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	BSM for every need With the alignment of IT service performance and business impact a perennial enterprise IT challenge, business service management remains a sweet spot for vendors of every ilk, from the largest platform providers to emerging innovators. That makes sorting through the myriad offerings a challenge indeed. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IBM IBM Rational DOORS Day IBM Rational DOORS has been the leading Requirements Management solution for over a decade. Attend our semianr and you will learn how to: - Further improve your requirements management processes - Develop new ways to access, understand, visualize & collaborate on requirements - Improve requirements quality Learn More & Register today! In this Issue Network World's Products of the Week slideshow Holders of jobs outsourced abroad have their beefs, too Wireless helps dairy with milk, ice cream deliveries Stupidest excuse for slow app performance? The Magic Threshold. Juniper making enterprise inroads vs. Cisco White House cybersecurity chief calls meeting to discuss President's agenda Microsoft punches Cisco, VMware in the eye with Windows Azure Appliance Oracle releases 59 patches for security flaws, three critical With fix now out, Microsoft sees jump in XP attacks SIP Forum shares latest projects WHITE PAPER: Qwest Infrastructures for Innovation Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and speeding up customer service. They can generate immediate cost savings by eliminating the cost of maintaining separate voice lines. Read more! Network World's Products of the Week slideshow Our round-up of intriguing new products from Sophos, EMC, Firetide, among others. Read More Holders of jobs outsourced abroad have their beefs, too You say you're not happy about seeing so many tech-related jobs outsourced overseas? And that it's stressful dealing with foreign call-center employees who may lack a grasp of their product sets and/or English? Turns out the holders of these jobs are not always happy with the situation either. Read More Wireless helps dairy with milk, ice cream deliveries A California dairy has begun a rollout of more than 200 of Motorola's MC 9500 rugged handhelds to delivery drivers. 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 Stupidest excuse for slow app performance? The Magic Threshold. As a production DBA I see different problem scenarios all the time. And in every one of these scenarios there's always this blame game going on. The apps people think it's the database; the database people think it's the disk; the disk guys folks think it's the server; the server guys think it's the network; and the network peeps have no idea what it is, but they just know it's not the network. Read More Juniper making enterprise inroads vs. Cisco Juniper's enterprise business rebounded in Q2 after a soft Q1 but the service provider side of the house may be challenged heading to Q3. That's the conclusions of two analysts who have checked in with the Juniper channel before the company reports its Q2 results next week. Read More White House cybersecurity chief calls meeting to discuss President's agenda White House cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt will host a meeting Wednesday to discuss progress and ways to move forward on the cybersecurity agenda outlined by President Barack Obama in May 2009. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Efficiently Delivering Enterprise-Class File-Based Storage IDC: Read about the exponential growth in file-based storage. Learn how having intelligence on data stored can help storage managers make smarter decisions about data storage, protection, archiving, retention, and disposition. Read Now. Microsoft punches Cisco, VMware in the eye with Windows Azure Appliance The Windows Azure Appliance that Microsoft announced on Monday combines cloud services and virtualization with an on-premises flexible server, networking, storage. Partners for the device include Dell, HP, Fujitsu. Sound familiar? It should. Read More Oracle releases 59 patches for security flaws, three critical Oracle released 59 patches on Tuesday to fix security vulnerabilities across its entire range of database, application and middleware products. Read More With fix now out, Microsoft sees jump in XP attacks Microsoft urged Windows users to update their software Tuesday, saying it's now seen more than 25,000 attacks leveraging one of the critical bugs fixed in July's monthly security patches. Read More SIP Forum shares latest projects We recently spoke with Marc Robins, president and managing director of the SIP Forum, to catch up on the latest news about Session Initiation Protocol. In its latest efforts, the SIP Forum has worked to enhance security features for SIP trunking; suggested ways to more easily configure SIP endpoints; added Fax-over-IP to the list of SIP-controlled services; and started work on SIP-based unified communications, HD video, and smart grid device controls. Read More
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