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	Riverbed teams with Akamai to boost SaaS performance Anyone who has endured the painful wait of a slow-loading application is familiar with the frustration and lost productivity that follows. That's the problem that motivated Riverbed and Akamai to join forces for a new SaaS acceleration offering, with the objective of resolving SaaS application performance issues that were previously untouchable. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 8 Reasons Why Citrix NetScaler Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. Shift up to the Cloud. Download 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Learn More In this Issue Windows 8: What you need to get started BYOD: IT claims security fears but blocks Angry Birds instead Mobile leaders facing network complexity look to Bruce Lee Former Packeteer head has new networking startup Are community cloud services the next hot thing? 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