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	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. We tested IPsonar and found it makes quick work of documenting the nooks and crannies of enterprise networks. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Cloud as the Next Generation of Service Delivery Exceptional growth in data is driving a need to transform the delivery of services. Understand the "road map" to transform and learn how IBM adds value at every step from virtualization, consolidation, automation, and ultimately cloud computing. Learn More In this Issue Sprint to roll out more than $4 billion in network upgrades MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks How to negotiate better enterprise software deals Juniper acquires virtualization security firm The White iPhone 4 lives! CIO.com Teardown: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg IT networking gear goes green Cisco, BMC co-develop cloud platform for service providers Online holiday spending drops off after Cyber Monday blitz WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG Load Balancers are Dead When looking at feature requirements in front of and between server tiers, too many organizations think only about load balancing. However, the era of load balancing is long past, and organizations will be better served to focus their attention on improving the delivery of applications. Read now! Sprint to roll out more than $4 billion in network upgrades Sprint announces a $4 billion to $5 billion network upgrade focused on cost savings. Read More MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks When it comes to data centers, location counts, at least if your organization does high-speed trading. Read More How to negotiate better enterprise software deals Tough economic times, and the availability of more software licensing models than ever before, have combined to shift more negotiating power into customers' hands. Read More 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! Juniper acquires virtualization security firm Juniper Networks Monday announced it has acquired Altor Networks, a provider of virtualization security for data centers, for $95 million. Read More The White iPhone 4 lives! Behold the interesting journey of the white iPhone 4. Originally expected to launch alongside the black iPhone 4 this past Summer, Apple was forced to delay its arrival time and time again for reasons that remained somewhat murky. Read More CIO.com Teardown: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Our new slideshow series picks apart tech's most infamous CEOs. Today, Mark Zuckerberg, it's your turn. This will be less painful than the movie. We promise. Read More WHITE PAPER: Pareto Networks The Cloud-based Telework Solution By combining a cloud-based model with user-friendly devices, Pareto Networks has pioneered a new approach to remote access with the simplicity, centralized control, visibility, and economies of scale needed for broad deployment to permanent telewokers. Read now! IT networking gear goes green Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up. Read More Cisco, BMC co-develop cloud platform for service providers The Integrated Cloud Delivery Platform, jointly developed by Cisco and BMC, is aimed at eliminating many of the manual steps required to set up and provision cloud computing services. Read More Online holiday spending drops off after Cyber Monday blitz After online spending records on Cyber Monday, holiday e-commerce dropped off sharply later last week. Read More
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. December goodies from the Subnets SharePoint 2010 power user training for three people from Webucator, plus a brand new iPad available from Microsoft Subnet. Five massive libraries on CCNP, security, NX-OS up for grabs on Cisco Subnet. Enter to win! SLIDESHOWS Top IT Turkeys of 2010 Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks for all of the people and things we love, to cherish what's most important to us. But that's for another slideshow. This one's all about taunting the companies, products and people who most resembled a turkey over the last year. So cut me a hockey-puck-shaped slice of jellied cranberry sauce and read on. Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. MOST-READ STORIES Facebook rolls out redesigned profile pages WikiLeaks' only 'friend' on Twitter could become target, too Feds tracking Americans' credit cards in real-time without a warrant Droid 2 phone explodes, bloodies Texas man 2010's biggest security SNAFUs Is Apple repeating the same mistake it made with PCs? Is a next-generation firewall in your future? Verizon's LTE pricing: Good deal or gouge? Microsoft gains cloud security certification ... six months after Google Offshoring blamed in part for IT's jobless recovery
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