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9 real iPad alternatives
These products have features missing in the iPad - and they're slated to ship this year. Read More


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The Anxiety Behind Security and Compliance
What keeps IT executives up at night? Two words: security and compliance, according to a recent quick poll. Remote access is a solid productivity provider, but it can be a bear to manage. Learn where data loss, patch management and help desk anxieties placed among IT concerns. Click Here

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Address Real-Time Application Performance
IDC interviewed customers using Riverbed Cascade solution. Their analysis includes hard dollar ROI and benefits of the following features: • Application-level view of networks and servers • Visibility into end-to-end application delivery dependencies • Network behavioral analysis • Metrics to track performance SLAs Read now!

New Linux kernel borrows Google packet speeding tech
Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput considerably. Read More

7 IT career rules worth breaking
Sometimes sticking to the status quo can actually hinder your success. Dave Willmer offers some suggestions to help you keep your career moving forward. Read More


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An In-Depth Look at ROI
In this whitepaper, Riverbed discusses its compelling and powerful return on investment in hard dollars, and a way to leap past the obstacles preventing you from reaching your IT objectives. Read now!

News podcast: Network World 360
The built-in mechanism that lets many Internet providers tap communications for law enforcement agencies is susceptible to abuse by insiders who work for the ISPs. Citrix's VDI technology has surged ahead of rival VMware's, according to the Burton Group, which says Citrix's XenDesktop software is the first "enterprise-ready" server-hosted virtual desktop product. (5:24) Read More

Harris Corp. unveils push-to-talk over IP technology
Harris Corp. today announced a radio technology based on voice over IP (VoIP) that can be used globally for instant communications by small or large groups in business, public safety and other organizations. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Top 2 Virtualization Challenges
Virtualized data centers must become more highly available to ensure timely access to data. This paper examines the trends toward server consolidation and how WAN optimization technology can address application performance and information availability issues. Read now!

Defcon: Hacking Tire Pressure Monitors Remotely
I attended an interesting talk at Defcon today that revealed a potential security vulnerability that I never would have thought of in a million years. Yep, hacking the tire pressure monitoring system in your car. Read More

Will Future Virtual Intelligence & Precrime Predictions Kill Privacy?
If crime could be stopped before it started, by use of virtual intelligence "future" searches, what might be the cost to privacy and online anonymity? Read More

A cost-effective approach for petabyte storage systems
The onslaught of unstructured digital content -- video, audio and images -- is taxing storage systems and creating the need to be able to store multi-petabytes, but current industry practices using RAID and replication to accomplish data protection are expensive at this scale. Read More

Open source book publishing gets a boost
The idea of using open-source functionality in the book publishing field has, slowly but surely, gained more momentum lately. I've written before about how open-sourced textbooks could considerably ease college costs and of some attempts to jump-start efforts in this regard. Read More



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