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	Management vendors fail to measure "real" user experience We have a problem Houston. IT managers want to measure their users' real experience, but the vendor-supplied tools at their disposal do not spit out the measurements they need. Here's why we make this heretical statement. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Fluke Networks Portable Network Tools - Selection Guide Trying to solve a specific network problem? Not sure which tool can help? Fluke Networks removes the guesswork with its new interactive tool selection guide. Learn how to troubleshoot common wired or wireless network issues. View our online selection guide and enter to win one of seven network tools! In this Issue Strengthening your core with network infrastructure upgrades Is your company at risk of an IPv6 brain drain? IPv6 on home routers and DSL/cable modems: FAIL Two-man team directs Juniper's innovation T1 reflections AT&T can't take it personally Verizon: We have plenty of IPv4 addresses Wells Fargo says no to personal smartphones and tablets, period Cross-ocean clouds are gaining IT favor WHITE PAPER: Polycom Maximizing ROI with the Microsoft-Polycom UC Solution Read how Microsoft and Polycom's partnership offers customers an end-to-end, fully interoperable unified communications (UC) solution that combines real-time instant messaging, voice, video, and data to lower business costs, improve productivity, and more. Read More Strengthening your core with network infrastructure upgrades Many organizations are cautious when investing in anything new -- especially technology. Familiarity often leads companies to stick with what they know or have always used. Holding on to the past, however, can be costly. Stepping out of your comfort zone is crucial if you want your IT department, and your organization as a whole, to stay competitive in today's business world. Read More Is your company at risk of an IPv6 brain drain? Timothy Winters, senior manager at the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory, gets calls every week from headhunters looking to hire network engineers, network architects and software developers with experience in IPv6, the looming upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More IPv6 on home routers and DSL/cable modems: FAIL When it comes to IPv6 support, consumer home networking gear lags far behind other devices, like enterprise equipment and PC operating systems. Most devices certified as IPv6-compliant by the IPv6 Forum are full of implementation bugs, experts say. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Why Change Schedulers? Recent year's attempts to retrofit older solutions to meet today's challenges are costing companies millions, and not delivering the desired results. View this webinar to find out how companies reduce their costs by switching to BMC CONTROL-M. Watch Now! Two-man team directs Juniper's innovation To the storied names of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, add Kevin Johnson and Pradeep Sindhu. Read More T1 reflections The past 30 or so years as our world has transformed from one where data rides over a voice infrastructure to one where voice fits into the cracks of a data infrastructure. A major -- if not THE major -- inflection point in this transition came with the availability in the U.S. of "T-1" services to the enterprise. Read More AT&T can't take it personally Gibbs discusses how AT&T wanted to have their corporate cake and eat it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Clearing the Confusion About Fabric-Based Infrastructure A fabric-based computing architecture can support virtualization and cloud computing. Distinguishing between fabric-based computers and fabric-based data centers is critical to select the best technologies and products. Read this paper to learn more. Read now! Verizon: We have plenty of IPv4 addresses Verizon Business says it has enough IP addresses using the current version of the Internet Protocol, known as IPv4, to support its U.S. business and government customers as they transition to the next-generation standard, IPv6. Read More Wells Fargo says no to personal smartphones and tablets, period Wells Fargo imposes strict regulations on employee-owned mobile devices and social networking sites because of security risks. Read More Cross-ocean clouds are gaining IT favor Concerns about latency and questions about legal and regulatory issues aren't stopping CIOs from moving key systems to the cloud, even if it means using applications that are hosted in data centers located overseas. Read More
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