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	Favorite cheap network tools We asked our bloggers to give us a list of the free or nearly free network tools they love. They had tons of them, ranging from ways to track network device configurations to ways to keep data synched between multiple devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks The ROI of Application Delivery Controllers How modern offload technologies in Application Delivery Controllers can drastically reduce expenses in traditional and virtualized architectures, with a fast ROI. Read now! In this Issue HP Networking's Haas aims at simplicity Need a virtual server tune-up in 2011? Solid state drives no better than others, survey says 31 "How To" resources you might have missed What's in your network? Modem 'hand-off' from 3G to LTE can take two minutes, Verizon says Cisco helps fuel "record" Q3 in edge routers Best NAS boxes for less than $1,000 Dell agrees to buy Compellent for $960M WHITE PAPER: IBM Solve Your Toughest Planning and Scheduling Problems Optimization is unique simply by being the mathematical discipline focused on efficiency. Along with statistics and predictive analytics, it is one of the two mathematical disciplines used most frequently in the world of business. Read Now HP Networking's Haas aims at simplicity Marius Haas, senior vice president and general manager of HP Networking, has had a good year. In 2010, Hewlett-Packard closed its acquisition of 3Com, dramatically expanding its networking portfolio and sales, and also continued to log progress with its own LAN products. In the company's fiscal fourth quarter, which ended Oct. 31, HP's networking revenue grew 227 percent with the former 3Com portfolio included. Even without the new offerings, sales grew 50 percent from a year earlier. This week, Haas took time to talk with IDG News Service about that growth and the company's vision for networking. Read More Need a virtual server tune-up in 2011? Veloxum for VMware could help boost utilization while dropping your TCO. Read More Solid state drives no better than others, survey says Solid state drives (SSD) appear to be as unreliable as traditional hard disks. In fact, they're marginally less reliable: Taken as an average across models, 2.05 percent of SSDs got returned as non-functioning, compared to 1.94 percent of hard disks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Scriptlogic PacketTrap IT Network & IT Infrastructure Management PacketTrap IT is a comprehensive solution that solves problems with bandwidth, connectivity, network & infrastructure performance quickly & easily. PacketTrap supports multiple sites, is easier to use & more complete than traditional network monitoring products. Download a FREE 21 day trial. Learn More 31 "How To" resources you might have missed Between Network World and its sister publications we've produced a dizzying number of "How To" articles this year. Here's a handy roundup of some of the most useful, featuring pieces on everything from Android smartphones to Windows 7 to full disk encryption. Read More What's in your network? Documenting your network may sound like a mundane task, but it's vitally important for IT managers to keep their network documentation up to date for a number of reasons. Read More Modem 'hand-off' from 3G to LTE can take two minutes, Verizon says Verizon Wireless said on Friday that laptop users with USB modems on its new high-speed LTE network may experience up to a two-minute delay when switching over from a 3G coverage zone. 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! Cisco helps fuel "record" Q3 in edge routers The service provider edge router market just completed a record quarter in Q3, according to Dell'Oro Group. It's up 25% from Q3 of 2009, surpassing $1.5 billion in worldwide revenue - a record level, according to the firm.  Read More Best NAS boxes for less than $1,000 Buffalo Technology shattered the $1,000 barrier for a terabyte of shared storage back in 2005. With storage prices continuing to drop, that same $1,000 today can buy a 4T or even 5TB network-attached storage (NAS) device with RAID 5 disk redundancy, plus additional features, like backup storage licenses and indexing capabilities. Read More Dell agrees to buy Compellent for $960M Dell has agreed to buy virtualized storage vendor Compellent Technologies in an all-cash deal worth $27.75 per share, a little more than the $27.50 per share price tag it was discussing with the company last week, but still lower than the stock's Monday-morning opening price of $28.30. Read More
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