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	Cisco boosts telepresence system with new collaboration features Cisco will announce improvements on Tuesday to its Jabber IM, presence and video-conferencing product, as well as to its room-size "immersive" telepresence systems, as the networking giant continues to push its way into the workplace collaboration market. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Get more out of cloud with a structured workload analysis Adopting cloud technology is a reasonably easy decision. Figuring out when and how to get the most value from cloud computing is the next—often more challenging—step. Read this white paper to learn how a robust analysis of your workloads can help identify candidates for your target cloud environments. Read Now In this Issue Cisco challengers should be buoyed by data center network market growth, researcher says Can you handle Big Data? Blue Coat ready to execute new game plan in WAN optimization market A Next-generation Enterprise WAN architecture A quick look: The Angry Birds phenomenon HP's server strategy focuses on SSDs, storage bottleneck Cisco challengers should be buoyed by data center network market growth, researcher says IBM CIO discusses Big Blue's BYOD strategy 14 cool, but off-beat inventions WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Essentials for Assuring Network and Application Performance As a network professional, it's not enough to be focused on network failures. You need to be able to assure network and application performance. Read this white paper to evaluate performance monitoring and management initiatives and eliminate blind spots. Learn More Cisco challengers should be buoyed by data center network market growth, researcher says Continued growth in the data center network equipment market has opened a window of opportunity for vendors looking to cut into industry leader Cisco's share, and, for those with the right products, "the time to strike is now," one analyst says. Read More Can you handle Big Data? Big Data is the latest industry buzzword. It's just another way of saying you as a network manager are being inundated with data and you better figure out a way to manage, secure and analyze it. Read More Blue Coat ready to execute new game plan in WAN optimization market After having fallen behind in the WAN optimization market, Blue Coat has made changes to help take on a new strategy, including Monday's announcement of David Murphy as new president and COO. Read More WHITE PAPER: Radware Protecting Critical DNS Infrastructure: What You Should Know DNS is a critical Internet infrastructure as each web transaction involves a DNS service. An attack that disrupts these services will halt all other Internet-based services. Current infrastructure is vulnerable despite carrier and ISP protections. So what can you do to protect your business? Learn More A Next-generation Enterprise WAN architecture Enterprise WANs have changed very little in the last 15 or so years. While price/bit for the Enterprise WAN has improved somewhat over that time, it hasn't increased with Moore's Law as has computing, storage, Internet access, LAN switching … and pretty much everything else associated with IT. Read More A quick look: The Angry Birds phenomenon From space to Rio, the Angry Birds game seems to be out to conquer the world Read More HP's server strategy focuses on SSDs, storage bottleneck In its upcoming ProLiant Gen8 Smart Array, HP uses solid-state drives and a caching algorithm it calls Dynamic Workload Acceleration to address I/O throughput issues. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC Allocating data center energy costs and carbon to IT users This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon allocation strategies and their precision. We show that it is both easy and inexpensive for any data center, large or small, new or old, to get started allocating costs and carbon, but the expense and complexity escalate and ROI declines when excessive precision is specified. Learn More Cisco challengers should be buoyed by data center network market growth, researcher says Continued growth in the data center network equipment market has opened a window of opportunity for vendors looking to cut into industry leader Cisco's share, and, for those with the right products, "the time to strike is now," one analyst says. Read More IBM CIO discusses Big Blue's BYOD strategy IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue's ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company's 440,000 employees over time. Read More 14 cool, but off-beat inventions Everyone can't create the iPad, but every day new inventions hit the streets and their inventors dream of greatness. Not all succeed and not all get much press. That is the case here where we take a look at some cool inventions that may just be a little out the mainstream. Read More
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