| Does Riverbed's Mazu buy make it a stronger rival to Cisco? Riverbed's $25 million acquisition of Mazu Networks adds application performance to its Steelhead WAN optimization gear, as well as access to such high-profile customers as Bausch & Lomb, General Electric, Lockheed Martin and PepsiCo. How far does this acquisition advance Riverbed's market position against Cisco? Join the discussion at Larry Chaffin's blog. Akamai CEO sees opportunity in economic downturn With many companies cutting headcount and costs to weather the economic downturn, Akamai Technologies President and CEO Paul Sagan wants his sales team to spend more time with customers, part of a bid to make sure that its content delivery and edge-hosting services don't end up on the list of expenses they consider cutting. At the same time, he said the recession will push some companies, particularly those in the retail space, to accelerate their shift to the Internet. Portable applications: Network panacea or pest? A class of application portability is emerging that aims to solve a lot of common problems in the corporate network and, not surprisingly, will create yet another level of concern about corporate network security. This capability is enabled by software that is installed on a portable storage device, such as a USB flash drive or an SD memory card, which acts like a "regular" application when running on any computer. Cisco QoS: Link fragmentation and interleaving In this blog, we will discuss link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI). The goal of LFI is to lower serialization delay on slow speed links. Serialization delay is the amount of time it takes a router to serialize a packet onto a WAN link. The goal of LFI is to ensure serialization delay never takes more than 10ms. Corporate SaaS considerations myriad, complex Amid the growing popularity of software-as-a-service, IT managers are faced with a sometimes monumental task of developing big-picture strategies and policies to govern service-based applications as well as defining performance metrics and support. Reader's Choice picks for the best Windows open source projects Microsoft Subnet blogger Ron Barrett has assembled a collection of readers all time favorite Windows open source tools for security, network management, graphics and more. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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