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	Cisco upgrades WAN optimizers Cisco is coming out with six new WAN optimization appliances that upgrade its current line of Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) gear ranging from branch office to data center. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell and Intel Virtualization: Progress and Opportunity Standardizing on the latest server hardware, such as 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers featuring Intel processors, can help businesses overcome many of the challenges that keep them from capitalizing on virtualization's capabilities. Read now. In this Issue The new Cisco WAAS Appliances, a game changer? A10 boosts application delivery controllers Microsoft .Net skills in demand, job site reports How CIOs spend their time Cloud-based backup and disaster recovery services yield peace of mind Who's who in IPv6: the companies and people leading the way Choosing the right APM vendor(s) for your cloud environment Feds expand data center closing goal 2012 IT budgets, salaries on the rise, survey says RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: WildPackets See the Entire Network: Past & Present SNMP. Flow-based network statistics. Both deliver incomplete views of what's in your network. Introducing WatchPoint - a network monitoring for analysis solution that shows real-time problems and tells you why there's a problem. Join us October 12 for live webinar and learn how WatchPoint creates one view to rule them all. No wizardry required. Click to continue The new Cisco WAAS Appliances, a game changer? Everyone has been waiting to see my reaction to the next generation Cisco WAAS appliances that were announced at Interop. Could these be the game changers that Cisco needs to compete with Riverbed and also stop losing deals to Blue Coat and Certeon? Well, they are really pretty boxes, they have a lot of memory and a very big WAN card. But they are not what the doctor called for, sorry Cisco. Read More A10 boosts application delivery controllers A10 Networks is upgrading its application delivery controllers (ADC) with three new hardware platforms it says are faster and more energy efficient. Read More Microsoft .Net skills in demand, job site reports There's a shortage of .Net talent in every area of the U.S., says Dice.com. Tech professionals who regularly develop for the Microsoft framework earn about $83,000 a year, the IT jobs specialist reports. Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon, Exinda & Cisco Special Digital Edition: Wan Optimization This Network World Spotlight Digital Edition, prepared by Network World editors, provides an in-depth look at the latest WAN optimization developments. Read now How CIOs spend their time CIOs today spend a lot more time managing relationships than diving into technical work. In fact, non-technical work consumes 77% of CIOs' time, according to new survey data from the Society for Information Management (SIM). Read More Cloud-based backup and disaster recovery services yield peace of mind Data backup and disaster recovery are best practices for every business, regardless of size. Cloud services are making it easier to attain professional-level backup and DR services at a reasonable cost with little effort or expertise on the customer's part. Read More Who's who in IPv6: the companies and people leading the way IPv6 is on the minds of every network professional these days, and rightly so. While some vendors and service providers are woefully behind, others are leading the charge. We asked well-known IPv6 expert Ed Horley to name these leaders. Horley is co-chairman of the California IPv6 Task Force, is involved in the North American IPv6 Task Force, and earns his living as principal solutions architect at Groupware Technology in Campbell, Calif. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Strategy Guide to Converged Infrastructure in K-12 Education The lack of cohesive and capable infrastructure could prevent schools from taking advantage of some of the biggest cost-saving trends of the decade: virtualization and cloud computing. Learn more Choosing the right APM vendor(s) for your cloud environment As is the fashion, application performance management vendors are now speaking "cloud." But each tool is unique, and it is challenging to see the big picture of how the current crop of APM tools fits into the often complex cloud environment. So, to identify the right application performance measurement toolkit for different situations, we have taken a stab at placing APM vendor tools into the cloud services "geography" framework we introduced in our last posting. Read More Feds expand data center closing goal About 30% of the federal government's IT spending is being used to support data center infrastructure, and the U.S. hopes to save billions down the road as it moves to consolidate its data centers. Read More 2012 IT budgets, salaries on the rise, survey says IT budgets, salaries and staff turnover rates have returned to pre-recessionary levels, according to a new survey conducted by the Society of Information Management (SIM) that indicates increasing optimism among CIOs and IT executives nationwide. Read More
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