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	Coyote Point lightens the load at Wet Seal Greg Maxwell, E-commerce development manager at Wet Seal: "I probably started using Coyotes in '94-'95, before I came to Wet Seal, as one of the lowest-cost alternatives for providing a front-end service for a lot of small Web servers, which meant we didn't need to buy a big Web server. Since then, I've pretty much used Coyote for all my front-end load balancing. It provides the ultimate flexibility for handling high demand for a poor-performance Web application." Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense Essential Information Protection Successful organizations depend upon their ability to collaborate, communicate, and share information online. This paper explains how Essential Information Protection is designed to help organizations make the most of their IT security investments. Read More In this Issue Silver Peak WAN optimization delivers ROI The truth about broadband speeds Firms fail to assess effect virtualization has on networks National broadband plan: What's in it for businesses? Comcast, ISC offer IPv6 transition tool Virgin ups the broadband ante with 200Mbps service Lack of IT skills keeps virtual deployments small WHITE PAPER: HP ProCurve Break Free from Proprietary Networking See why Gartner and the network industry have positioned HP as a leader and the fastest-growing enterprise Ethernet LAN networking vendor. HP's commitment to industry-standards can help organizations optimize their network. Read now. Silver Peak WAN optimization delivers ROI Scott Engel, director of IT infrastructure at Transplace: "We're doing near-real-time replication between our two data centers, in Dallas and Lowell, Ark., and we're seeing anywhere from three to five times reduction – and sometimes as high as 28 times -- on that traffic volume using the Silver Peak product. We have a single DS-3 today and we're able to push more than 1 terabyte of data through it daily." Read More The truth about broadband speeds Suppose you went to the supermarket to buy a pound of steak for dinner and when you got home you noticed that the package seemed very light. So you went back and complained to the manager, only to be told that the label says "up to 1 pound," and you're stuck with it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avocent Four tools for successful power reduction. Discover how you can reduce energy consumption in the data center and on the desktop for significant cost savings. This independent report outlines the best approaches to developing, deploying and managing an effective power management solution, as well as tools for successful power reduction. Read now! Firms fail to assess effect virtualization has on networks Companies are failing to assess the impact virtualization has on their networks says Computacenter. Read More National broadband plan: What's in it for businesses? We've heard a lot about how the Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan aims to provide 100 million U.S. households with 100Mbps broadband connections so far, but precious little on how it will affect enterprise users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! Comcast, ISC offer IPv6 transition tool Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium have released open source software to help carriers and enterprises migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More Virgin ups the broadband ante with 200Mbps service Virgin Media is to demonstrate 200Mbps service. Read More Lack of IT skills keeps virtual deployments small Forrester Consulting conducted a study commissioned by IT management software maker CA to learn how IT organizations are adopting virtualization and if challenges hinder the technology's expansion in enterprise companies. Read More
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