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	How does your ISP rate? Like politics, all Internet performance is local. Given this axiom, we have excellent news for folks interested in tracking last mile ISP performance. For the first time, you can get up-to-date Internet performance statistics by state, by city, and by ISP -- as well as by country of course. This data is great for regional, head-to-head, ISP comparisons. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest A Cost-Effective Approach to Complexity Outsourcing network management can save time and drive lower total cost of ownership. Read more! In this Issue UNH starts 40/100G Ethernet interoperability testing Upping the user experience quotient Game changers: 12 technologies that changed everything Don't forget about the network in your UC plans IDC: SaaS momentum skyrocketing When taking stock of performance, beware the benchmarking blues How to re-architect your data center network Spiceworks adds more flavor to its free IT management software Amazon cloud perfect for building start-ups, says John Seely Brown A waste of space: Bulk of drive capacity still underutilized WHITE PAPER: Insight How to Reduce Overall Storage Costs By 10x Discover how IT can better optimize its storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost-effective, scalable information management platform that is: * Easy to manage. * Delivers the performance and availability competitive businesses require. Read now! UNH starts 40/100G Ethernet interoperability testing The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) this week launched a consortium for companies preparing 40/100G Ethernet products compliant with the IEEE 802.3ba standard. Read More Upping the user experience quotient Pity the IT manager who has known of application performance shortcomings but has not delivered that information to the business -- only to be called out on it anyways. Ouch. Read More Game changers: 12 technologies that changed everything New technologies emerge all the time, but only a handful change everything that follows in their wake. And they're not always the first of their kind. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Employee Web Use and Misuse: This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. Read Now Don't forget about the network in your UC plans Since the very first VOIP deployment, IT engineers and architects have struggled with performance management. Whereas "throw bandwidth at the problem" was a viable solution when the only sensitive application was voice, the introduction of video as part of the UC equation, coupled with increases in other latency sensitive traffic means that a successful UC implementation requires paying close attention to network performance metrics including latency and jitter. Read More IDC: SaaS momentum skyrocketing Interest in the SaaS (software as a service) delivery model is growing to the point that by 2012, almost 85% of new vendors will be focused on SaaS services, according to new research from analyst firm IDC. Read More When taking stock of performance, beware the benchmarking blues Done well, benchmarks provide a basis for sound decision making. Yet, badly crafted benchmarks are remarkably common. Even worse, a poorly crafted benchmark can intuitively look like a good one, thereby discouraging a deeper benchmarking evaluation that could deliver superior results. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & AMD A Powerful Platform for Virtualization Examine the 5 unique requirements that virtualization imposes on hardware, and discover how the next generation of HP's ProLiant server line can deliver virtualized, efficient data centers, rapid ROI and lower operational expenses. Learn More Today! How to re-architect your data center network Server virtualization is one of the major factors driving IT organizations to evolve their data center network. In this newsletter we will describe a project we started that can help IT organizations with that evolution. Read More Spiceworks adds more flavor to its free IT management software Whether working at a large enterprise or small company, time typically isn't on the IT staff's side. Consider industry estimates that routinely place upwards of 70% of an IT department's time spent on basic, "keep the lights on" tasks. That leaves little productive time to focus on the innovative projects that will help boost the business. Read More Amazon cloud perfect for building start-ups, says John Seely Brown Start-ups are wasting venture funding on IT infrastructure that will soon be obsolete, Burton Group Catalyst speaker says. Read More A waste of space: Bulk of drive capacity still underutilized Near the turn of the century, data centers were only beginning to implement Fibre Channel storage-area networks (SAN), with most relying on direct-attached storage (DAS). Data utilization rates were abysmal, with data centers on average using just 25% to 30% of their hard disk drive capacity. Read More
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