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	How to wrangle your virtual machines While vendors continue to work toward a single console, or "single pane of glass" tools, customers must choose from products that manage only parts of their environments or focus on specific problems such as the sprawl of unused virtual machines, security or backup. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T SMALL SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS, BIG BENEFITS In this September 2011 report, Forrester Research, Inc. examines the specific application expertise, flexibility and niche solutions provided by smaller, tier two Oracle systems integrators. Read on for an overview of the value associated with choosing an alternative service partner. Click to continue In this Issue Firewall fail: A tale both funny and sad WAN optimization as a service goes mainstream Fridge magnet makes ordering favorite pizza easy as pie 13 common ERP mistakes and how to avoid making them Can you handle Big Data? Arista embeds applications into Ethernet switch Superfast broadband is about more than just fibre, says Brocade Cisco boosts telepresence system with new collaboration features Streaming vs. proxy deep packet inspection Arista 10G switch: Fast and flexible Cisco challengers should be buoyed by data center network market growth, researcher says WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Magic Quadrant Identifies Leaders in WAN Optimization Limited bandwidth, long distances and poor network quality prohibit cost reductions for today's critical IT initiatives. Your IT organization needs WAN optimization that can be deployed anywhere, on any platform, and for the lowest cost. See how the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers can help. Read now. Firewall fail: A tale both funny and sad After assuring me in an email that this episode really did happen - six or seven years ago at a call center in India contracted at that time by Citibank - the teller of the rapidly spreading tale got cold feet and deleted it from his Google+ page. (That never works.) Read More WAN optimization as a service goes mainstream With Akamai's uncharacteristic collaboration with Riverbed to embed Steelhead WAN optimization software into its CDN overlay network, the tide has officially turned -- WAN optimization as a service is going mainstream. Read More Fridge magnet makes ordering favorite pizza easy as pie As a general rule, I'm not a big fan of technology that takes something that's already easy and makes it a little bit easier. Life's not that short. Read More WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Beyond Monitoring – Root-Cause Analysis Some monitoring solutions, such as those based on flow-based data like NetFlow, lack the depth of data to perform true root-cause analysis. Read how Network Monitoring for Analysis lets you know when there's a problem and why there's a problem, and gets you to the root of the problem quickly. Learn More 13 common ERP mistakes and how to avoid making them Implementing an ERP system is among the most expensive, time-consuming and complicated tasks an IT department can take on. The potential for delays and unexpected expenses lurk around every corner. To help you avoid costly mistakes, CIO.com asked IT executives, ERP vendors and technology consultants to provide advice on how to avoid becoming an ERP horror story. 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 Arista embeds applications into Ethernet switch Arista Networks this week rolled out an Ethernet switch designed to improve the performance of latency-sensitive applications like those found in financial trading and high performance computing environments. Read More WEBCAST: Radware ADC Virtualization: How Much Can You Save? See for yourself how much you can save with ADC-VX! Estimate your cost savings online, right now with the ADC-VX ROI Calculator. It's fast and it's easy. With ADC-VX you receive quantifiable cost reductions on: hardware devices; power, cooling and real-estate; and service/management expenses. Check Now Superfast broadband is about more than just fibre, says Brocade The debate around the future of superfast broadband in the UK is focused too much on fibre optic networks, and not enough on the data centre infrastructure supporting those networks, according to networking company Brocade. Read More 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 Streaming vs. proxy deep packet inspection The evolving nature and delivery schemes of viruses, malware and spyware have radically changed the scope and best practices of network security. Data inspection at the application-content level is necessary to protect against sophisticated hacking schemes. In the pursuit of application-level protection, "deep packet inspection" (DPI) has become the preferred approach. Read More Arista 10G switch: Fast and flexible Packing 384 10G Ethernet ports into an 11-rack-unit form factor is only the beginning for Arista Networks' DCS-7508 data center core switch. Read 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
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