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	Arista again looks to buck Cisco, others in data center Arista Networks this week has rolled out four switches and enhanced software designed to address the scalability, resilience and density requirements of cloud computing. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Customer Lifetime Value for IT With technology underpinning much of the customer experience, IT and marketing must adopt new technologies to innovate and grow revenues. Watch the video to learn how IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics enables marketers while reducing the burden on IT. View Now In this Issue Great arguments: Cisco vs. HP vs. IBM vs. Dell Medical research group skips 40G, makes 'right move' to 100G Ethernet DARPA calls for powerful, secure wireless system to link space satellites Survey: IT certifications lead to jobs, higher pay It's Time To Child-Proof Our Networks Stanton: Jobs wanted own network with unlicensed spectrum IBM: Analytics, mobile, cloud, social applications will drive future IT development Researchers find new way to hide messages in VoIP WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems WAN Optimization Strategies The benefits of IT consolidation have come with a downside – dramatic bandwidth and application performance issues. Making WAN Optimization a priority will result in dramatic gains in bandwidth and performance today, and ensure an optimized network for tomorrow. This paper defines how to defend against the trends that overwhelm the WAN. Read now! Great arguments: Cisco vs. HP vs. IBM vs. Dell Cisco used to be a networking company, pure and simple. It built its dominance and influence on capturing a dominant market position in routers and switches, both in the enterprise and in service provider networks. Read More Medical research group skips 40G, makes 'right move' to 100G Ethernet Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a nonprofit medical research organization, has implemented a 100G Ethernet network to boost bandwidth for advanced data analysis. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now DARPA calls for powerful, secure wireless system to link space satellites Getting a series of small satellites to communicate and act as one unit in space while taking commands from Earth-bound command centers is a gargantuan wireless task. But the researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are looking for technology that does just that. Read More Survey: IT certifications lead to jobs, higher pay In this survey of 700 IT professionals, most say certifications have led to raises and better jobs, busting the myth that certs are nothing but a scam. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Bloor Report: Sybase® IQ 15.3 In Detail Sybase® IQ is well positioned to compete with traditional and appliance vendors. While it has different advantages in dif¬ferent environments, it merits careful review by organisations investigating data warehousing, high-speed analytics and business intelligence options. Read now. It's Time To Child-Proof Our Networks As the old security cliche goes, "people are the weakest link in the security chain." ESG tested this theory in its recently-published research report, "U.S. Advanced Persistent Threat Analysis." http://www.enterprisestrategygroup.com/2011/11/apt/?utm_source=Homepage&... According to the security professionals surveyed for this report, non-IT employees' security skills remain poor: * 49% of respondents... Read More Stanton: Jobs wanted own network with unlicensed spectrum Steve Jobs initially hoped to create his own network with the unlicensed spectrum that Wi-Fi uses rather than work with the mobile operators, said wireless industry legend John Stanton. Read More IBM: Analytics, mobile, cloud, social applications will drive future IT development It's clear by the increasing use of analytics software that companies are struggling to get their hands around the huge amounts of data it takes to run a successful business but developing social, mobile, and cloud computing other applications are also driving the need for new technical skills. Read More Researchers find new way to hide messages in VoIP Researchers have devised a new scheme for hiding secret data within VoIP packets, making it possible to carry on legitimate voice conversations while stolen data piggybacks on the call undetected, making its way to thieves on the outside. Read More
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