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	Anatomy of a Cisco data center convert Cisco almost didn't make the cut. NightHawk Radiology Services was ready to hand its data center consolidation project to another vendor until a facility leasing issue delayed its decision. Read More ARTICLE: Extreme Networks From Physical to Virtual to the Cloud The migration from a dedicated infrastructure to a shared and outsourced cloud infrastructure is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. With Extreme Networks "Four Pillars" strategy, Enterprises and Hosting Centers of any scale can approach change in a logical and affordable, stepwise fashion. Read More In this Issue A cost-effective approach for petabyte storage systems Microsoft: VMware customers are 'Windows customers first' Dell, HP to resell Oracle's operating systems How to migrate to Energy Efficient Ethernet Wall Street Beat: Dell case serves as cautionary tale Amazon cloud perfect for building start-ups, says John Seely Brown VIDEO: Intel The Planned Refresh—Simplifying IT Management We asked IT executives what's the best thing about their PC fleet? What they told us may surprise you. The winner: refreshing desktops and notebooks, by a wide margin, 36 to 23%. Learn how a regular refresh and buying fully capable mobile platforms protect and enable your fleet and workforce. Click Here A cost-effective approach for petabyte storage systems The onslaught of unstructured digital content -- video, audio and images -- is taxing storage systems and creating the need to be able to store multi-petabytes, but current industry practices using RAID and replication to accomplish data protection are expensive at this scale. Read More Microsoft: VMware customers are 'Windows customers first' Microsoft targets VMware customers as it prepares for VMworld. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Forrester: IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! Dell, HP to resell Oracle's operating systems Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers. Read More How to migrate to Energy Efficient Ethernet The IEEE's 802.3az standard for Energy Efficient Ethernet is expected to be finalized by next year, but it's not too soon to think about how your IT organization can migrate to EEE. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Powering Through the Economy This white paper explores five specific steps you can take to power your way through these difficult times. Read More Wall Street Beat: Dell case serves as cautionary tale Sometime in the second quarter of 2004, Dell Chief Financial Officer James Schneider was told by the company's EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia) financial director that the unit was having difficulty meeting its US$159 million operating income target. Read More Amazon cloud perfect for building start-ups, says John Seely Brown Start-ups are wasting venture funding on IT infrastructure that will soon be obsolete, Burton Group Catalyst speaker says. Read More
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