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Cisco finds "disconnect" between IT and workers

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Cisco finds "disconnect" between IT and workers
Many shun policies in order to use unauthorized devices, social mediaThere's a disconnect between a company's IT department and its workers, especially as employees are more mobile and use a variety of devices to access data. These are the second set of findings from a survey commissioned by Cisco to determine challenges enterprises face as their workforce becomes more mobile, and use more consumer-centric technologies - like social media - to accomplish their tasks.... Read More


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Managing a Global Wireless LAN-Best Practices from Intel IT
In this webinar, Intel IT explains how they overcame challenges associated with managing their global WLAN across 150 Intel sites in 63 countries, supporting more than 45k simultaneous users every day. Intel highlights best practices for managing a global WLAN and how they cut support costs. Learn more!

Stephen Colbert gives Cisco TelePresence the Bump
Should President Obama have skipped his trip to India in favor of TelePresence conference call? Stephen Colbert makes no bones about it – if you've want a product featured prominently on his show, he'll take your money. And so the Colbert Nation was treated to a none-too-subtle Colbert Bump for Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing Monday night. Read More


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Replacement program offered for Cisco ACE XML Gateway
Vordel discounting its own appliance until Dec. 23A privately-held maker of application acceleration appliances is offering a replacement program for Cisco's discontinued ACE XML Gateway. Read More


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Get Control of Your Datacenter
Application Delivery Controller helps IT leverage data center technologies to quickly adapt to changing business demands. Read now!

It's Time For A New Name for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Myopic industry-driven title has become obsoleteBack around 2005, DLP was the buzz term Du Jour within the information security industry. DLP was designed to find sensitive data and make sure that this data wasn't accidentally or maliciously mis-used. The most common DLP implementation was as a network gateway for filtering Layer 7 content. When a DLP devices spotted credit card numbers in an email, it simply blocked this transmission thus preventing... Read More

Oracle Server Virtualization: The Quiet Killer Technology
Oracle's application, middleware and management prowess could trump VMware's market share lead While Wall Street and the IT industry remain ga-ga over VMware, the company has some serious challenges ahead. According to ESG Research large organizations are embracing server virtualization technology for workload consolidation, but continue to struggle with more sophisticated server virttualization implementation issues like: 1. Performance management. Server virtualization creates numerous... Read More

Blue Coat brings application-awareness to PacketShaper range
Blue Coat Systems has introduced application awareness to its packet-shaping appliance range to improve content recognition Read More



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