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	F5 Networks gunning for even more data center control Cisco owns networking, right? Not when it comes to the rapidly growing Layer 4-7 switching market. There, F5 Networks has managed to garner nearly 50% market share, while Cisco's share has actually declined. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix XenServer Download Free XenServer XenServer is the only enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform you don't have to pay for. With live migration, centralized multi-server management, and shared storage support, you can't afford not to try it! Click to continue In this Issue FCoE: From fee to free Avoiding the pitfalls when transitioning to IPv6 Cisco gears up for expected flood of mobile data Toward a gigabit Wi-Fi nirvana: 802.11ac and 802.11ad Survey says: Bad alignments hamper app management Verizon's threat to throttle speeds of heavy data users could be empty ITU wants government help to avoid mobile bottleneck SonicWall introduces SuperMassive next-gen firewalls with enough oomph for data centers A competency-based maturity model to reduce ITIL adoption risks New services enforce security in the public cloud The testing phase of application performance engineering WHITE PAPER: Brocade 6 Questions to Ask about Virtual Data Centers Organizations can control risk and reduce costs by choosing a cost-effective, phased network architecture upgrade that enables new levels of application flexibility and business agility. Discover how they accomplish this in this informative whitepaper. Read now! FCoE: From fee to free With demand for FCoE more sluggish than vendors had hoped, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and adapter makers are making it available for free. Read More Avoiding the pitfalls when transitioning to IPv6 Sometime this year the world will run out of Internet addresses doled out under the old-style IPv4 protocol, and while the 128 bit addresses in IPv6 will allow for essentially an unlimited number of addresses, the upgrade path is a tricky one. Read More Cisco gears up for expected flood of mobile data Cisco Systems will make a three-pronged attack at Mobile World Congress this week on what it sees as an impending flood of mobile data, especially video, by extending its current product lines with tools for better content delivery. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Four keys to Improving Quality This white paper examines the systems engineering life cycle and discusses four keys for improving quality across the systems engineering "V" to help A&D companies deliver quality on time while containing costs more effectively. Read Now Toward a gigabit Wi-Fi nirvana: 802.11ac and 802.11ad Today's existing state-of-the art wireless LAN can achieve 300 Mbps using 802.11n with two spatial streams. Future developments will deliver three- and four-stream speeds of up to 600 Mbps. But the 802.11 working group has set its sights on a more ambitious milestone: 1 Gbps throughput. Read More Survey says: Bad alignments hamper app management A recently completed NetForecast/Network World survey of application performance management (APM) practices has uncovered serious gaps between the performance attributes IT managers cite as important to measure, and those they actually do measure. Read More Verizon's threat to throttle speeds of heavy data users could be empty Verizon likely won't implement a plan to throttle the data speeds of the heaviest users on its network, an executive at Flash Networks said today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read More WHITE PAPER: St. Bernard Software Compare Web Filters, Enter to win an iPad View this demo of iPrism Web Filter and learn why throughput speeds of up to 100+ Mbps, anti-virus protection, and seamless Active Directory/Terminal Services integration and reporting included at no charge has made iPrism the appliance-based choice for organizations of all sizes. Learn More ITU wants government help to avoid mobile bottleneck Whitespace devices, LTE, femtocells, automatic Wi-Fi handover, optimized backhaul networks: wireless operators are already deploying a wide range of techniques to speed the flow of data to our smartphones, and equipment manufacturers are demonstrating many more at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. Read More SonicWall introduces SuperMassive next-gen firewalls with enough oomph for data centers SonicWall is announcing at the RSA conference this week four next-generation firewalls designed with enough speed for deployment in data centers. Read More A competency-based maturity model to reduce ITIL adoption risks As large enterprises search for solutions to get the most out of their outsourcing vendors, many are turning to operational frameworks like ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) to improve the effectiveness of IT service delivery. Read More New services enforce security in the public cloud In Gartner's 2011 CIO Agenda survey, 43% of CIOs say that within four years they expect to have the majority of their IT running in the cloud or on SaaS technologies. Before they can put their applications in the cloud, they need to address the issues of security and compliance. Traditional tools don't migrate well to the public cloud. Now there are new services from startup CloudPassage that get to the heart of security on replicated virtual servers. Read More The testing phase of application performance engineering In this newsletter we'll discuss how establishing application performance objectives impacts application testing. Read More
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