The 2011 Application and Service Delivery Handbook

	Cisco adds tools to scale wide-area video | Broadcom chip to accelerate FCoE
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	The 2011 Application and Service Delivery Handbook When we published the first application delivery handbook in 2007 one of the primary goals of the document was to help IT organizations understand that successful application delivery involves more than just making sure that protocols such as TCP and CIFS run well over the WAN. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 10 Reasons to Deploy WAN Optimization for Disaster Recovery Data protection is simple: take everything and copy it somewhere far enough away so that you'll have it in an emergency. The challenge is how to do this in an efficient and reliable way. Learn Riverbed optimizes DR across the widest range of backup mechanisms, with no changes to your software or storage Read More In this Issue Cisco adds tools to scale wide-area video Broadcom chip to accelerate FCoE Cisco should cut 5,000 jobs, analyst says Top tech industry news stories of 2011 -- so far New college grads doing better at the pay window 12 Tech Revolutions That Fizzled WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Adding Visibility to WAN Optimization Too often network professionals find themselves stuck in reaction mode, which can prevent them for strategically planning for positive, long-term benefits. Read this report to learn some best practices for understanding and improving the visibility and performance of mission-critical, networked applications. Read now! Cisco adds tools to scale wide-area video Cisco Systems continued to build its enterprise video infrastructure on Thursday with the ECDS (Enterprise Content Delivery System), a software-hardware platform to ease video management and make distribution of video to remote locations more efficient. Read More Broadcom chip to accelerate FCoE Broadcom's first processor for FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is now coming on the market in network adapters qualified by EMC, backed by claims it is 80 percent faster than any other FCoE component. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Social Media in the Contact Center for Dummies Grasp the opportunities and challenges of working within the new social media market landscape. The book describes the commercial tools, as well as free ones, organizations use to manage the massive stream of information they collect from various social media channels. Read Now Cisco should cut 5,000 jobs, analyst says Networking giant Cisco needs to cut 5,000 jobs, nearly 7% of its total workforce, in August to remain competitive, one Wall Street analyst recommended. Read More Top tech industry news stories of 2011 -- so far Apple, AT&T, Microsoft, Google and others are givens for being among the top newsmakers of 2011. Others will no doubt surprise us as we go along. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel The Changing Role of Mobile Communications in the Workplace Mobile VoIP can help by leveraging Wi-Fi networks. Choosing an experienced technology vendor to deliver mVoIP capabilities can dramatically reduce costs while improving productivity. Read now! New college grads doing better at the pay window Of course, many a recent college grad would be unfamiliar with the concept of a pay window, but that's neither here nor there. According to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), starting salaries being offered to this year's college graduates are up 4.8 percent over this time last year. Those with computer science degrees are doing just fine, too, although... Read More 12 Tech Revolutions That Fizzled Virtual reality and its oversize helmets. The Segway scooter. AT&T's Picturephone from 1964? These tech innovations and more were supposed to change your life. Whoops! Read More
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