Cisco/EMC: The rumor that keeps on giving

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	Cisco/EMC: The rumor that keeps on giving Comes up again like the change of seasons, even though Oracle was this week's potential bidderAh, the change of seasons. Every three months, we here in the Northeast are blessed to bear witness to the diversity of Mother Nature. Yep, we can count on the seasonal transition every quarter, every three months...  Read More WEBCAST: NetApp Use 50% Less Storage - Guaranteed Listen to this on-demand Webcast and hear Chris Rima of Tucson Electric Power discuss how his organization managed data growth and improved performance with storage and server virtualization. You'll also hear Brian Garrett from ESG and NetApp experts discuss ways to consolidate your Windows® application data, files, and virtual machines. Learn More In this Issue Cisco's top 10 rivals App acceleration: Managed service or roll your own? Chinese anti-satellite space junk count hits 3,000 Half of home Wi-Fi networks vulnerable to hacking Six enterprise security leaks you should plug now 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! Cisco's top 10 rivals Competition is only getting tougher for Cisco as it continues to expand in 30 or so new markets while attempting to maintain growth in its core routing and switching businesses. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Changing the Way You Purchase Storage Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment. Read now! App acceleration: Managed service or roll your own? There no longer seems to be much argument about the need to optimize the performance of applications over wide area networks – the business requires service level guarantees and you're going to save money in the process. A win/win. The only question now is, do you buy and install the optimization gear yourself or put the responsibility in the lap of a service provider? Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks The Top 5 VoIP problems and how to solve them With the prevalence of Voice over IP and Streaming Video applications within the enterprise, it is important to understand several of the most common problems encountered during implementation. This paper examines each of these problems and addresses how the ClearSight Analyzer can be used to isolate the cause of the problem. Read now! Chinese anti-satellite space junk count hits 3,000 NASA says space debris from the Chinese the Fengyun-1C spacecraft anti-satellite test poses distict hazards to other satellitesThree years after the Chinese government blew one of its satellites in space with a missile the debris from that explosion continues to grow.  Read More Half of home Wi-Fi networks vulnerable to hacking Nearly half of all home Wi-Fi networks could be hacked within five seconds, says CPP. Read More Six enterprise security leaks you should plug now The Titanic was thought to be unsinkable, a testament to the engineering prowess of its day and the fact that luxury liners rarely collided with massive icebergs. Read More
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