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	Nimsoft delivers integrated monitoring for Vblock units Not quite a year ago, Cisco, EMC and VMware joined together in a venture that integrated the respective vendor's Unified Computing System, storage and hypervisor into modular units called Vblock Infrastructure Packages. The goal, the trio said, was to accelerate deployment of virtualization and enable private cloud infrastructure. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Maintaining Continuity of Operations Download this HP white paper to learn how to reduce the financial impact and maintain acceptable levels of productivity during an unplanned disaster. Read Now In this Issue Businesses overconfident about IT resilience, study finds How to put IT in the user's seat CA picks up Hyperformix for virtual capacity management Cisco expects BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to do well Alarms helps you quickly manage the day's tasks Smart "E-shirt" monitors your body, helps get your game on Cisco eats its own IPv6 dog food Succession planning for IT: Get some depth to your bench IT managers ignore wireless at their peril BlackBerries gain remote support tools WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Secure, automatic protection for all your server data Your data is valuable—too valuable to risk losing through unreliable backup methods. Iron Mountain's LiveVault offers secure, easy, automated online backup for servers throughout your organization. Watch this webcast to learn how to eliminate the risks of tape-based backup while gaining scalability and fast, reliable recovery. View now Businesses overconfident about IT resilience, study finds Businesses are generally confident about the resilience of their IT systems – until disaster strikes and disruptions ensue. Read More How to put IT in the user's seat IT organizations are adding user monitoring to their arsenal of application performance management tools. By measuring the user experience, enterprises can see how real users are interacting with business applications and go into troubleshooting mode if conditions start to degrade. Read More CA picks up Hyperformix for virtual capacity management CA Technologies announced plans to buy Hyperformix, which makes capacity management software for physical, virtual and cloud IT infrastructures. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Top 10 Reasons for Using Server Online Backup and Recovery Data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer the fast, assured data recovery. This paper discusses the top 10 reasons businesses are turning to this technology. Read Now Cisco expects BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to do well Cisco expects RIM's new BlackBerry PlayBook to do well among businesses moving toward tablets, and help to augment customer demand for Cisco's WebEx service and Unified Communications Manager platforms. Read More Alarms helps you quickly manage the day's tasks There are plenty of applications meant to help us remember and accomplish our tasks throughout the day, but the Mac-friendly Alarms by Stefan Fürst is one of simpler and more unobtrusive new offerings on the market. Read More Smart "E-shirt" monitors your body, helps get your game on An electronic shirt that can monitor your body as you exercise and report any problems may hit a sporting goods store near you soon.  Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent Synchronization in Microwave Networks Convergence towards packet-transport presents multiple challenges- carry existing TDM traffic while scaling to handle higher capacities and new IP services. The Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MPR provides a unique solution enabling transformation to all-IP and supporting a mix of synchronization solutions. Read Now Cisco eats its own IPv6 dog food Cisco has been selling IPv6-enabled routers, software and services for many years. Now, Cisco is taking the initiative to deploy IPv6 on its own public-facing Web site, the company confirmed Tuesday. Read More Succession planning for IT: Get some depth to your bench The potential for losing tech talent is on the rise these days. Thanks to an uptick in IT hiring and an increase in retirements among baby boomers, your A-team employee lineup may be in danger. Read More IT managers ignore wireless at their peril Wireless communication, once the domain of broadcasters and carriers, is now available everywhere we work, play, study, dine and drink coffee. These days wireless also seems to be equipped in every imaginable device, including toys made by the likes of Fisher Price. The technology can also be thanked for eliminating what was once the common eyesore of Ethernet cable carpets. Read More BlackBerries gain remote support tools Enterprise BlackBerry handsets can now be remotely managed via an Odyssey Software plug-in, based on its Athena device management code, for RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Read More
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