Death, taxes and bandwidth growth

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	Death, taxes and bandwidth growth Despite modest economic growth, 2010 marks a year of pent-up demand for WAN bandwidth, although IT professionals seem leery of predicting wholesale increases. Nemertes notes 28% of organizations expect bandwidth growth in 2010. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap San Francisco IT Roadmap: coming to SF on November 3! IT Roadmap returns to San Francisco on November 3rd! Prepare your enterprise for 2011 at the industry's most cost-effective and practical one-day conference, featuring up to 30 best-practice sessions with expert analysts, a private IT expo and exclusive networking. Hear executive speakers from City of San Francisco, Google, TiVo, Clorox and more! Register now to attend! In this Issue Beefy Alcatel-Lucent switch targets Cisco, Juniper Why Cisco Umi doesn't have what Chambers wanted Quantum touts speedy enterprise-class deduplication appliance Which Phone 7 devices should you let on your network? Wipro teams up with Microsoft to speed up VDI deployment Firefox 4 for Android greeted with cheers and jeers Twitter revamps search engine Verizon's LTE network to reach 38 cities this year Microsoft refuses to reveal cloud e-mail customer numbers WHITE PAPER: NetApp Consolidate and Virtualize Your Windows Environment Joint NetApp-VMware whitepaper on Windows consolidation. This whitepaper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution. Read More! Beefy Alcatel-Lucent switch targets Cisco, Juniper Alcatel-Lucent this week will reawaken its enterprise switching business with a core switch designed to go up against Cisco's Nexus and Juniper's high-end Ethernet box. Read More Why Cisco Umi doesn't have what Chambers wanted With Cisco's introduction of its Umi home TelePresence system, a vision that Chairman and CEO John Chambers has been talking about for years finally saw the light of day. But one piece of his dream is still missing. Read More Quantum touts speedy enterprise-class deduplication appliance Quantum announced a deduplication appliance for enterprise-class data centers that it says is faster than EMC's Data Domain box for disk-to-disk backup. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG How Desktop Virtualization Changes the Game for IT Virtualization has busted out of the data center and overspread the desktop and application worlds. Citrix has emerged as a major innovator in virtualization solutions. Click here to read an Executive Viewpoint featuring Citrix CEO Mark Templeton. Click to continue Which Phone 7 devices should you let on your network? I can't help but roll my eyes when smartphone TV spots advertise watching big screen motion pictures on a five-inch screen. Really? "Avatar" on a smartphone? You think you're going to convince me that I'm in a movie theater? In a pinch, maybe I would watch TV or movies on a smartphone, but I'm more interested about practical uses of a smartphone like for work. Read More Wipro teams up with Microsoft to speed up VDI deployment Wipro has developed a new way Desktop as a Service implementation in conjunction with Microsoft. Read More Firefox 4 for Android greeted with cheers and jeers Mozilla's release of Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Android (and Maemo) phones brought with it some cheers -- and some jeers. Though Firefox 4 Beta 1 showed improvements in some areas, it stumbled in others, leaving users yearning for speedy future enhancements. Here's a rundown of what's new with Firefox and what requires more of Mozilla's attention. Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel - Lucent Packet radio- the next wave in IP transformation Trying to stay afloat in a sea of exploding data requirements, demand for new service offerings and stiff competition? The Alcatel-Lucent 9500 Microwave Packet Radio enables a smooth transformation in your backhaul networks from TDM to IP, providing substantial CAPEX and OPEX savings. View Now Twitter revamps search engine Twitter has overhauled the back-end infrastructure of its search engine, boosting its speed and capacity to index posts, process queries and deliver results, while making the system more stable and better suited for the addition of new features. Read More Verizon's LTE network to reach 38 cities this year Verizon Wireless announced that 38 markets, including Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, will get access to the high-speed LTE network by the end of this year. Read More Microsoft refuses to reveal cloud e-mail customer numbers Tech companies love to play games with numbers -- especially when they don't want to admit that a product isn't being adopted by as many customers as they'd like. That's an essential truth to keep in mind when trying to figure out how many people actually use the cloud e-mail services offered by Microsoft and Google. Read More
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