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	New Wi-Fi gear aims to wipe out Ethernet edge switches Meru's new Wi-Fi gear combines a trio of powerful 802.11n radios with a battery of new software that together will let enterprises replace wired Ethernet at the network's edge, the company says. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Identity-Aware Networking Download this whitepaper today discover how IT can integrate identity and networking, enabling new business processes and easing regulatory compliance while improving security. Read now! In this Issue Tech debate: Apple iPad or Blackberry PlayBook for the enterprise? Microsoft, Juniper urged to patch dangerous IPv6 DoS hole Can social networking save students from failing in school? Wi-Fi: No slowdown in innovation - yet Smart objects power smart enterprises How should you redesign your data center LAN? Controlling the subversive spreadsheet New jQuery boosts web site speeds CenturyLink angling to become major enterprise broadband carrier Avaya adds switch to VENA lineup WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More Tech debate: Apple iPad or Blackberry PlayBook for the enterprise? The iPad has taken the world by storm, but RIM hopes to parlay its dominant Blackberry enterprise presence into a meaningful tablet advantage with the new PlayBook. Which tablet wins? Read More Microsoft, Juniper urged to patch dangerous IPv6 DoS hole Security experts are urging Microsoft and Juniper to patch a year-old IPv6 vulnerability so dangerous it can freeze any Windows machine on a LAN in a matter of minutes. Read More Can social networking save students from failing in school? Carnegie Mellon University educators have created an app inspired by social network sites like Twitter and Facebook that is designed to bring students together to improve learning. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle How Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Deliver Extreme Java View this webcast to learn why Exalogic and Exadata are the definitive engineered platforms for enterprise application and database consolidation, with added advantage of extreme Java and database performance, unmatched reliability and scalability, and cloud-enabling elastic capacity. Register Today! Wi-Fi: No slowdown in innovation - yet Innovation across the board has always been the hallmark of the wireless-LAN industry, and one might think that, more than 20 years on now, we'd have everything we need at this point. Nope - innovation continues at a remarkable pace. Two examples of this fact surfaced this week, with significant advances from industry leaders Motorola Solutions and Meru Networks. Read More Smart objects power smart enterprises When the PC brought computing to the desktop three decades ago, it began a revolution that's led to a quantum leap in the speed and productivity in the offices of businesses and institutions. Today, smart object technology promises to bring a similar shift in efficiency and intelligence to physical infrastructure, logistics chains and customer relationships. Read More How should you redesign your data center LAN? The last few newsletters have discussed LAN design in general and data center LAN design in particular. This newsletter will discuss an RFI for data center LAN switching. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Solving the Top 4 Network Management Challenges Join us for this webinar, featuring Jim Frey, Research Director from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Heath Newburn, Program Director from IBM as they discuss Netcool's flexible solutions for a complex and dynamic IT environment. Learn More Controlling the subversive spreadsheet Spreadsheets are the ubiquitous Swiss Army knife of corporate computing. Since VisiCalc put the Apple II on corporate desks in the early 1980s, and Lotus 1-2-3 did the same for the IBM PC, it has become impossible to imagine a corporate IT network without a spreadsheet. Indeed it's almost impossible to buy a PC that doesn't ship with spreadsheet software of some sort. Read More New jQuery boosts web site speeds Developers behind the popular jQuery have updated the JavaScript library for speed. Read More CenturyLink angling to become major enterprise broadband carrier For the second time over the last month, Louisiana-based carrier CenturyLink made a major acquisition that will put it in a strong position to become a big-time player in the enterprise broadband market. Read More Avaya adds switch to VENA lineup Avaya this week will extend it data center networking line and architecture with a new top-of-rack switch. Read More
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