How to reduce WAN costs

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	How to reduce WAN costs There are basically two ways to cut WAN costs: reduce the amount of bandwidth used or find somebody who sells cheaper bandwidth. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest The Three Ps of Evaluating Managed Network Services To reduce costs and keep IT resources focused on the core business, more organizations are choosing to outsource network management. To deliver on this promise, it's essential to choose the right service provider. This in-depth report explores the key considerations, including solution portfolio, partnerships and processes. Read now! In this Issue Will feds mandate Internet routing security? Google fiber: Not yet, but soon Cisco, T-Mobile team up for Wi-Fi Calling for Business system Mobile data plan limits: How much can I download? CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship Chrome OS 'encourages careless computing' Quick tips for speeding up Mozilla Firefox Complex event processing comes to cloud management New report: US 25th in Internet connection speed WEBCAST: IBM A Master Class in Master Data Management A successful business is able to increase revenue, reduce costs and adapt quickly to change. This online presentation explains how IBM® InfoSphere™ Master Data Management can help your organization be more competitive. See how it can better address your changing business requirements and deliver results quickly. Read Now Will feds mandate Internet routing security? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has spent $3 million over the past few years on research aimed at bolstering the security of the Internet's routing system. Read More Google fiber: Not yet, but soon Which American city will receive Google's experimental fiber network? We'll have to wait a while longer to find out, it seems. Read More Cisco, T-Mobile team up for Wi-Fi Calling for Business system Cisco and T-Mobile USA announced Wi-Fi Calling for Business to help ensure reliable voice calls over Wi-Fi as well as seamless roaming of voice and data traffic between Wi-Fi and cellular networks for smartphone users. Read More DOWNLOAD: Diskeeper Get Maximum I/O Performance on Virtual Servers V-locity 2 is only product that automatically optimizes virtual platform I/O bandwidth without causing resource conflicts between VMs. For Hyper-V and VMware ESX. Also eliminates "bloated" free space on thin/dynamic disks. Learn More Mobile data plan limits: How much can I download? With the advent of tiered pricing for wireless broadband service -- and the eventual disappearance of unlimited data plans -- it's more important than ever to understand how much data you can pull down from the Web before reaching your plan limit and being liable for overage charges. Read More CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship Running the internal IT operations of Cisco Systems is a big job not just because of the size of the company -- more than 70,000 employees worldwide and a market capitalization in the range of US$100 billion -- but also because Cisco is continually developing new IT products across a broad range of technologies and is known for rapidly adopting those products for its own use. Read More Chrome OS 'encourages careless computing' The founder of the Free Software Foundation has criticized Google's Chrome OS, claiming it will force PC users to put their data at risk by storing it in the cloud rather than on a machine. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Why Smart Businesses are Turning to Cloud Computing As IT budgets continue to be stretched, cloud computing is enabling CIOs to do more with less. Virtualization, standardization and other fundamental features of cloud computing are lowering the cost of IT, simplifying IT service management and accelerating service delivery. Read More Quick tips for speeding up Mozilla Firefox For the last couple weeks I've been focusing on Windows basics. This week let's move on to a new topic: getting Mozilla Firefox to run more efficiently. Read on if you've ever been frustrated by slow performance in Firefox. Read More Complex event processing comes to cloud management Nastel aims to prevent and predict performance problems with cloud-based applications. Read More New report: US 25th in Internet connection speed The U.S. ranks 25th in the world in average Internet connection speed, a new report says. Read More
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