User experience monitoring proves worth the while

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	User experience monitoring proves worth the while "Know your users" has long been a guiding principle for IT managers assessing and selecting new technologies. But when dealing with application performance issues, IT's motto needs to be "know what your users are experiencing." Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Network Instruments Taming Cloud-Based Applications Solve application delay, reduce MTTR, and instantly pinpoint problem areas with our new Observer product line. Go from cloud-to-packet with high-level reporting solutions that can be easily drilled-downed for quick troubleshooting and analysis. Couple with the new 576 TB retrospective network analysis solution device and start taming your network. Learn more link to: In this Issue DEMOfall 2010: 15 Hot Products No IPv6 plan? You're behind schedule Making smart IT decisions: Simple steps small businesses should take for smart IT investments 10 steps to easier access management Brocade, Cisco make data center announcements The big promise of Big Data: What you need to know today Cloud providers working on ways to prove they warrant trust VoIP best practices revealed Neustar, Infoblox team on cloud service WHITE PAPER: Symantec Backup and Disaster Recovery eGuide In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO, Computerworld, CSO and InfoWorld lay down the groundwork and explore the latest tips and technologies for no-fail corporate data backup and disaster recovery. Get your copy now! DEMOfall 2010: 15 Hot Products Hot products that help you to store data, videoconference and even find true love. Read More No IPv6 plan? You're behind schedule If you haven't started deploying IPv6 -- or at least begun planning your IPv6 deployment -- you have fallen behind schedule compared to the majority of network operators worldwide, according to the latest survey about global readiness for IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More Making smart IT decisions: Simple steps small businesses should take for smart IT investments According to a recent report from Forrester Research, IT spending in the United States is expected to ramp up in the second half of the year with an estimated 19% increase in computer equipment spending, 11% growth in software spending, 7% hike in communications equipment spending, and 6% uptick in consulting services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent A 'hands-free' approach to optical networking With unmatched scalability and performance, Alcatel-Lucent has a future-proof, Carrier-grade WDM solution which enables the flexibility, intelligence and reduced time to revenue data centers require and offers key tools for successful deployment: training, network management, spares and support. Read now 10 steps to easier access management A CISO who spent two years organizing identity and access management for the 15,000 users on his network boiled the whole experience down into a 10-step process he presented at the Security Standard Conference this week. Read More Brocade, Cisco make data center announcements Brocade announced this week that it has merged its storage and network management products into a single package called Brocade Network Advisor. Read More The big promise of Big Data: What you need to know today Hadoop and other tools can unlock critical insights from unfathomable volumes of corporate and external data. Read More WEBCAST: NeuStar, Inc. 10 Must-Do's for a Profitable Selling Season The e-tailing group will ensure your team is ready to realize your maximum share of holiday dollars by highlighting best practices drawn from the e-tailing group Mystery Shopping and Mindset of a Multi-Channel studies. Learn More Cloud providers working on ways to prove they warrant trust Finding a way to verify security within cloud provider networks is essential but won't be easy, a cloud security expert told attendees at the Security Standard conference. Read More VoIP best practices revealed Today, we'd like to share highlights from a valuable (and free) reader resource about "VoIP and IPT Best Practices for Implementation," written by our longtime colleague Gary Audin at Delphi. Audin's guidelines will help not only with VoIP and IP telephony, but also help ensure organizations lay a solid foundation for unified communications. Read More Neustar, Infoblox team on cloud service In another sign that DNS operations are migrating into the cloud, industry leader Neustar is announcing a new managed service that allows companies to outsource all of their internal DNS and related network address management functions that run on Infoblox appliances. Read More
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