| The need to focus Last week in Denver, Network World hosted an event entitled 'IT Roadmap conference.' At that conference Jim moderated two tracks - one track was on Network Management and the other was on Application Delivery. The overall conference was very interactive with a lot of dialogue amongst end users, industry analysts, and vendors. That dialogue highlighted the fact that in 2009 IT organizations need to focus even more than they do in normal economic times. With that in mind, this newsletter and the next two newsletters will discuss the need for IT organizations to focus on a handful of key applications. Establishing SLAs for key applications The last newsletter highlighted the fact that the dialogue at Network World’s recent IT Roadmap conference in Denver emphasized that the challenging economic environment puts pressure on IT organizations to focus even more than they do in normal economic times. With that in mind, this newsletter will begin to outline a process that IT organizations should follow in order to focus on a handful of key applications. Are SLAs worthwhile? The last newsletter discussed the fact that the conventional wisdom in our industry is that IT organizations need to offer service-level agreements internally within their company. That newsletter also pointed out that in many cases the SLAs IT organizations get from their WAN service providers are not that impactful and raised the question of what should IT organizations do differently to ensure that their internal SLAs are impactful. This newsletter will provide a part of the answer to that question./p> Managing BUM expectations The last newsletter discussed the fact that the conventional wisdom in our industry is that IT organizations need to offer SLAs internally within their company. That newsletter also pointed out that in many cases the SLAs that IT organizations get from their WAN service providers are not that impactful and raised the question of what should IT organizations do differently to ensure that their internal SLAs are impactful. This newsletter will provide a part of the answer to that question. 7 reasons MPLS has been wildly successful The IETF Thursday threw a birthday party for one of its most successful standards: Multi-Protocol Label Switching. Venture capitalists not willing to bet against Cisco Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese explains why VC losses from Hammerhead Systems could be the nail in the coffin for other start-ups competing with Cisco. Juniper pounces on Cisco proposals A link on Juniper's Web site encourages buyers with proposals from "Goliath" Cisco to instead consider what can be offered by Juniper's "David". How it works: Net monitoring & management Find out how management software works, and what you need to know to buy the right tool. Networking basics: Switch + wireless router Ron Nutter answers a reader question about connecting a switch to a wireless router. Got a tougher question? Ask it. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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