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	Stress test: Bloomberg CIO deals with stock market data surge During the stock market's most volatile week in years, the data throughput of Bloomberg LP's trading and financial news network has been put to the test. Here's how the company prepared for the sudden data explosion. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Importance of Permanent Link Testing This white paper is the joint effort of 2 industry leaders of high speed infrastructure cabling and testing, Panduit and Fluke Networks. This technical paper provides a thorough analysis and review of different testing techniques and their associated benefits for high speed permanent links. Learn More Today! In this Issue IT recruiting a casualty of the recession The cure for network downtime is not just technology Xsigo unveils virtual fabric for data centers Clemson IT team embraces call to be entrepreneurial Leveraging virtual I/O technologies to achieve converged infrastructures: The road to the private cloud HotLink unveils systems management platform for VMware users In Texas heat, servers take dip to keep cool As a carrier's partner, Google may shine Pharmaceutical firm retires Microsoft environment for cloud services WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More IT recruiting a casualty of the recession In the face of a lousy economy, hiring freezes and expense cuts, many companies have decimated their recruiting teams. But as IT staffs ramp up efforts to fill open positions and compete for key talent, this lack of recruiting resources could hurt them. Read More The cure for network downtime is not just technology Design and tune your network all you want. But if your company doesn't also have a culture of high availability, your High Availability and Fast Convergence is not complete. Read More Xsigo unveils virtual fabric for data centers New software from Xsigo Systems is designed to link all the servers in a data center virtually, allowing IT managers to reconfigure virtual machines and other resources without carrying out traditional networking tasks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Adding Visibility to WAN Optimization Too often network professionals find themselves stuck in reaction mode, which can prevent them for strategically planning for positive, long-term benefits. Read this report to learn some best practices for understanding and improving the visibility and performance of mission-critical, networked applications. Read now! Clemson IT team embraces call to be entrepreneurial Five years ago Clemson University named James Bottum chief information officer and gave him the mandate to overhaul the school's IT infrastructure and build out a high performance computing environment. The goal: catapult the school into a leading research university and help attract faculty and students. Read More Leveraging virtual I/O technologies to achieve converged infrastructures: The road to the private cloud A private cloud architecture leverages the power of end-to-end virtualization so workloads can be fluidly distributed among a pool of servers, but this ideal cannot be achieved with traditional network infrastructure. Read More HotLink unveils systems management platform for VMware users Systems management platform vendor HotLink Corp. last week unveiled integration software aimed at users of VMware and announced a $10 million venture round. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Achieving Business Resilience Read the white paper to see how IBM® offers a portfolio of flexible and integrated management solutions to help your business adapt seamlessly to its changing goals—and retain its competitive edge. Read Now In Texas heat, servers take dip to keep cool It may take a leap to believe that computers can function in fluid, but at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin that's exactly what's being done. Read 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 Pharmaceutical firm retires Microsoft environment for cloud services Amag Pharmaceuticals, based in Lexington, Mass., has almost eliminated its internal server network, and couldn't be happier about it. That's because the company, with about 240 employees, is now largely riding on cloud services. Read More
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