Choosing vendors to receive an RFI

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	Choosing vendors to receive an RFI One approach that IT organizations can take to choosing which vendors to receive an RFI is to essentially not choose and to send the RFI to every possible vendor. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Client Health Score Solution Brief This solution brief provides an overview of Aerohive's new Client Health Score feature which cuts through volumes of data to show you the overall health of clients in an "at-a-glance" format, then enables you to drill down if you see a specific problem. Read now! In this Issue Cavalier expands SIP services; CLEC merger announced Home working spreads among office workers Who pays for smartphones and services? More private cloud adoption expected in 2011 WEBCAST: Certeon Going Virtual with WAN Optimization Software This Webcast will provide you with the necessary information required to deploy high performance virtualized infrastructures that support remote access to resources and applications. Learn More Cavalier expands SIP services; CLEC merger announced Cavalier has joined the Session Initiation Protocol bandwagon with the recent expansion of its SIP-based services. A competitive carrier, the company services hundreds of thousands of business, consumer and government customers in the Eastern United States using its own fiber optic network. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Home working spreads among office workers Once seen as an eccentric privilege, remote working is now so established that as many as half of UK office workers were doing it this summer, according to a new survey. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Delivering Faster Applications to Any User, Anywhere This guide looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within a WAN Optimization environment. Read More Who pays for smartphones and services? A recent Wireless Alert pointed out a growing trend for organizations to have employees buy their own mobile devices and use them both for personal and work activity. This approach begs a few questions with respect to the enterprise's overall mobile strategy. Read More More private cloud adoption expected in 2011 Next year promises to be a big one for private cloud adoption, according to IDC's research director, Asia Pacific IT services research, Chris Morris. Read More
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