The impact of cloud balancing on application delivery

	PSTN: Ending the copper lifeline | Moves afoot in U.S., elsewhere to end PSTN copper lifeline
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	The impact of cloud balancing on application delivery This is the second of two newsletters that is focused on the impact that cloud computing is having on application delivery. With that objective in mind, this newsletter will look at the pros and cons of cloud balancing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Motorola Less Cost and Congestion. More Performance and Trust Giving brainpower to WLAN access points results in: • Intelligent direct routing • Network-aware access points that can easily reroute around overloaded components • Detection of RF interference • AP flexibility and options from AP 621 to AP 7181 Read now! In this Issue PSTN: Ending the copper lifeline Moves afoot in U.S., elsewhere to end PSTN copper lifeline FCC: Broadband delivers close to advertised speeds Former FCC, Microsoft exec to be next U.S. CIO Corporate cybercrime costs skyrocket WHITE PAPER: Riverbed IT Consolidation Hazards Providing central services means more bandwidth between data centers and remote users. This ESG paper highlights new research on IT initiatives, how to avoid the common pitfalls of consolidation, and alternatives to ensure application performance, even for remote and mobile users, does not suffer after an IT consolidation. Read now! PSTN: Ending the copper lifeline In what may be a preview of what will happen in the United States, the Australian telecommunications giant Telstra late last month released its plan to bring a close to the old telephone world. Telstra announced it will decommission its copper customer access network and stop offering fixed line telephone service to retail customers after July 1, 2018. 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 Moves afoot in U.S., elsewhere to end PSTN copper lifeline In what may be a preview of what will happen in the United States, the Australian telecommunications giant Telstra late last month released its plan to bring a close to the old telephone world. Telstra announced it will decommission its copper customer access network and stop offering fixed line telephone service to retail customers after July 1, 2018. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed High-Performance Network Traffic Recording See Cascade Shark in action. This Webcast demonstrates how the only network analysis software fully integrated with Wireshark, the world's most popular network protocol analyzer, is capable of sustained, multi-gigabit per second recording of network traffic without packet drops. See how easy this powerful tool is to use. Learn more! FCC: Broadband delivers close to advertised speeds An FCC study says broadband providers are delivering close to advertised speeds. Read More Former FCC, Microsoft exec to be next U.S. CIO The White House today is expected to announce that Steven VanRoekel, managing director of the Federal Communications Commission and a former Microsoft executive, will succeed Vivek Kundra and become the nation's second CIO. From a New York Times story posted this morning: Read More Corporate cybercrime costs skyrocket Security threats such as malware, insider attacks, phishing, botnets and a host of other problems are costing large corporations more money to handle. Read More
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