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	Riverbed readies cloud, mobility and virtualization rollout Riverbed has products on tap that will enable WAN optimization as a cloud service, speed up the boot time for remote virtual desktops and, perhaps in a year or two, a software client that will speed up the performance of handhelds and smartphones. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue IBM to accelerate mobile unified communications Turning the world into a sensor network The best Web browser: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari? Survey: Broadband growth slowing in the US AT&T wireless chief blesses Verizon-Google proposal Pear Note 2.0 gains Web sharing, speed control Solve on-the-go hassles: Wi-Fi woes, sluggish netbooks The dawn of the service delivery network WHITE PAPER: Insight How to Double Productivity of Your IT Staff Examine how Oracle Database 11g helps IT provide more information with higher quality of service, making more efficient use of budgets and reducing the risk of change in data centers. Learn more! IBM to accelerate mobile unified communications Keeping Microsoft and Cisco in its sights, IBM is planning to introduce variety of collaboration tools for mobile platforms where it wants to create full-featured unified communications endpoints and become the mobile collaboration vendor of choice. Read More Turning the world into a sensor network Imagine a world with trillions of wireless sensors. Now imagine trying to make sense of all that data. Carnegie Mellon University, IBM, and Bombardier are launching joint research efforts to solve the big problems of small devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Security in the Cloud This technology dossier contains four papers that address security considerations in cloud computing. It includes IDG Research results on what IT managers have to say about cloud security, executive viewpoints on blending cloud solutions to optimize security, and a strategy paper that addresses protecting data. Read now! The best Web browser: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari? Find out which of the leading browsers is the perfect balance of features, speed, innovation, and flexibility for you. Read More Survey: Broadband growth slowing in the US Broadband adoption in the U.S. grew by 5% over the past year, the smallest increase since 2004, according to a survey that's widely recognized as an authority on broadband use in the country. 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. AT&T wireless chief blesses Verizon-Google proposal Verizon and Google's joint compromise proposal on network neutrality rules apparently has AT&T's blessing. Read More Pear Note 2.0 gains Web sharing, speed control Taking text notes or recording the audio of a lecture or meeting is old news. Pear Note from Useful Fruit Software unites both tasks in a single document that pairs the audio and text, and a major 2.0 upgrade to the previously reviewed version brings new sharing and playback features, topped off with a redesigned interface. Read More Solve on-the-go hassles: Wi-Fi woes, sluggish netbooks Ever run into a slow Wi-Fi network, regret buying a netbook, or wish you had more online storage? I can help! This week I'll tell you how to troubleshoot a hotspot, goose more speed from a netbook, and get 250MB of free storage with Dropbox. Read More The dawn of the service delivery network IT organizations need to continue to focus on application delivery, but they also need to start to focus on service delivery. Read More
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