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	Can Cisco Still Compete In the Public Sector and Other Cash-Strapped Industries? Cisco's financial announcement last week was welcome news for financial markets in a state of turmoil. Cisco shares climbed 16% on Thursday when the company reported positive results and provided indications that its cost-cutting measures are starting to deliver results. Read More WEBCAST: GFI Software GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform. View now In this Issue Early OpenFlow user details 'exciting' benefits The Cure for Network Downtime is Not Just Technology As a carrier's partner, Google may shine 10 cloud management companies to watch Outsourced and fired, IT workers fight back Your rude co-worker may hurt you outside the workplace too 9 tech superstars as comic book characters WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Gartner 2011 Planning Guide: Network and Telecom Read the Gartner Research Note, "2011 Planning Guide: Network and Telecom," and discover how to keep up with the most important networking trends for 2011. Includes practical guidance to build an optimized data center, the best network infrastructure and true "anywhere Enterprise" capabilities. Get your report -- compliments of Citrix. Learn more Early OpenFlow user details 'exciting' benefits OpenFlow promises to make networking more programmable, and one early user is reaping the initial benefits. Read More The Cure for Network Downtime is Not Just Technology You just came back from CiscoLive and went to some classes (maybe even some of mine) and now you want to run home and start figuring out the alphabet soup of choices and decisions that is High Availability (HA) and Fast Convergence (FC) - NSR, NSF, GR, BFD, SSO... (the acronyms go on and on) Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Tips to Investigate App Performance Issues Check out this video as "Jack," the network manager, deals with a barrage of slow network complaints from users throughout the company. See how Riverbed Cascade collects flow records from routers, switches and other devices and correlates them with packet inspection to get full application identification at Layer 7. Learn more! As a carrier's partner, Google may shine Google's planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility will force the search giant into a whole new set of relationships with mobile operators, which could benefit the carriers but also create tension. Read More 10 cloud management companies to watch Managing the cloud is a tricky endeavor. Here are 10 tools and services that can help Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Arrival of Cloud Thinking Much is being made of the "the cloud." The money it will save. The agility it will bring to computing. What is less obvious is how IT departments are actively employing cloud services today. How they are reacting to both public and private cloud initiatives. What it will mean over the next couple of years for IT decision makers and implementers. Learn More Outsourced and fired, IT workers fight back On the day they were fired early last year, about 40 IT employees at Molina Healthcare Inc. had been gathered in a conference room for what they were told would be a planning meeting. At the same time, laptop computers were being collected from the assembled workers' desks. Read More Your rude co-worker may hurt you outside the workplace too The stress created by rude co-workers can be so intense that, at the end of the day, it is taken home by the worker and can damage the well-being of the worker's family. That was the main conclusion of a Baylor University study of 190 workers and their partners that looked at how a co-worker's rudeness can impact relationships beyond the workplace. Read More 9 tech superstars as comic book characters Ever wonder what superpowers Steve Jobs or Bill Gates would have in a comic book? Check out our slideshow of what-if tech superheroes (and supervillains). Read More
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