Addressing WAN packet loss – borrowing from the CDN/ADN world

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	Addressing WAN packet loss – borrowing from the CDN/ADN world Using a multi-segment architecture combined with a dedicated core can drastically reduce the impact of WAN packet loss on TCP applications. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare, part of the SolarWinds Family DameWare Remote Support Software – Easy, Fast & Affordable Remotely manage servers, desktops and laptops in minutes! With DameWare you can remotely manage key elements of your infrastructure - domains, workstations, disk drives, & event logs. You need to resolve Windows, Mac & Linux problems for your end-users quickly, and DameWare lets you perform various critical system management tasks – remotely! Download a fully functional, free trial today and discover why thousands of system administrators use DameWare every day! In this Issue INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Cisco makes fourth acquisition in a month How to properly use a load balancer in Cisco's Identity Services Engine Cisco sacrificing one for another? Which EAP types do you need for which identity projects? Boeing uses 20,000 lbs. of potatoes to check aircraft wireless network signals Prediction time: 2013 will not be the year of SDN 10 of the most useful cloud databases Holiday cooking brings major traffic spike to Allrecipes.com RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing. Read More Cisco makes fourth acquisition in a month Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire BroadHop, a developer of network management servers and software for carriers. Read More How to properly use a load balancer in Cisco's Identity Services Engine One of the most commonly asked questions of late is how to properly use a load-balancer with Cisco's Identity Services Engine. Here are some basic guidelines to use when configuring a Load Balancer for the ISE Policy Services Nodes (PSNs). Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now Cisco sacrificing one for another? Just as Cisco is reportedly looking to shed its Linksys home router business, which it acquired in 2003 for $500 million, more speculation surfaces that the company may make an even bigger splash in an effort to energize growth. Bloomberg reports that Cisco's appetite for growth-through-expansion means that storage player NetApp, virtualization partner Citrix and cloud provid Read More Which EAP types do you need for which identity projects? The more interaction I have with customers who are getting started with Identity projects, the more I realize that a simple explanation and comparison of the differences between EAP types is needed. Read More Boeing uses 20,000 lbs. of potatoes to check aircraft wireless network signals Boeing calls it Project SPUDS or rather Synthetic Personnel Using Dielectric Substitution - that is, using sacks of potatoes perched on aircraft seats to test the effectiveness of wireless signal in an airliner cabin. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle A Winning Analytics Formula Watch this Webcast and you will have the opportunity to experience a live demo of the analytics dashboard. It's a great opportunity to see what analytics can do for your business Learn More Prediction time: 2013 will not be the year of SDN Well, it's hard to believe but the year is almost up and there are only a mere couple of weeks until we ring in the New Year. So that makes it prediction time for us industry analysts and I'd like to share mine with you. So, drum roll please… Read More 10 of the most useful cloud databases Big data is becoming a big deal and cloud providers want to be the place where enterprises databases live. Read More Holiday cooking brings major traffic spike to Allrecipes.com It's the busy time of year for Allrecipes.com, which gets 700 million visitors annually, and to accommodate the surge of recipe-seekers, it's necessary to cook up some serious network changes in the data center. Read More
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