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	Carfax accelerates data delivery to meet demand Carfax is used by millions of buyers and sellers each year to research used cars and light trucks. As demand for used vehicle information rapidly increases, so do the number of visitors to Carfax.com. To better manage the load and ensure fast, reliable delivery of vehicle data, Carfax recently upgraded from traditional load balancing technology to next-generation application delivery controllers (ADCs) to accelerate performance, cut data center costs and boost capacity over existing infrastructure. Read More E-GUIDE: IBM Corporation 5 Tips for Getting BI Right Due to improvements in Business Intelligence (BI) 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. Learn more. In this Issue Cisco, MobileAccess offer in-building cellular boost over copper cable Oracle engineer reveals latency mysteries with heat maps Avaya preps one-box data-center strategy Overclocking for newbies White House backs FCC plan to nearly double wireless bandwidth over next 10 years Q&A: SIP pioneer/Cisco Fellow jumps ship to Skype Google moves encrypted search to a new site VMware co-founder tackles virtualization at Cisco High availability, headless communists, and other random thoughts from Networkers A third of IT managers fighting board for higher budgets RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Cisco, MobileAccess offer in-building cellular boost over copper cable Cisco Systems and MobileAccess today announced a system designed to improve in-building cellular signals that uses copper cable integrated into corporate LANs and works alongside Cisco Wi-Fi networks. Read More Oracle engineer reveals latency mysteries with heat maps Heat maps can reveal, though not always explain, systems latency, an Oracle engineer argues. Read More Avaya preps one-box data-center strategy Avaya is prepping to launch its one-box data-center strategy early in October -- the VSP 9000 switch -- as a counter to Cisco's more comprehensive approach. Read More E-GUIDE: IBM Corporation eGuide: A New Look at BI Business Intelligence (BI) is helping organizations worldwide make smarter business decisions. This eGuide examines how BI is being deployed with expert articles on: • 7 key steps to rolling out BI • BI on a Tight Budget • What processes are the best candidates for BPM? • Best practices for predictive analysis Learn more. Overclocking for newbies Overclocking refers to pushing your computer components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go. The initial pitch is seductive: Buy a slower, lower-cost CPU; juice up the clock speed; and presto! You have a cheap, high-end processor. Read More White House backs FCC plan to nearly double wireless bandwidth over next 10 years The FCC has been under intense political and industry pressure ever since Congress directed the agency to come up with a National Broadband Plan to guide the modernization and expansion of broadband Internet access in the United States. The White House is stepping in, though, to support the FCC plan and proceed with freeing up unused frequency spectrum for use in expanding wireless broadband. Read More Q&A: SIP pioneer/Cisco Fellow jumps ship to Skype Jonathan Rosenberg, co-author of the Session Initiation Protocol, joined Skype in November 2009 as chief technology strategist to apply what he's learned about disruptive IP technologies. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Rosenberg over a Skype voice connection to see what the Skype lure was for him. Read More WHITE PAPER: Radware Fighting Cybercrime Hacker motivation has changed from gaining fame to financial gain. Cyber crime activities now employ a new level of network attacks, which go undetected by standard network-security tools. This paper discusses the changing threat landscape and how you can protect your business from emerging threats. Read More Google moves encrypted search to a new site Google's encrypted search engine, launched in May, has moved to a new Web address that isn't as convenient as its original one but that gives organizations the option to block the site for their users without locking them out of other Google services. Read More VMware co-founder tackles virtualization at Cisco VMware co-founder Ed Bugnion, now at Cisco, is making sure the network adapts to the age of virtualization. Read More High availability, headless communists, and other random thoughts from Networkers I hope to leave a few posts this week from the Cisco Live aka Networkers show. It's still early in the show, so no big announcements yet, and no answers yet on the questions we're collecting with the previous post. But I've seen a few things of some interest, some networking, some not, so I'll start this week's posts with a random thoughts kind of post. Read More A third of IT managers fighting board for higher budgets A third of IT managers in the UK are trying to convince their organization's directors to invest more in technology, following a tough year of budget cuts in many firms. Read More
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