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	It's strictly logical One of the themes that influences the majority of our newsletters is that the wide spread movement to adopt virtualization and cloud computing has a profound affect on how we plan, design, implement and manage IT resources. In the next few newsletters, we will discuss one of the ways that these movements impact the management of the IT infrastructure. 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 Comcast rolls out metro Ethernet Is OpenFlow a go? New bill resurrects website eviction powers Microsoft, Facebook could use Skype against Google FAQ: IPv6 for enterprise networks Hot products at Interop 2011 IT pro's perfect game puts him in Putt-Putt record book Comcast rolls out metro Ethernet Comcast is expanding its services to medium-sized businesses by introducing metro Ethernet connections at up to 10-Gigabit speed, launching Monday in more than 20 U.S. cities. Read More Is OpenFlow a go? Interop 2011 could have been called The OpenFlow Show. Vendors were hawking OpenFlow switches and controllers, and a lab demonstration on the show floor displayed the traffic management technique and applicability among multivendor switches. Read More New bill resurrects website eviction powers A proposed bill, PROTECT IP, is just the old COICA in disguise. It must not pass! Read More Microsoft, Facebook could use Skype against Google Facebook may not have bought Skype, but the social networking company may still reap the benefits. Read More FAQ: IPv6 for enterprise networks With the availability of IPv4 addresses drying up, enterprise IT managers know they need to move to IPv6, but the migration raises all sorts of questions. In this excerpt from the book 'IPv6 for Enterprise Networks,' the authors answer many of those questions. Read More Hot products at Interop 2011 Read More IT pro's perfect game puts him in Putt-Putt record book Rick Baird, a 53-year-old IT manager at Brady Distributing in Charlotte, N.C., recently accomplished a feat seen only twice in 52 years (and not once since 1979): a perfect round of Putt-Putt golf -- 18 holes, 18 shots. Read More
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