WAN optimization is shifting from strategic to tactical

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	WAN optimization is shifting from strategic to tactical WAN optimization is rapidly moving out of the "nice to have" category and is becoming a "need to have" technology. The shift to strategic WAN optimization will raise its visibility with higher-level IT leaders and create some interesting competitive dynamics in the future. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC 5 steps from Scheduler to Enterprise Workload Automation A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT's ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service. Learn More! In this Issue Real estate firm boosts bandwidth, cuts costs with Talari Do broadband consumers get the bandwidth they pay for? Heavy online shopping took a toll on website performance CIO Q&A: How Citrix supports more workers with lower IT budget The need for cloud identity management Cisco rival Brocade hitting stride in Ethernet Mobile shoppers help drive online sales surge on Thanksgiving Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group HD Voice makes steady progress in mobile networks WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! Real estate firm boosts bandwidth, cuts costs with Talari Chicago-based real-estate management company Equity Office ran all its voice and data traffic over an MPLS WAN, but when poor peak-time performance drew complaints from end users, it switched to technology that delivers more bandwidth at half the cost. Read More Do broadband consumers get the bandwidth they pay for? NetForecast examined the FCC's Internet connection performance data to determine if consumers are receiving the bandwidth they pay for. We found that the higher the bandwidth purchased, the better the chance that the bandwidth delivered meets or exceeds advertised levels. Read More Heavy online shopping took a toll on website performance U.S. consumers shopped big on Thanksgiving and the day after the holiday, but many retailers' websites couldn't keep up with the heavy loads. Read More WHITE PAPER: FireEye The new threat landscape Advanced Malware Exposed is a 20+ page ebook providing a broad overview on the major aspects of advanced malware, its underpinnings, its impact on modern business practices, and briefly suggests possible solutions. Read now! CIO Q&A: How Citrix supports more workers with lower IT budget Citrix CIO Paul Martine is the poster child for everything that Citrix markets to other CIOs. Read More The need for cloud identity management Imagine this scenario: a disgruntled IT staffer leaves the company, goes down to the local McDonald's, logs back into the network and starts taking down virtual machines. One of the machines taken down is the Exchange server, virtually killing much of the internal response due to reliance on email as a major response coordination mechanism. Sound far-fetched? Well, it happened in August. Read More Cisco rival Brocade hitting stride in Ethernet Brocade's fortunes are rising in Ethernet switching. After a few initial hiccups following the Foundry acquisition, Brocade is seeing solid traction. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Consolidation without Compromise Pay more to get less consolidation? The Iron Age is over. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x consolidation. For less. Get Consolidation Without Compromise now. Read more Mobile shoppers help drive online sales surge on Thanksgiving What did U.S. consumers do in between servings of turkey, stuffing and pie? Surfed the web and shopped big. Online retail sales jumped 39.3% on Thanksgiving, compared to last year's single-day holiday total. The online shopping feast continued the day after Thanksgiving, driving online sales up 24.3% on Black Friday compared to the same period last year, according to IBM. HOLIDAY PREP: Geekiest holiday... Read More Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group Even though it completed the bulk of a major restructuring earlier this year, Cisco continues to tweak its internal organizational structure, combining its network management group into a larger cloud and systems management technology group, according to an internal Cisco memo. Read More HD Voice makes steady progress in mobile networks This year the number of operators that have implemented HD Voice has almost tripled, and more phones are also compatible with the technology, according to a report by industry organization GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association). Read More
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