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	Moves afoot in U.S., elsewhere to end PSTN copper lifeline In what may be a preview of what will happen in the United States, the Australian telecommunications giant Telstra late last month released its plan to bring a close to the old telephone world. Telstra announced it will decommission its copper customer access network and stop offering fixed line telephone service to retail customers after July 1, 2018. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches How to make a ''firewall sandwich''. Read now. Learn More! 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Beyond WAN Optimization Large organizations have been centralizing IT resources for at least 10 years now, moving systems, applications, and services from remote office/branch office (ROBO) locations to central data centers. Of course, this means that remote users are accessing applications and files over WANs rather than high-speed LANs. Given this, how can IT managers maintain reasonable performance and SLAs? Read More 5 surprising IT skills that hiring managers want now Tech careers site Dice.com identified five up-and-coming IT skills based on searches of its resume database. At the top of the list: iRise. Read More Barracuda doubles capacity of cloud storage, retains pricing Barracuda Networks announced it has doubled the amount of cloud storage capacity available to customers of its backup service, but it kept the price at $50 per month. 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