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	Cloud storage lives up to the hype In our continuing series of groundbreaking tests of cloud computing services, we take a look at what enterprises can expect if they decide to entrust data to a cloud storage provider. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Aperture Integrated Resource Manager Effectively manage energy, capital resources and process efficiency in the data center with Aperture Integrated Resource Manager. Organizations can now strategically deploy resources to achieve an optimal balance between costs and service, extend data center life, reduce capital expenditure, and increase resource efficiency and use. Read Now In this Issue Supersize your WAN vSphere rounds into form Rackspace CloudFiles offers fast uploads WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More Supersize your WAN Six years ago, we tested dual-WAN routers as a way to pump more bandwidth into small businesses that couldn't afford a T1 and were stuck with relatively slow DSL and cable connections. Today, speed is less of an issue. For example, our suburban test lab has an 18Mbps connection with AT&T's U-verse service and 15Mbps (with burst downloads as high as 30Mbps) with Time Warner Cable's Road Runner Turbo. The critical need today is maintaining connectivity. The ability for dual-WAN routers to combine throughput from two sources, continue if one drops, then reconnect when the link comes back is a key selling point. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks 7 Key Challenges You Can't Ignore The virtualization of physical machines can strain application and storage networks. Take steps to recognize and address the 7 key inherent challenges so that your environment can adapt to the new demands placed on the network and storage and realize the benefits of virtualization more quickly. Read Now! vSphere rounds into form VMware's vSphere 4.0 cloud operating system, which we tested last June ushered in new methods to manage virtual machines on internal and external hosts. The 4.1 version, which shipped last month, delivers some much needed polish. Additions to the product include an updated vCenter Configuration Manager (formerly EMC's Ionix Application Stack Manager and Server Configuration Manager) as well as vCenter Application Discovery Manager (formerly EMC's Ionix Application Discovery Manager). Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers Citrix Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for 2009 Application Delivery Controllers Magic Quadrant, Gartner Group Read now! Rackspace CloudFiles offers fast uploads We discovered that there are some limitations to Rackspace CloudFiles. You can build large file objects, but they can't be larger than 5GB. There are no subdirectories, per se, but it's easy to build subdirectory translation into filenames, and the third party client software we used can simulate folders pretty simply. Read More
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