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	Gomez launches "User Experience Index" in time for the holidays It's the busiest online shopping week of the year, and to mark it Gomez has launched a novel way to show how well retail websites are performing from a user's viewpoint. This is a noteworthy first. Called the Compuware Gomez Retail User Experience Index (UX Index for short), this new report is much easier to interpret than traditional reports that simply rank websites by response time or other raw metrics. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Extreme Networks From Physical to Virtual to the Cloud The migration from a dedicated infrastructure to a shared and outsourced cloud infrastructure is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. With Extreme Networks "Four Pillars" strategy, Enterprises and Hosting Centers of any scale can approach change in a logical and affordable, stepwise fashion. Read More In this Issue Time for your company to consider cable? No single-vendor networks for you Who wants to be a cyber-security warrior? Verizon 150Mbps FiOS sets bar for business broadband Session border controllers evolving to support video conferencing Study: Oracle users have big private cloud plans Hong Kong and fiber give most bang for broadband buck Contrasting the LAN and WAN Carriers unite over mobile payments, NFC Huawei names ex-Nortel CTO to North America R&D post WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Online Server Backup Checklist Small businesses are quickly adopting the cloud as an alternative way to back up their critical data. If you haven't yet made the move to the cloud, attend this webcast to explore what to look for in an online backup solution to save you time, money and free up your precious IT resources. Learn more! Time for your company to consider cable? A few years back, I predicted that a cable company would supply the lion's share of WAN services to a Fortune 100 company within the year. Still hasn't happened, but there are increasing signs that 2011 could be the start of cable as a serious contender in the enterprise arena.   Read More No single-vendor networks for you According to a new report from Gartner, enterprises should be prepared to manage multivendor network infrastructure. The popular perception has been that simplicity in managing a single-vendor network naturally delivers cost efficiencies down. Gartner's study of nine enterprises running dual-vendor or multivendor network environments yielded results indicating something completely different, however. Read More Who wants to be a cyber-security warrior? The National Science Foundation is again trying to increase the amount of well-educated people willing to work for the government to secure online resources. 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 Verizon 150Mbps FiOS sets bar for business broadband Verizon is tripling the top speed of its FiOS broadband to 150Mbps. The move makes Verizon FiOS the fastest broadband service available, and opens up new possibilities for small and medium businesses that rely on consumer-grade broadband connections. Read More Session border controllers evolving to support video conferencing We're on the cusp of a leap forward in the ability of session border controllers (SBC) to support real-time, business-to-business (B2B) video conferencing and telepresence in addition to VoIP. Read More Study: Oracle users have big private cloud plans Oracle users want private clouds but most are still in early development, a user group study has found. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies Electronic Software Delivery IDC : Those that are focused on providing an exceptional software acquisition are increasingly utilizing technology that helps create and measure a positive user experience. In this IDC whitepaper, review the benefits and processes of electronic software delivery. Learn the components of a successful solution that is optimal to the end user. Learn more Hong Kong and fiber give most bang for broadband buck People living in Hong Kong pay as little as US$0.028 per megabit for fixed broadband, the lowest price in the world during the third quarter, market research company Point Topic says. Read More Contrasting the LAN and WAN As recently as a year and a half ago we both regarded cloud computing as more of a media event than anything that was real and that would impact mainstream IT organizations. That is no longer the case. As we head into 2011 we see the majority of IT organizations adopting one or more forms of cloud computing. Read More Carriers unite over mobile payments, NFC In an unusual show of solidarity, wireless operators AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile have created a joint venture focused on mobile commerce. Read More Huawei names ex-Nortel CTO to North America R&D post Huawei Technologies has named former Nortel Networks CTO John Roese to lead its North American research and development efforts. Read More
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