How to solve cloud application performance mysteries

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	How to solve cloud application performance mysteries Ask enterprise IT executives what most concerns them about using public cloud services and "application performance" is invariably on their lists. They have good reason -- guaranteeing response times for applications that cross a nebulous cloud infrastructure is, frankly, impossible. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. 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Read Now Tips for successful UC management Continuing on last week's theme of addressing underlying UC support requirements, this week we'll look at approaches for successfully managing UC implementations. Read More New user group aims to take on the super vendors The new Open Data Center Alliance is counting on its collective $50 billion in IT spending to convince vendors to develop interoperable products and halt vendor lock-in. Read More Good news for enterprise iPads: Apple readies iOS 4.2 Apple has released the final code to developers for iOS 4.2. The new OS version, due out later this month, brings several key features already on iPhones and iPod touches to the iPad tablet. Among them are several key enterprise management and security additions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent A 'hands-free' approach to optical networking With unmatched scalability and performance, Alcatel-Lucent has a future-proof, Carrier-grade WDM solution which enables the flexibility, intelligence and reduced time to revenue data centers require and offers key tools for successful deployment: training, network management, spares and support. Read now Tell us about your APM practices -- Get a $5 Starbucks card We're surveying enterprises about their application performance management practices. We will assess the effect good practices have on improving performance outcomes, and we will write the results up in a Network World article. We want your input--and to entice you to participate, we are offering a free Starbucks' gift card to the first 100 survey participants. Read More Cisco No. 7 among green Fortune 500s Cisco Systems is No. 7 on a list of the leading green companies among the Fortune 500. Twenty-nine percent of Cisco's total electricity usage is from green sources such as wind and biomass, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Green Power Partnership. Read More AirMagnet bolsters Wi-Fi management tools AirMagnet's new versions of its Wi-Fi Analyzer and Survey applications let enterprise network administrators dig deeper into a chronic problem: wireless clients that roam from one AP to another and end up with a worse connection. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Selecting a Network Recorder for back-in-time analysis Often, the only way to get to the root cause of unwelcome or intermittent events that occur on your network is to use a Network Recorder. In this white paper you will learn when it is important to use a Network Recorder, and key considerations when selecting a network recorder for back-in-time forensics analysis. Read now! Data growth remains IT's biggest challenge, Gartner says Nearly half of the IT decision makers surveyed recently by Gartner named data growth as one of their top three challenges and almost two-thirds of them plan to add capacity next year. Read More Researchers tout unique automated firewall fault fixer Researchers will detail a tool they say will automate changes and significantly reduce the administrative upkeep of firewalls. Read More Oracle lays out its cloud vision Oracle CEO Larry Ellison famously once asked, "What the hell is cloud computing?" Nonetheless, Oracle has jumped onto the cloud bandwagon, with company officials on Monday afternoon touting the concept and the products and services that accommodate it. Read More
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