SolarWinds blows into virtualization and application performance management

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	SolarWinds blows into virtualization and application performance management The ever-ambitious SolarWinds, a longtime network management fixture, is broadening its reach once again. Read More DOWNLOAD: LogMeIn Take Control of your IT Universe LogMeIn Central lets you access, monitor and automate tasks on all the computers in your system from a single web-based console. Keep your servers up and running. And your productivity level too. Get your free LogMeIn Central trial. In this Issue Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision How to divorce your tech vendor It's not the technology, stupid! Enterprise app stores: A good idea? Patent reform debate returns to Congress Why HP changed its board Too many TLAs Box.net moves cloud storage further into business collaboration Sepaton unveils next-gen private cloud OS IBM rolls out virtual desktop offering Business continuity planning still not widely implemented WEBCAST: IBM How much network downtime can your business tolerate? Join this IBM broadcast to learn how to manage and improve network configuration activity to keep your networks running, in compliance and generating revenue. View Now Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision Businesses are better off deploying multivendor networks, no matter what Cisco and other large network vendors may tell you, according to a recent report from Gartner. Read More How to divorce your tech vendor Follow these 7 tips to protect your IT assets -- and essential company data -- from a service provider breakup gone bad. Read More It's not the technology, stupid! Gibbs doesn't believe that technology is the cause of all of our social ills … Read More WEBCAST: Aruba Networks Connecting the Next Generation of Learners In this short webinar, Fairfax County Public Schools discuss how eTextbooks, tablets & smartphones are creating a new age of e-learning, where digital content is core to curriculum & the wireless network is critical. Learn how they face challenges and provide uninterrupted Multimedia-Grade Wi-Fi. Learn more! Enterprise app stores: A good idea? In theory, an enterprise app store would allow employees to easily download the software they need, but the idea faces many hurdles, a Gartner analyst says. Read More Patent reform debate returns to Congress Qualcomm criticized patent reform efforts taking shape in Congress. Read More Why HP changed its board Hewlett-Packard reshuffled its board this week, adding some prominent tech and business veterans in what may be an effort to escape its turbulent past and give its CEO, Leo Apotheker, some new help. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 5 Key Principles to Redesign IT Infrastructure Wide Area Data Services can bring the distributed enterprise closer together. Read this paper to learn the 5 key principles you can leverage to redesign an environment of any size and provide better support for distributed employees and improved business continuity during a disaster. Read now! Too many TLAs Over the last few years we have written extensively about network and application optimization (NAO). We have also written extensively about application performance management (APM). In the next several newsletters we are going to put NAO and APM in the broader context of application lifecycle management (ALM) and discuss a relatively new discipline – application performance engineering (APE). One obvious observation is that these newsletters have way too many Three Letter Acronyms (TLA). Read More Box.net moves cloud storage further into business collaboration New version of the company's offering begins rollout today, allows IT management as well as collaboration with outsiders. Read More Sepaton unveils next-gen private cloud OS Sepaton announced version 6.0 of its grid-based backup and deduplication appliance, which now supports 64-bit architectures and doubles the throughput of the device. Read More IBM rolls out virtual desktop offering Through its partner program, IBM unveils a virtual desktop offering for small businesses. Read More Business continuity planning still not widely implemented The decades following the advent of personal computing fostered the inevitable march of information from centrally stored and professionally managed safe houses consisting of mainframe and minicomputer clusters to the ad hoc world of impulsively managed devices such as microcomputers, tablet computers and smartphones. Read More
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