VoIP services losing ground; Spotting network performance problems

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	VoIP services losing ground Earnings reports have rolled in over the last two weeks, and we've spotted a few key indicators about the progress of VoIP services based on results from U.S. competitors including Vonage, telcos such as AT&T and Verizon, and cable providers such as Comcast and Time Warner Cable. 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 In this Issue Making network performance problems all the more apparent Skype 5.0 for Mac beta gets group video chat, redesign Cloud Computing: Why You Can't Ignore Chargeback 'Net pioneers: Open Internet should be separate WHITE PAPER: Brocade Faster Connections and More Applications and Users Until very recently, there were legitimate concerns about deploying wireless technology. Not anymore. Discover how the 802.11n standard makes the case for Wireless LAN becoming an integral part of the modern enterprise by combining the mobility of wireless with the performance of wired networks. Read now! Making network performance problems all the more apparent Data loss, latency, jitter -- sending your applications out across the public network can be fraught with peril. While this has always been the case, some of today's most popular applications -- performance-sensitive services such as VoIP, videoconferencing and desktop virtualization -- are especially vulnerable to network problems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Vyatta Connecting Users with Software-Based Networking The inability to treat networking workloads with the same agility as other parts of the infrastructure has a huge and compounding effect on the effectiveness and efficiency of the entire cloud. Software-based networking is the most effective way to deploy critical networking tasks while meeting the fundamental business requirements of a cloud. Read now! Skype 5.0 for Mac beta gets group video chat, redesign No, you don't have to adjust your displays, you're reading that right. Skype on Thursday announced a public beta for its Mac client, with an upgrade so significant that it leapt past two full version numbers. The new version brings Skype much more in line with its Windows counterpart in both features and interface. Macworld spoke with Aziza Johnson, Vice President at Kaplow, Skype's PR agency, about what the update means for Skype's commitment to the Mac. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware New Power for Data Center Virtualization Learn how to take advantage of VMware virtualization running on Intel Xeon processor-based servers to improve energy-efficiency performance. Read Now. Cloud Computing: Why You Can't Ignore Chargeback One of the most controversial issues in cloud computing is chargeback: pricing consumed resources on a granular basis. Amazon posts its prices publicly for all to see -- so much for compute, so much per gigabyte sent over the network, etc. Chargeback in the cloud computing arena is the same kind of highly granular pricing associated with use of internal resources. Read More 'Net pioneers: Open Internet should be separate The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow for an open Internet separate from specialized services that may prioritize IP traffic, a group of Internet and technology pioneers have recommended. Read More
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