Gauging the volume; are you ready to flatten your data center network?

	2011 tech priorities: Are you ready to flatten your data center network? | Juniper targets cloud, mobile Internet in 2011
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	Gauging the volume The hockey stick growth projections for data storage and network traffic don't look like they will level off anytime soon. So plan to stock up on disks (or get smarter about data management) and get ready to install fatter network pipes (or get more serious about WAN optimization). Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell & Intel Wanted: An Ultra-Efficient Enterprise Data Center Make the data center efficient. That's the mandate of late for enterprise IT. Here's how to do it: Start with a simple, standardized infrastructure, add flexibility, solid management and support as well as strategic spending decisions, and you're on your way. Find the details here. Read More! In this Issue 2011 tech priorities: Are you ready to flatten your data center network? Juniper targets cloud, mobile Internet in 2011 Cisco to expand networking role in video content world How to take your enterprise Wi-Fi network to the next level The complicated new face of personal computing How management technologies will fulfill cloud and virtualization promises VEPA: An answer to virtual switching How do mobile versus PC browsing experiences compare? WHITE PAPER: Symantec Root Causes of Inefficiency in Data Protection Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) white paper examines how Backup Exec 2010 increases storage optimization, reduces capacity requirements and eliminates redundancy in data protection processes. Read Now. 2011 tech priorities: Are you ready to flatten your data center network? As virtualization and the movement of virtual machines around the infrastructure accelerates, so too must your network. Read More Juniper targets cloud, mobile Internet in 2011 Juniper's strategic initiatives in 2011 and beyond are cloud computing and the mobile Internet. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks The Small Risk, High Reward Infrastructure With F5, IT can deliver a flexible blend of physical, virtual and cloud environments without risking application performance and reliability. Read now! Cisco to expand networking role in video content world Google and Apple, among others, are creating technologies to bring online and on-demand video content to TVs and other devices for mass consumption, so it should come as no surprise that Cisco Systems, the king of networking, is entering the game. Read More How to take your enterprise Wi-Fi network to the next level With 802.11n, enterprise Wi-Fi networks are shifting from convenient to critical. They're becoming the preferred and primary network access for users – which means IT groups have to rethink how they deploy, secure, manage and run the wireless LAN. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Application Delivery 2.0 Handbook This comprehensive handbook offers guidance on ensuring application delivery with a systematic approach. Read More The complicated new face of personal computing New platforms such as tablets and smartphones, loads of new virtualization technologies, and the need to access the desktop from any device, anywhere, forever change personal computing. Read More How management technologies will fulfill cloud and virtualization promises Being that we're at the start of a new year and all, I thought I'd launch the 2011 newsletter by sharing predictions from a variety of network and systems management vendor executives. Read More VEPA: An answer to virtual switching Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) moves switching out of the server back to the physical network and makes all virtual machine traffic visible to the external network switch, freeing up server resources to support virtual machines. Read More How do mobile versus PC browsing experiences compare? Compuware Gomez did a commendable thing when it designed the Retail User Experience (UX) Index we described on December 2nd -- it applied the same two-second performance response time threshold to the experience of a user accessing a retail site from a PC as well as a mobile device. Read More
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