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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Who to call when identifying a problem or planning a deployment gets beyond you

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Who to call when identifying a problem or planning a deployment gets beyond you
For an enterprise IT professional, one of the worst circumstances has got to be the inability to pinpoint performance problems. The longer the problems persist, the higher the frustration levels. Toss in some cross-discipline finger pointing, and a bad situation quickly worsens. Read More


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Boots & Coots was facing a problem – the amount of data they were replicating multiple times each day for data protection was piling up and they were having queuing problems. After deploying Certeon's aCelera Sync WAN optimization software, they were able to replicate data without interruption and reduce their network bandwidth utilization by up to 90%. Read More

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Too many companies have no idea that they're distributing open source software and therefore violating the GPL, a survey by OpenLogic found. Read More

No more Mr. Nice IT Guy
Today IT mostly finds itself in an uncomfortable situation. To recycle a much over-used metaphor, IT has been caught in a perfect storm created by budgets that are collapsing or barely staying level, increasing internal demand for solutions to improve line of business financials, and external services that undermine IT's authority and the integrity of internal solutions. Read More


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