Cloud-based IT services gaining steam

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	Cloud-based IT services gaining steam It is easy to suggest that one of the leaders of the first wave of public cloud computing was salesforce.com. A few years ago, the Salesforce CRM solution was one of a small number of enterprise applications that companies were just beginning to acquire from a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0 Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now! In this Issue Networking chief Haas leaving HP Intel and Ubiquisys to develop small base stations Optimizing Bandwidth for Fun and Profit IBM improves Sametime platform Citrix expands virtualization, from the data center to the iPad WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now! Networking chief Haas leaving HP Marius Haas, who led Hewlett-Packard's networking business through the 3Com acquisition that made it a broader competitor to Cisco Systems, is leaving the company for investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Read More Intel and Ubiquisys to develop small base stations On Wednesday, femtocell maker Ubiquisys announced an agreement with Intel to develop a new generation of small base stations that will allow operators to push content to the edge of their networks. 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! Optimizing Bandwidth for Fun and Profit Bandwidth optimization is now a mainstream technology with more than 61% of companies using the technology to improve application performance and/or reduce bandwidth requirements. Still, some IT architects ask, "why can't I just use QoS technologies like low latency queuing or class-based weighted fair queuing to meet application performance requirements?" Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Schools Graduate to Enterprise Class Wi-Fi Online multimedia and interactive educational applications are invading the classroom and prompting schools to take a fresh look at what's possible with the latest in wireless LAN technology. Read now! IBM improves Sametime platform IBM recently released enhancements to its IBM Sametime platform with improvements that deliver native and third-party audio and video conferencing in browser-based meetings, and extend unified communications to new mobile devices. Read More Citrix expands virtualization, from the data center to the iPad Citrix products designed to let workers access desktops and applications from any device. Read More
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