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	Cisco, Extreme have strong Q1 switch sales An improving economy, pent-up demand, and a reduction in backlog due to supply chain constraints have all led to first quarter growth in the Ethernet switch market. The market was up 12% in Q1 to $4.6 billion, according to Infonetics Research. This follows a 15% hike in the fourth quarter of 2009, and is up 41% from the first quarter of 2009. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart But Timely This video highlights the Oracle Accelerate program - a group of pre-configured, tested solutions that combine Oracle enterprise applications and rapid implementation tools with industry-specific bundles. The program reduces the time, complexity and cost of deploying Oracle and is implemented by highly trained partners. Learn More. In this Issue Cisco makes another optical acquisition NetFlow Part 3 VoIP phone service reaps savings, features for staffing firm Cisco Live! once again open to all press WAN Ethernet / VPLS: Is overhead an issue? Cisco buys Moto -- no, not that Moto WHITE PAPER: IBM 5 Tips for Getting BI Right Due to improvements in Business Intelligence technology and the way CIOs are implementing it, BI has the potential to transform organizations by delivering the information executives need in order to facilitate accurate decisions and provide relevant performance metrics. Read More Cisco makes another optical acquisition Cisco is acquiring CoreOptics, a designer of digital signal processing (DSP) technology for optical networking applications. Will this $99 million buy turn out better than Cisco's past optical purchases? Read More NetFlow Part 3 In the previous post, we looked at the NetFlow top-talkers feature, which is probably the quickest way to get traffic-level details about what's happening on a router in real time. There have been a couple of comments from people wanting to know more about NetFlow versions, and other NetFlow commands. I want to stay focused on stuff that the average mid-level engineer can do without purchasing... Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! VoIP phone service reaps savings, features for staffing firm When staffing firm Aquent scrapped its decentralized phone system for an outsourced VoIP service it saved $20,000 per month, expanded the features of its videoconferencing system and enhanced functionality of its ERP system in one fell swoop. Read More Cisco Live! once again open to all press Maybe our whining last year paid off? Most of you probably could care less, but press and analysts - ALL press and analysts - are invited back to Cisco Live! this year after being discouraged from physically attending last year unless you worked locally in San Francisco, where the event was held. Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More WAN Ethernet / VPLS: Is overhead an issue? We're in the midst of a most interesting conversation at Webtorials on the subject of "Wide Area Ethernet / VPLS - Ready for Prime Time?" This conversation features an in-depth online interview with Geoff Kreiling, Manager - Product Development, at Masergy. Read More Cisco buys Moto -- no, not that Moto Cisco Tuesday said it intends to acquire privately held Moto Development Group, a product design consulting firm that helped develop Cisco's Flip video camera. Moto, not to be confused with Motorola (which sometimes is referred to by the nickname Moto), develops products and product strategies for the consumer industry. Read More
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