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	Cisco's credibility problems As Cisco grapples with its own internal issues - getting back to basics with routing and switching, while streamlining its product lines and investments to regain lost profitability and credibility with investors - it's got some hefty external ones as well. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Windows 7 Migration Made Easier with Desktop Virtualization Windows 7 presents both an opportunity and a challenge for enterprises and their IT organizations. . Unless IT can simplify the adoption process, the enterprise faces potential long term disruptions to IT and end users alike. Read this whitepaper to learn how desktop virtualization offers a better way forward. Learn More In this Issue What US-based Open Source Vendors Need to Know About Europe "The More the Merrier" Doesn't Apply to Management Tools Am I Raining on the Cloud? Employers paying up for scarce IT talent World IPv6 Day Results: New Internet Protocol Proves It's Ready Ending the Microprocessor Wars: The Cloud Floats In WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobility KnowledgeVault The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault provide expert guidance, peer advice, survey results and best practices to help you protect your mobile infrastructure. From determining a policy for employee-owned devices and data encryption to supporting the six major mobile operating systems, securing mobile devices and data is a top priority. View now What US-based Open Source Vendors Need to Know About Europe Before your company makes the decision to expand into a major new market, you need to do some serious prep work. In this article, open source marketing guru Sandro Groganz offers a six-point plan to help American open source companies that are ready to open new markets in Europe. Read More "The More the Merrier" Doesn't Apply to Management Tools You may be yearning to buy management tools from yet another vendor, but NetForecast's recent survey of performance management best practices and their results shows that using more management tools is not necessarily better. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Tips to Tailor Your Communications Strategy An IP-based communications system helps businesses streamline voice and data improving internal productivity and customer service, but one size does not fit all. Answer 4 easy questions to find out the best strategies to meet your unique voice and data communications needs. Read Now Am I Raining on the Cloud? While sometime it sounds like the cloud is going to usher in world peace, I have to be skeptical at times. Don't get me wrong; I see a lot of benefits from cloud computing. But using the cloud means you have to be able to access it! Read More Employers paying up for scarce IT talent IT job hunters are moving into the driver's seat. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Importance of Permanent Link Testing This white paper is the joint effort of 2 industry leaders of high speed infrastructure cabling and testing, Panduit and Fluke Networks. This technical paper provides a thorough analysis and review of different testing techniques and their associated benefits for high speed permanent links. Learn More Today! World IPv6 Day Results: New Internet Protocol Proves It's Ready It was a day where IPv6 could prove to the world that it was ready for duty as the Internet Protocol successor to IPv4. Those are pretty big shoes to fill and IPv6 has had some stumbles in the past decade. This article covers what was learned by this big Internet experiment. Read More Ending the Microprocessor Wars: The Cloud Floats In A shift away from running apps on the mobile device to running these in the cloud means that the microprocessor is now effectively commoditized. Read More
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