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. Application Delivery Controllers: Build, buy, or both? In a recent newsletter we discussed the 2008 Application Delivery Challenge. Since the challenge contains responses from two equipment providers and a service provider, it's given us the opportunity to revisit the " ... Blue Coat outlines application delivery vision Blue Coat Systems last week aired its vision for providing infrastructure gear that can optimize and secure business applications, content and communications. Its lineup combines application monitoring, WAN optimization ... A new era in application delivery The CIO sends out an e-mail to his IT managers saying that due to the economic downturn, networking costs must be reduced. Company turns bad airflow into good cash flow, green IT For Wade Lowder, paying attention to which way the wind blows has had an enormous effect on his green IT initiative. Mother Nature speeds school district virtualization project The road to virtualization for Michael Riggs was covered with five feet of snow, which it turns out was a blessing. How Ball Corporation minimized operational complexity through WAN optimization Network World recently produced its first IT Roadmap conference of 2008 in Denver and there Jim interviewed Jamie Batmanglidj, senior systems architect for Comcast's Media Center, and Curt Hastings, director of ... Cisco gets serious about application delivery Last week in Dallas, Jim moderated the network and application acceleration track of Network World's IT Roadmap seminar (the next IT Roadmap takes place in San Francisco on Nov. 30). During his presentation, Jim asked ... Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons New Horizons Computer Training is offering a free Microsoft training course worth up to $2,500 to be given to one lucky Microsoft Subnet reader. Deadline for entry is March 31. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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