| Comcast has begun throttling the bandwidth hogs Use too much bandwidth and pay the price. That's the word from Comcast, which has launched a broadband throttling system to prevent power users from hogging its network. Cisco offers free iPhone app to tune into WebEx meetings Cisco is providing a free iPhone application that enables iPhone 3G users to attend WebEx meetings via their Apple mobile devices. ROI potential keeps WAN optimization projects on the table To learn more about how WAN optimization and application acceleration projects are faring in today's economic environment, I asked readers to share their opinions on which IT projects take priority in a budget-constrained environment. A handful of IT suppliers responded with their take on customers’ spending plans, as well as the attributes of WAN optimization technologies that are helping to insulate vendors from spending slowdowns. Five key challenges for branch computing Robin Gareiss, executive vice president and senior founding partner of Nemertes Research, highlights the trends and challenges she foresee for the branch, and her recommendations for addressing them. VCs Need to Get Real or Go Home If the only thing to fear is fear itself, then VCs need to snap out of it because they are cowering in their wine cellars. If you haven't already seen it, a slide show called "R.I.P. Good Times" presented this past fall by Sequoia Capital to CEOs of its portfolio companies shows just how morose the mood among VCs has become. The slide 'de resistance' shows a spiral with a skull at its center warning portfolio companies to put themselves in an indefinite state of suspended cash flow animation or die an agonizing death--and the final slide blares GET REAL OR GO HOME. 5 Steps to Improve Performance and Save Your Job Welcome to the toughest "do more with less" year in memory. Chances are your boss will expect improved application performance while axing your group's budget. And you're probably on edge about keeping your job. Here are 5 steps to improve performance so you can keep your job--and who knows--maybe even buck the trend and get a raise. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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