Why Cisco Umi doesn't have what Chambers wanted

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	Why Cisco Umi doesn't have what Chambers wanted With Cisco's introduction of its Umi home TelePresence system on Wednesday, 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 WHITE PAPER: NetApp ESG Analyst Report: "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! In this Issue The new WAN architecture: a blueprint A heavyweight fight: Cisco vs. HP The US offshore wind energy technology conundrum Cell processor development hasn't stalled, IBM CTO says Cisco unveils Umi home videoconferencing U.S. in rare earth quandry On tails, green peas and breaking waves: What's hot in space? WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Delivering Faster Applications to Any User, Anywhere This guide looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within a WAN Optimization environment. Read More The new WAN architecture: a blueprint If you're struggling to rearchitect your WAN to handle unprecedented growth, you're not alone. Enterprise organizations are gearing up for a bandwidth tsunami. Read More A heavyweight fight: Cisco vs. HP This newsletter will look at the continually deteriorating relationship between HP and Cisco and what this means for IT organizations as both HP and Cisco race to provide an integrated solution that involves networking, storage and servers. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Report: A Smart New Approach to Storage Purchases 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! The US offshore wind energy technology conundrum US could see more then 4,000 GW of power from offshore windIf wind is ever to be a significant part of the energy equation in this country we'll need to take it offshore - into the deep oceans.  Large offshore wind objects could harness about more than 4,000 GW of electricity according to a massive report on wind energy out this week from the Read More Cell processor development hasn't stalled, IBM CTO says Development around the original Cell processor hasn't stalled and IBM will continue to develop chips and supply hardware for future gaming consoles, a company executive said. 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. Cisco unveils Umi home videoconferencing Cisco has introduced Umi, a home telepresence system that uses existing high-definition TVs and also works with Google Video Chat. Read More U.S. in rare earth quandry In the face of China wielding menacing control over 97% of the world's rare earth materials, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would bolster R&D of the key elements and help find substitutions for the materials. Read More On tails, green peas and breaking waves: What's hot in space? There have been some great images and new space research revealed in the past couple weeks, most of it coming from the European Planetary Science Congress 2010. Most of the images and results centered on what the planets and stars are made of. In most cases though a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Here's a roundup of some of the most interesting studies and images. Read More
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