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	Cisco readying major core router upgrade? Cisco is reportedly soon announcing a new carrier core router as a next-generation follow on to the 6-year-old CRS-1, and a better competitor to Juniper's T1600. Read More WHITE PAPER: Radware Accelerating Next-Generation Data Center Initiatives In today's competitive business landscape, every business looks for solutions to enable key business drivers, such as increasing business productivity, agility, continuity, globalization, and regulatory compliance. Effective – not to mention – cost effective application delivery lies at the heart of this need. This paper details how to cost-consciously overcome these challenges. Learn More In this Issue Database wars: IBM, Oracle's Ellison trade zingers Oracle-Sun Merger Could Benefit Small Business CA names new CEO Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security WHITE PAPER: Force10 Podcast: The Future of Network Design Virtualization will forever change the way networks are designed and built. Are you ready? Get expert advice on how to prepare for data center networking in the virtualization era. Discover where virtualization is headed on the network; strategic initiatives you must undertake; and more. Learn More Now Database wars: IBM, Oracle's Ellison trade zingers Oracle CEO Larry Ellison criticized IBM's database business during an event held by the company to utline its plans for the newly acquired Sun Microsystems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Network Managed Services: A Cost-Effective Approach to Complexity The new era of networked applications and interconnected business processes yields heightened efficiency and productivity for enterprises. However, these benefits can be realized only with properly managed, scalable networks. Outsourcing network management tasks to a third party allows companies to save time and drive substantially lower total cost of ownership. Learn more! Oracle-Sun Merger Could Benefit Small Business Small business has reason the cheer Oracle's acquisition of Sun, now that it appears OpenOffice.org and MySQL look to do well--perhaps better--under new ownership. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ultrium Best Practices for Long-Term Data Retention Disk-based solutions for data protection have opened up new storage options for organizations. The question should not be whether to choose disk or tape, but rather how to leverage both technologies to deploy a cost-effective tiered-storage architecture. This paper discusses the 5 best practices for backup and long-term data protection. Learn More CA names new CEO Infrastructure software giant CA's board of directors has appointed William McCracken CEO, the company announced Thursday. Read More Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security Cisco, NetApp and VMware announced a project to improve the security of virtualization deployments, with a focus on isolating applications that use the same physical network, server and storage resources in multi-tenant systems. Read More
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