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	Ipanema attacks the North American WAN optimization market Ipanema Technologies is 11 years old and mainly does business in Europe, but the French company is making a push into the United States hoping to land major carriers and enterprises as customers of its WAN optimization gear. Read More REPORT: APC by Schneider Electric Inside the Energy-Efficient Data Center The enterprise data centers long been an energy hog, But the situation is improving within many enterprise data centers as data center managers and the industry as a whole come to terms with how to boost IT efficiencies while improving power and cooling methodologies — all while keeping costs in check. Read Now. In this Issue Ultimate endpoint management tools User activity monitoring answers the age-old questions of who, what and when SolarWinds broadens scope of flagship net performance monitor IPv6 – some specific recommendations Voltaire ups ante in InfiniBand/Ethernet duel Mobile broadband industry focusing on cloud Software bug derailed Windows bid to top Linux in supercomputing speed Who will build the next enterprise architects? WHITE PAPER: Socialtext Web-Oriented Architecture is Changing Enterprise IT Companies want to surface key events from traditional systems of record inside social applications where employees can collaborate and take action to improve core business processes. This paper discusses the trend and requirements necessary to build an enterprise architecture to perform the integration. Read now! Ultimate endpoint management tools Desktop virtualization, Web apps, software as a service, and an increasingly mobile user base have created new challenges when it comes to endpoint management. Nonetheless, there are still some constants – endpoints need to be deployed, configured, patched, secured and supported. Read More User activity monitoring answers the age-old questions of who, what and when The city of Richmond, Va., had a user access problem. Due to an inadvertent misconfiguration of Active Directory, internal users were able to access systems and databases that they shouldn't have had access to. A user activity monitoring tool helped the city see the inappropriate access and lock down their systems. Read More WEBCAST: Red Hat 5-Step RISC Migration Planning Process In this session, HP and Red Hat speakers will explain how to prepare for and execute an effective migration from SPARC/Solaris OS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. View Now! SolarWinds broadens scope of flagship net performance monitor As everybody knows, peering into today's data centers provide a whole different view than just a year or two ago.  Read More IPv6 – some specific recommendations While we may have felt that the federal government may be a little overly zealous in its plans and mandates, and adoption by the Feds certainly does not mean that it's a good idea, there's no question that IPv6 needs to be on your radar scope for a transition within the next two to five years. 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 Voltaire ups ante in InfiniBand/Ethernet duel The next generation InfiniBand FDR standard competes with Ethernet for conveying high-throughput, low-latency traffic. Read More Mobile broadband industry focusing on cloud The mobile broadband industry is facing a total transformation and services will be increasingly in the cloud, according to Weimin Ying, president of LTE network product line for Huawei Technologies. Read More Software bug derailed Windows bid to top Linux in supercomputing speed A few days ago, we told you about Microsoft's surprising bid to join the petascale computing age. Windows HPC Server, it seems, was able to hit petaflop speeds on Japan's largest supercomputer, but the achievement was not recognized by the bi-annual Top 500 list because Linux performed better on the same machine. Read More Who will build the next enterprise architects? Bringing the next generation of enterprise architects up to speed won't be an easy task. While most experts agree that the job is a critical one, given the corporate emphasis building business infrastructure in the most technically efficient way, training these future experts has proven difficult.  Read More
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