need to know to make the best IT decisions for your enterprise for the year ahead. Visit the new ITR website In this Issue Enterasys rolls out data center manager Is there free stuff for online security? Yes! Cisco, Juniper play years of leapfrog in the Internet core Best practices for SIEM deployments Cisco announces virtual desktops for video collaboration IPv6 and the feds: Leadership or folly? Brocade data center switches take on Cisco, Juniper Novell upgrades Zenworks PC management features Data analytics requirements push database tech to limits WHITE PAPER: CA Application Delivery 2.0 Handbook This comprehensive handbook offers guidance on ensuring application delivery with a systematic approach. Read More Enterasys rolls out data center manager Enterasys Networks this week is unveiling a management system designed to provide visibility, automation and control over physical and virtual data center resources. Read More Is there free stuff for online security? Yes! Security software is a real free-for-all these days. Read More Cisco, Juniper play years of leapfrog in the Internet core Juniper and Cisco have been playing "can you top this" in Internet router technology for a decade. Cisco just announced its "forever change the Internet" CRS-3 back in February. Now it's Juniper's turn with the T4000. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire The Benefits of Continuous Compliance This paper covers key strategies for PCI DSS compliance and examines reasonable risk management, automating compliance, and compliance challenges in a virtualized environment. Read Now. Best practices for SIEM deployments The 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report published by the Verizon Business RISK Team has a shocking statistic about the effectiveness of log analysis in helping organizations discover that they've been a victim of a security breach. According to Verizon, logs are available in nearly 90% of the breaches they've investigated, but effective in discovering the breach less than 5% of the time. Read More Cisco announces virtual desktops for video collaboration Cisco today unveiled two virtual desktop devices, more efficient virtualization software and more affordable videoconferencing endpoints, building on its line of video collaboration tools and capabilities for companies. Read More IPv6 and the feds: Leadership or folly? There's no question that the move from IPv4 to IPv6 is a necessary move over the next several years. And an oft-quoted milestone for the adoption is the use of IPv6 by the federal government. However, we thought it would be interesting to step back from this for a moment and look at whether and how this move could affect the industry.   Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks The ROI of Application Delivery Controllers How modern offload technologies in Application Delivery Controllers can drastically reduce expenses in traditional and virtualized architectures, with a fast ROI. Read now! Brocade data center switches take on Cisco, Juniper Brocade this week will introduce switches that will let users build a flat, multipath network for virtualized data center environments. Read More Novell upgrades Zenworks PC management features Novell has released a new version of its Zenworks PC management suite, consolidating separate applications through a new unified administrative console, and adding a range of features including awareness of the end user's identity and location. Read More Data analytics requirements push database tech to limits Emerging business analytics needs are exposing limitations in traditional database management technologies and fueling the growth of highly specialized analytics platforms, according to a report by two leading industry analysts. Read More
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