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	Latency concerns not stopping overseas clouds Concerns about latency and questions about security and regulatory issues aren't stopping CIOs from moving key systems to the cloud, even if it means using apps hosted in data centers on the other side of the globe. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade The CIO Challenge CIOs can elevate the role of IT in their organizations by enabling new business opportunities with innovative cloud technologies. Read now! In this Issue WAN performance in a cloud-based world? Cisco caught off guard by switching hit Had a few too many? Your car's gonna know Remote IT lets docs care for ICU patients from a distance Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking ITU, IETF push dueling standards on MPLS features The Black Art of SLAs IBM products aim to speed up, automate virtualization IE wins, Firefox loses as Internet population shifts Zyrion's Traverse: BSM done beautifully WHITE PAPER: HP Connect in Real Time with Video Collaboration For video collaboration to work seamlessly, you need an integrator for all of the systems and services required for a robust Unified Communications and Collaboration environment. Learn how HP Services with Polycom can help to deploy world-class, standards-based video collaboration that extends from the desktop to the boardroom. Read Now WAN performance in a cloud-based world? How does one optimize WAN performance in a cloud-based world? Thierry Grenot, CTO of Ipanema Networks, weighs in. Read More Cisco caught off guard by switching hit The product transition currently redefining Cisco's business took the company by surprise, CEO John Chambers said during the company's partner conference in New Orleans this week. Read More Had a few too many? Your car's gonna know In the not-too-distant future, your car may be able to detect the driver's blood alcohol concentration and, if it's over the legal limit, prevent the car from being started. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Using BPM and Business Analytics Together How do organizations become agile enough to proactively respond to all this change? They require processes, analytics and structures that give them real-time situational awareness into occurrences both inside and outside the organization. Read now! Remote IT lets docs care for ICU patients from a distance When Leo DeFault had what should have been a fatal heart attack almost three years ago, it was an alert bystander who knew CPR that kept him alive. But once he was at a community hospital, it was a critical care physician -- who was 25 miles away -- who saved his life through a remote IT system. Read More Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking Extreme Networks is going mobile. The company today wheeled out a roadmap that will steer the company's product line toward mobile device and application access, availability and management support. Read More ITU, IETF push dueling standards on MPLS features The Internet Engineering Task Force is slamming a decision by the International Telecommunication Union to pursue its own standard for troubleshooting and fault detection in service-provider networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Enterasys Networks Designing Today's Data Center This white paper establishes guidelines on how to design, build and operate a cost-effective and resilient data center networking infrastructure. It focuses on the requirements for next generation data center networks and provides an overview of the differentiated solutions provided by Enterasys. Learn More The Black Art of SLAs IT buyers frequently tell us of their struggles to craft an SLA for their WAN and wireless service contracts. Among their key challenges are responsibility for identifying non-performance and remediation mechanisms. Read More IBM products aim to speed up, automate virtualization IBM is aiming to make it easier for enterprises to manage their virtualized environments, with new features in the Tivoli Provisioning Manager and other software products. Read More IE wins, Firefox loses as Internet population shifts Geographic shifts in Internet usage caused Firefox to lose browser share in February to the benefit of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, while Google's Chrome browser inched up. Read More Zyrion's Traverse: BSM done beautifully Network monitoring has always been a complex task for enterprises but with the emergence of virtualization and cloud computing, the job got orders of magnitude harder. And just to make it even more complex, the objective is no longer just network device management but rather the much more complex goal of business service management (BSM). Read More
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