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	Cisco's mass of acquisitions spawned growth, competition Cisco says its success rate with acquisitions is 70% while 90% of them fail for the rest of the industry. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 10 Things to Know about Deduplication You as an IT manager want simple, cost-effective solutions for your complex IT challenges. HP kept this in mind while designing StoreOnce. New technologies, such as deduplication can be difficult to understand but StoreOnce powered by Intel Xeon® processor 5500 series makes it simple. Read More! In this Issue Can you build profitable public clouds out of enterprise tech? IEEE investigates Ethernet bandwidth needs John Chambers on the network More than two decades after inventing the Web, Berners-Lee fights to keep it open Living legends: John Cioffi, father of DSL Living legends: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe Living Legend: Vint Cerf on the Internet and out-of-this-world communications Brocade gives a reality check on IPv6 WHITE PAPER: Avaya Tips to Tailor Your Communications Strategy An IP-based communications system helps businesses streamline voice and data improving internal productivity and customer service, but one size does not fit all. Answer 4 easy questions to find out the best strategies to meet your unique voice and data communications needs. Read Now Can you build profitable public clouds out of enterprise tech? Can I take products and technology that had design points, price structures, and power draw that were aimed squarely at large enterprises when they were built and conceived and repurpose them for the cloud market effectively enough that customers and providers are not impacted? Read More IEEE investigates Ethernet bandwidth needs The IEEE standards body is forming a committee to assess the future bandwidth needs of large organizations and service providers, with an eye toward next steps in Ethernet standards. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Ensuring Disaster Recovery with Equalizer and Envoy In this paper, we'll explore how to use Coyote Point's Envoy to ensure 24x7 availability and fast connections for web content deployed at more than one geo¬graphic location or data center. See this and other independent product reviews available by clicking here. Read More John Chambers on the network The network is more important today than at any time in history. In the last 25 years it has had a transformative effect on the way we all live, work, learn and play but I believe it will deliver even greater change in the next decade than it has in the last quarter century. Read More More than two decades after inventing the Web, Berners-Lee fights to keep it open A look at how the Web's inventor sees his creation more than two decades after its birth. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Why BMC is the ITSM Market Leader Some vendors may force you to make difficult upgrades. Not us. BMC offers Rapid Results implementation services and BMC Remedy OnDemand, a SaaS version of the industry-leading IT Service Management suite. Read more to learn the top reasons why BMC Remedy offers true ITSM with out-of-the-box ease. Read More Today! Living legends: John Cioffi, father of DSL John Cioffi was there when Bell Labs decided in the 1970s to turn the single remaining analog part of the AT&T network - the twisted-pair copper wires that run to each customer's home - into a digital connection; 30 years later he's still at it. Read More Living legends: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe It's hard to overestimate the importance of Ethernet to networking over the past 25 years. When Network World started, the technology had been around a while, but in the last 25 years we have seen Ethernet come to dominate the industry. It has outlasted Token Ring, ATM, FDDI and other competing LAN technologies. It has extended from the LAN into the wide area and wireless realms. Through technologies like switching and QoS controls, Ethernet has become the foundation technology for most networking communications today. Read More Living Legend: Vint Cerf on the Internet and out-of-this-world communications Vint Cerf is one of the most recognized network engineers of all time. He is often referred to as one of the "fathers of the Internet" for his groundbreaking work as a co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. Read More Brocade gives a reality check on IPv6 The looming depletion of Internet addresses has split the networking world into "IPv4 diehards" and "IPv6 purists," but the real needs of businesses lie somewhere in between the views of these extremists, a Brocade Communications Systems executive said this week. Read More
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