How to breathe new life into your virtualization deployments

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	How to breathe new life into your virtualization deployments As those of you who read the last edition of the Network and Systems Management Alert know, Denise Dubie has left the building -- but not the industry. She's moved over to CA, where she's sharing her insights in Service Assurance Daily, a regularly appearing blog. I'll call this a loss for Network World, a gain for CA and an opportunity for me. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! In this Issue Android joins battle for the enterprise 7 essential business negotiation tactics SaaS's troubled adolescence: 3 signs of immaturity Only 18% of firms prepared for World Cup IT overload Crazy-but-true stories from tech's trenches Unifying desktop apps as part of a UC strategy Getting ready for mobile video Boost productivity with Dexpot WHITE PAPER: Radware Smart Networking for the Next Generation Enterprise datacenters are facing an unprecedented transformation as organizations look to re-architect their IT investments. Critical to this growth is continued innovation in networking that goes beyond performance and security to include products that enable pay-as-you-grow models, scalability for Web 2.0, and longevity to meet TCO demands. Read More Android joins battle for the enterprise Will other mobile operating systems ever beat the BlackBerry in the enterprise? Only time will tell, but it's fair to say that there are lots of market shifts afoot, and at least the most popular devices seem to continue gaining enterprise-friendly features. Read More 7 essential business negotiation tactics Want to negotiate more effectively in professional and personal settings? Talk less and listen more. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetQoS Metrics for Your IT Service Infrastructure The Problem: Siloed teams using irrelevant service infrastructure statistics to prove their team's worth while diminishing business value. The Solution: A transparent, holistic view of the service environment infrastructure. The Result: Flexibility, agility, cost control, business-IT harmony. Read how NetQoS can make this a reality. Learn More SaaS's troubled adolescence: 3 signs of immaturity A new Forrester Research survey of enterprise software buyers sheds light on SaaS's blind spots: troubling security concerns, hidden integration costs, and data migration challenges. Read More Only 18% of firms prepared for World Cup IT overload Eighty-two percent of businesses have not planned for the potential overload on their IT systems as staff are expected to follow the World Cup during work hours, a new survey has found. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware Increasing Desktop Virtualization ROI Make your transition to desktop virtualization as successful as possible with a platform that supports the PCoIP display protocol. You can expect a superior end-user experience and an increased return on investment. PCoIP delivers a 50% reduction in display latency compared with legacy display protocols. Learn More! Crazy-but-true stories from tech's trenches Readers share their professional tech experiences in InfoWorld's Off the Record blog. Read More Unifying desktop apps as part of a UC strategy We recently had a chance to talk with Avistar's CMO, Stephen Epstein, about how video conferencing fits into a unified communications strategy and portfolio. Avistar ws founded in 1994 and has since been focused on making business-class "visual communications" as commonplace and easy to use as the telephone. Read More Getting ready for mobile video Last week I had the opportunity to get a look at Sprint's upcoming HTC EVO 4G smartphone. Running the Android operating system, the EVO represents Sprint's first attempt to leverage its 4G network to deliver bandwidth intensive services such as streaming high definition video and even video conferencing to mobile users. Read More Boost productivity with Dexpot If you want maximum control over organizing your programs and windows, check out Dexpot (free). This full-featured utility allows for distributing your running programs among distinct virtual desktops. A virtual desktop looks the same as your Windows desktop, but a given program will only show up on a particular desktop. So you can tuck away your IM and e-mail programs into desktop #3, for instance, and stay focused on your work in desktop #1. Read More
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