Cisco: Annual IP traffic to reach a zettabyte by 2015

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	Cisco: Annual IP traffic to reach a zettabyte by 2015 Cisco recently announced the latest update to its VNI Forecast for 2010-2015. Top line prediction: Cisco's most recent report projects reaching a zettabyte (which is equal to a sextillion bytes, or a trillion gigabytes) of annual IP traffic by 2015. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin™ Compared This ebook will provide the fundamental differences between the Netezza TwinFin® and Oracle Exadata solutions from the perspectives of query performance, simplicity of operation and value. The ebook will help you determine which solutions best meet your business needs and how to achieve optimal results from your data. Read now In this Issue Polycom to buy HP's videoconferencing assets Silver Peak unveils multi-gigabit WAN optimization appliance Reflections on the CCIE Voice Lab Why there's no Nobel Prize in Computing Web, Internet inventors have cleaned up on awards 2011 timeline of major high tech awards: Cryptographers, Unix pioneers lead the way RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ShoreTel ShoreTel's #1 rated IP phone system blasts competition Say "goodbye" to the costly support and service of complex systems, and say "hello" to the lowest TCO in the market. ShoreTel's all-in-one system with integrated UC is so easy to deploy, scale and use, that year after year IT pros vote it #1 in Nemertes Research. Click to get the report. Polycom to buy HP's videoconferencing assets Polycom has agreed to acquire the assets of Hewlett-Packard's Visual Collaboration business, including its Halo videoconferencing products and managed services, as part of a broad partnership for unified communications. Read More Silver Peak unveils multi-gigabit WAN optimization appliance Silver Peak today announced the release of its fastest WAN optimization appliance, which offers up to 2.5Gbit/sec of bandwidth for disaster recovery as well as cloud and virtual environments. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer FREE 30-day trialware Bring your largest and most mission-critical server operations to a new level of efficiency and reliability. Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer provides uncompromising peak performance continuously and without requiring downtime or further management. Learn more. Reflections on the CCIE Voice Lab Last year I made my first attempt at the CCIE Voice Lab. After that attempt I wrote an article on it for Pearson IT Certification. Recently, they took the article I wrote and created a video around it. If the CCIE Voice Lab is in your future, I believe this 8 minute video is well worth taking the time to watch. All the best in your studies! Read More Why there's no Nobel Prize in Computing When Nobel Prizes are dished out each fall, the most accomplished professionals in computing, telecom and IT have usually been left out in the cold. That's because there is no Nobel Prize for these fields, and it's unlikely there will be one any time soon. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Transaction Tracing through Complex Web Applications In this Quest white paper, learn about the components of a transaction as they cross various application domains. Then, discover the difficulty in connecting transaction components for monitoring, why continuously monitoring is key and how a third-party solution simplifies the challenge. Learn more. Web, Internet inventors have cleaned up on awards The inventors of the World Wide Web and the Internet sprung their ideas on the public more than two decades ago - and the accolades haven't stopped since. Read More 2011 timeline of major high tech awards: Cryptographers, Unix pioneers lead the way The public key encryption scheme developed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the mid-1970s - and influenced by the work of Ralph Merkle - has now made them all pretty darn famous some three-plus decades later: All three have been inducted in 2011 into the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Read More
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