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	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: Sophos Protecting personally identifiable information Virtually every organization acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information .This white paper examines the challenges organizations face and the steps they can take to protect themselves and their customers against data breaches and ensure the safety of this sensitive information. Read Now In this Issue Get ready for the untethered enterprise How to pick an end-user experience monitoring tool The new IT survival guide: How to thrive after the recession 52% of firms use social media websites BLADE, on heels of IBM buy, pops 40G Ethernet data center switch 3G/4G as an access service Enterprises converge networks to maximize IT assets Virgin to use BT's superfast broadband network Ice balls help data center go green 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! Get ready for the untethered enterprise For a small but growing number of enterprise users, it's time to cut the cord. Read More How to pick an end-user experience monitoring tool Through a recent survey, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, Aberdeen Group said it found solid evidence that monitoring the end-user experience leads to a better overall application experience not only for users but also support staff. And to my way of thinking, anything that makes users happy and eases the help desk's burden has to be a good investment. Read More The new IT survival guide: How to thrive after the recession In the 'new normal,' businesses want more than tech skills from their hires; here are the changes IT pros should expect. Read More E-GUIDE: IBM 5 Tips for Getting BI Right Due to improvements in Business Intelligence (BI) technology and the way CIOs are implementing it, BI has the potential to transform organizations by delivering the information executives need in order to facilitate accurate decisions and provide relevant performance metrics. Learn more. 52% of firms use social media websites More than half (52%) of firms use social media such as LinkedIn and Twitter, says the Forum of Private Business. Read More BLADE, on heels of IBM buy, pops 40G Ethernet data center switch BLADE Network Technologies, the data center switch vendor being acquired by IBM, this week unveiled a top-of-rack 10G switch with 40G Ethernet uplinks, making it one of the first vendors to ship the new standard high-speed technology. Read More 3G/4G as an access service This newsletter will look at the slow rate of evolution of the WAN and will discuss the possibility of using cellular services as an access service. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Inside the Energy-Efficient Data Center The enterprise data centers long been an energy hog, But the situation is improving within many enterprise data centers as data center managers and the industry as a whole come to terms with how to boost IT efficiencies while improving power and cooling methodologies — all while keeping costs in check. Read Now. Enterprises converge networks to maximize IT assets For many of the IT professionals attending Storage Networking World, combining communications, server and storage networks is an appealing prospect. Some companies are already in the middle of converging on an IP network and others see it in their future. Read More Virgin to use BT's superfast broadband network Virgin Media has revealed it plans to open-up its fibre network to other UK ISPs. Read More Ice balls help data center go green Green isn't usually the first color that comes to mind when one visits the hot, dry desert climate of Phoenix, where temperatures recently topped 109 degrees. But that's exactly where I/O Data Center has opened a 180,000-square-foot commercial data center collocation facility that couples an energy-efficient design with the use of innovative green technologies. Read More
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