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Network Architecture This newsletter is sponsored by Akamai Tolly Group: Web Acceleration Testing In this whitepaper learn the results behind Tolly's extensive tests pertaining to improving performance for Web applications. Read it today. Network World's Network Architecture Newsletter, 10/11/07 Shop smarter By Jeff Caruso Network World has released phase one of its revamp of the Buyer's Guides, making them more useful than ever for helping IT buyers make decisions. The Buyer's Guides let you make side-by-side comparisons of network gear, across a wide range of categories. The big list of more than 70 categories shows the breadth of what we're trying to accomplish here. In addition to improvements in navigation and just plain looks, we're bringing lots of useful content to the guides, content that's specific to each topic. For instance, if you take a look at the WAN Optimization Buyer's Guide, you'll see links to the most recent market trends reports, buying tips, best practices and even a technical backgrounder (the "How does it work?" section). Executive Guide: Stay ahead of the data growth curve Get real-world advice on how to best deal with the explosion of data across nearly every enterprise today. This informative executive guide offers IT professionals detailed information on new technologies such as ILM and FANs, specific pitfalls to avoid when deploying ILM, as well as solid case studies. Download This Executive Guide There are also links to recent news on that topic, recent reviews, case studies and more, if they are available. Note, too, that on the main page there is a "Wiki Overview" description of what the topic is and its importance. At the top right is a link to "edit description," so if you don't like the description given, you can modify it. Actually, this is linked to our Networking Encyclopedia, which we're also encouraging folks to contribute to, but that's a whole other discussion. Right now just 10 of the buyer's guides have the "enhanced" features, but we're working behind the scenes to fill out more of them over the next few months. Yes, I've been, um, drafted to help with the effort - which I'm cool with, really I am, because we're building something that in the end ought to have real value for readers. Here's the list of buyer's guides that have been enhanced so far. Check them out: * VoIP Security Products * WAN Traffic Optimization and Application Acceleration * Enterprise Wireless LAN Equipment * Unified Threat Management * Messaging Security * Wireless LAN Security * Information Management * Storage Virtualization * Secure Web Gateway * Network Access Control   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World. He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing, and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. Contact him at jcaruso@nww.com This newsletter is sponsored by Akamai Tolly Group: Web Acceleration Testing In this whitepaper learn the results behind Tolly's extensive tests pertaining to improving performance for Web applications. Read it today. ARCHIVE Archive of the Network Architecture Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007