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	AT&T coverage a concern, not speed ABI Research has a provocative message for AT&T: Just because you have the fastest 3G network, that doesn't make it the best. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Quadruple VMs without Increasing NICs IDC: As companies roll out blade-based virtualization deployments, many find that they have limited choices for network I/O. Virtual machines not only help bring more applications onto each server but also place additional demand on network I/O. Learn to adress these challenges. Read now. In this Issue Reasons for supporting IPv6 continue to pile up Lost in the cloud: What happened to my data? High atop Ball State University with Wimax IT cost management and the cloud The management imperative: Change Fast mobile broadband costs vary greatly worldwide Ex-SAP CEO resurfaces at cloud SCM vendor WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Understand the Network Impact of 802.11n As performance and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission- critical applications. This paper outlines the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n. Read More! Reasons for supporting IPv6 continue to pile up Network and Web site operators are coming under increasing pressure to support IPv6 as more market indicators point to the rapid depletion of addresses for IPv4. Read More Lost in the cloud: What happened to my data? It's tax time, and you will probably need numbers from your financial institution to complete your tax return. If you have gone paperless you may be chagrinned to learn that you can't always get needed information from your bank's or broker's website because the cloud forgets stuff. Peter has chosen to forego paper statements, and like Kermit the frog he has found "it isn't easy being green." Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Tolly Group Performance Report Tolly Report: "Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP" shows you how Citrix NetScaler beat F5 in head-to-head tests - providing 3X faster Web traffic, lower latency and higher throughput. Learn More! High atop Ball State University with Wimax Ball State University student Ryan Lasure, atop a 10-story building on campus, explains the Wimax usability project he's involved in at the school. He says 150 students have been given Wimax USB dongles to provide them with free broadband wireless, and in return the school is measuring their reaction to the speed, distance (works as far away as about 2 miles from campus) and software being used, among other things. Read More IT cost management and the cloud Apptio updates promise to help enterprise IT better understand the true cost of adopting cloud services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart But Timely This video highlights the Oracle Accelerate program - a group of pre-configured, tested solutions that combine Oracle enterprise applications and rapid implementation tools with industry-specific bundles. The program reduces the time, complexity and cost of deploying Oracle and is implemented by highly trained partners. Learn More. The management imperative: Change One of the many benefits of server virtualization is that it is now possible to move virtual machines between servers either in the same or in disparate data centers. Read More Fast mobile broadband costs vary greatly worldwide Operators all over the world are rolling out mobile broadband services that offer 21M bps using HSPA, but what they charge customers differs dramatically, from $75 per month in Australia to just $25 monthly in Austria. Read More Ex-SAP CEO resurfaces at cloud SCM vendor Former SAP CEO Léo Apotheker has been appointed to the board of GT Nexus, maker of on-demand SCM software, roughly two months after his departure from the ERP giant. Read More
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