| 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. 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 ... 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. WAN veteran debuts new name, product line Taken from the word "necessary," Ecessa is the new name of a WAN industry veteran that for years has developed WAN link controllers tailored for small and midsize companies. Eliminating the mean time to innocence As is the case with most industries, there is a lot of conventional wisdom that surrounds our industry. By conventional wisdom we mean the set of beliefs that guide how organizations think about Information Technology. The challenge, of course, is that sometimes the conventional wisdom is incorrect and it guides IT organizations in the wrong direction. With that in mind, the next two newsletters will take a look at some of the prevailing conventional wisdom with an eye to whether or not it is indeed accurate. The changing role of the network engineer The last newsletter examined some of the conventional wisdom (CW) that impacts the networking organization. In particular, that newsletter looked at the CW that says that if the performance of an application is degrading, that the cause is the network. As was pointed out in that newsletter, the kind of defensive approach to managing application performance has lead to a new management metric – the mean time to innocence (MTTI). This newsletter will continue the discussion of the CW that impacts the networking organization by looking at the changing role of the network engineer. In particular, this newsletter will look at the CW that says that the role of the network engineer is limited to just designing the network. Router roll call Need an access router? Use our revamped Product Guide to compare access routers and get in-depth Network World reviews. Nortel enterprise biz not on Cisco's plate Nortel is in talks with rivals about selling off its enterprise and wireless businesses but sources say one rival that is not interested in the enterprise business is Cisco. Network Management That Doesn't Suck Based upon the comments I received on the last NMS Sucks blog, this should the shortest blog ever, jokes Cisco Subnet blogger Jimmy Ray Purser. However, he thinks he's come up with NMS winner: the Network Analysis Module 2. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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