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	WAN optimization hardware vs. WAN optimization services The two best things about WAN optimization are that it practically guarantees better response times for applications while at the same time either reducing the need for WAN bandwidth or at least staving off for a while the need to boost it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Intel Boost virtualization w/ HP & Intel 10GbE This paper describes why the Intel® Ethernet X520 SFP+ Direct Attach (DA) Server Adapter for HP ProLiant Rack and Tower servers is one of the most flexible and scalable Ethernet adapters for today's demanding data center environments. Click to continue In this Issue OpenFlow vs. programmable ASICs The 33 hottest tech arguments Corporate-owned vs. employee-owned mobile devices Cisco study finds young workers want access, not money 20 best browser apps of 2011 Employees refusing to use clunky enterprise software Are you ready for networking in the cloud? US energy agency demos blazingly fast network HTML5 WebSocket to hasten Web app comms WHITE PAPER: PhoneFactor Phones Become the Leading Multi-Factor Authentication Device According to a leading analyst firm phone-based authentication will comprise 61% of the multi-factor authentication market by the year 2014. This paper will address the key drivers for this market shift away from security tokens and includes real-world case studies from organizations that have made the move to phone-based authentication. Read now OpenFlow vs. programmable ASICs Can you program a network of multivendor switches and routers, all running different operating systems, command line interfaces and configuration routines, to work in concert when it comes to managing flows? Read More The 33 hottest tech arguments Network World and IDG News Service have assembled this collection of primers examining today's most explosive and intriguing networking and IT issues, from vendor rivalries to product battles to technology trends. Read More Corporate-owned vs. employee-owned mobile devices If an employee walked into work one day clutching his shiny new iPhone, iPad, Android or other mobile smartphone or tablet, wanting to use it for official corporate business, would you say yes? 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 Cisco study finds young workers want access, not money Forget paying our best and brightest to work for your company. Give them what they really want: a mobile device with Internet access. Read More 20 best browser apps of 2011 Whether you want to stay on top of your to-do list, find out who is tracking you online or sling a few birds at pesky pigs, here are 20 apps that are well worth your time. Read More Employees refusing to use clunky enterprise software Today's tech-savvy workers won't use IT's desk-bound enterprise applications. They want mobile access to corporate data via intuitive interfaces. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Optimizing Information with a Tiered Storage Architecture Oracle's approach to the use of tiered storage provides a solution that optimizes performance, cost and capacity across the breadth of storage media available today. Learn more. Are you ready for networking in the cloud? The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications. Read More US energy agency demos blazingly fast network The U.S. Department of Energy will debut in November one of the fastest networks ever built: a 100Gbps Ethernet network that will enable researchers to create more complex, real-world simulations in climate change, particle physics, astronomy and other scientific fields. Read More HTML5 WebSocket to hasten Web app comms Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of this networking overhead, speeding responsiveness in Web applications, argued a Web app expert. Read More
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