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	Cisco FabricPath enables faster, simpler, flatter data center networks Cisco has three words for network architects looking to grow their data centers: Faster. Flatter. Simpler. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage for Windows Environments This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server data along with your Windows files using NetApp storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments. Read More! In this Issue Google to start 1Gbps trial Big iron sticking around, mainframe survey finds 25 new IT companies to watch 25 hot products from new IT companies Application delivery networking: What to look for The two flavors of M2M: sensor and control nets Cablevision tunes into a self-service portal Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power A Framework to Visualize the Data Center Increasing rack density makes it critical to understand environmental characteristics around weight, heating, cooling and power. Flat-file data center planning and management tools can't Read Now Google to start 1Gbps trial Google is starting the next stage of its high-speed broadband trial with a project at Stanford University. Read More Big iron sticking around, mainframe survey finds Big iron isn't going away anytime soon, say mainframe users polled by BMC. In fact, 84% of mainframe shops expect to see growing or steady MIPS usage on the platform. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Expert Guide to Latest Network Trends The emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, virtualization and unified switching fabrics is ushering in a major shift in data center network design: three-tier switching architectures are being collapsed into two-tier ones. Review this Network World eGuide to help you build a more reliable, stable and future-proof network. Read Now 25 new IT companies to watch The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of cloud computing and virtualization, a flood of young technology companies is hitting the market. Read More 25 hot products from new IT companies High-tech products from Network World's startups to watch. 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 Application delivery networking: What to look for In this third installation of a three-part series on application delivery networking solutions, we'll look at a number of factors that need to be taken into consideration in your choice of supplier(s) for your implementation. Read More The two flavors of M2M: sensor and control nets Here's a provocative prediction for you: By 2012, there will be more non-IT than IT devices on the typical corporate network. This came from an IT professional I work with, who's seeing these trends already on his network. Read More Cablevision tunes into a self-service portal When Embotics, a virtual machine life-cycle management mainstay, updated its V-Commander tool this summer with a self-service portal that allows customizable views for different IT team members, Cablevision Systems was all over the upgrade. Read More Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon Being a CIO -- or working for one -- no longer means just keeping a data center and network running. Now the CIO and the IT division must become "entrepreneurial" to drum up new customers for the business and learn how to deploy cutting-edge technologies such as "context-based computing" -- or risk becoming irrelevant. Read More
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