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	Riverbed releases WAN cloud storage gateway appliances Riverbed today announced three new WAN optimization appliances targeted at backing data up to the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks 10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do As the leader and pioneer of the next-generation firewall category, Palo Alto Networks would like to share what we have learned from securing over 3,500 enterprise networks in the past few years. Download our guide that depicts the top 10 requirements you should demand in your next firewall purchase. Read now! In this Issue No news is good news on World IPv6 Day Battle looms over securing virtualized systems How to improve the smartphone experience inside the enterprise Extreme automation: FedEx Ground hubs speed deliveries Enterasys wants you to friend and Tweet with your switches and routers Panic time quiz: How prepared are you for IPv6? How to deal with 3 big corporate security concerns NASA plan takes the Internet into space and beyond Business video: Get ready for the surge HP sets $2B in financing to speed cloud adoption WHITE PAPER: Avaya Single Vendor Network: Myth or Reality Gartner conducted an analysis of hundreds of clients and found that introducing a second vendor into the network infrastructure has a significant impact on operational costs Read Now No news is good news on World IPv6 Day World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour trial of next-generation Internet services, is going as smoothly as participating websites had hoped, sparking comparisons to the dawn of the new millennium passing without any Y2K-related incidents. Read More Battle looms over securing virtualized systems There's growing consensus that traditional approaches to network security -- the firewall and intrusion-prevention appliances, the host-based antivirus software -- simply do not work well in virtualized environments for which they were never designed. Read More How to improve the smartphone experience inside the enterprise Every day in large and small offices across America, business workers ignore the PC or desk phone and grab their smartphones for convenient voice, email and Internet access. But delivering high quality cellular service inside office buildings is a challenge for wireless carriers, especially for high-speed data which requires a particularly strong signal. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Identity-Aware Networking Download this whitepaper today discover how IT can integrate identity and networking, enabling new business processes and easing regulatory compliance while improving security. Read now! Extreme automation: FedEx Ground hubs speed deliveries To someone standing outside the FedEx Ground distribution hub in Hagerstown, Md., the package delivery business appears deceptively simple. Read More Enterasys wants you to friend and Tweet with your switches and routers Enterasys this week rolled out software that allows network admins to access its management system via social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Salesforce.com's Chatter. Read More Panic time quiz: How prepared are you for IPv6? With IPv4 addresses projected to dry up this year, it's inevitable that IPv6 adoption will accelerate. Here are a few questions that can help determine how much or how little you know about IPv6 and whether you ought to spend more time studying it. Keep track of how many right you get and find out your ranking at the end. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall for Dummies eBook This book provides an in-depth overview of next-generation firewalls. It examines the evolution of network security, the rise of Enterprise 2.0 applications and their associated threats, the shortcomings of traditional firewalls, and the advanced capabilities found in next-generation firewalls. Read now! How to deal with 3 big corporate security concerns Virtualization, mobility and social networking were flagged as posing most security risk to businesses, partly because there is no accepted set of best practices yet to protect them, IT Roadmap attendees were told. Read More NASA plan takes the Internet into space and beyond NASA this week said it was looking to build an ambitious Internet-like network that will support solar system-wide communication and navigation services. Read More Business video: Get ready for the surge Video traffic is expected to grow from 50% of all Internet traffic today to 90% by 2013. In volume that will be equal to transmitting the equivalent of 10 billion DVDs across the network every month. Read More HP sets $2B in financing to speed cloud adoption Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker announced at a user conference in Las Vegas that the company is setting aside $2 billion to help customers buy its cloud systems. Read More
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