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	Will Web-scale servers find a role in the enterprise? An emerging class of extremely low-power servers is helping Internet companies and hosting providers to slash their energy bills, and proponents say they could have a role in the enterprise as well. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Brocade Brocade One: Unifying Network Architecture By removing network layers, simplifying management, and protecting existing technology investments, the Brocade® One™ architecture helps organizations transition smoothly to a world where information and services are available anywhere. To discover a better way to virtualize your data center, visit www.brocade.com/datacenter. In this Issue IBM makes the mainframe young again Finding lost IT with RFID Cisco launches high-end security appliance HP branches out Yahoo's data center chief draws lessons from century-old tech Partnering is very difficult WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Click to Continue IBM makes the mainframe young again IBM recently announced its sixth annual Master the Mainframe Contest for high school, college and university students across the United States and Canada. The contest is designed to get the younger set away from their iPhones and Droids and get involved with some serious mainframe applications. Read More Finding lost IT with RFID Vendors are trying to sell users on the idea that they need to stick RFID tags on IT equipment to keep track of it. Users are interested in this technology because they would much rather automate inventory tracking then go server-to-server with a bar code scanner and clipboard. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp How Efficient is your Storage Environment? Store the maximum amount of data for the lowest possible cost, without compromising performance. The key is selecting a platform that supports thin provisioning, data deduplication and virtualization. Dramatically lower your capacity requirements and costs. Read More! Cisco launches high-end security appliance Cisco today announced a multi-function security appliance that combines a firewall with VPN support, plus an intrusion-prevention system (IPS), to reach speeds up to 20 Gbps with 10,000 VPN connections and 350,000 connections per second. Read More HP branches out HP unveiled new products and services across its networking, security and computing portfolios designed to improve application performance and delivery. Rival Cisco also announced its own branch office application acceleration extensions this week, and the two are expected to compete aggressively in this space with their respective new offerings. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Storage for Windows Environments This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server data along with your Windows files using NetApp storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments. Read More! Yahoo's data center chief draws lessons from century-old tech Yahoo applied lessons learned a hundred years ago to its recently completed Lockport data center in New York, a decision that is saving it money and opening the door to future data center innovations. Read More Partnering is very difficult In our last newsletter we began a discussion of the rapidly eroding Cisco – HP relationship. We will use this newsletter to continue that discussion and to put that failed relationship into perspective and to discuss what all of this means to IT organizations. Read More
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