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	CenturyLink launches new VoIP services in 7 states While we were busy with our summer miniseries on the evolution of unified communications and convergence, we missed sharing a couple of product and service announcements in August that we will cover in the next several editions, starting with two new VoIP services launched by CenturyLink in seven states. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Performance Metrics and the Cloud Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More In this Issue Acme Packet: 'We're building a signaling system for the Internet' What's the best alternative to Spanning Tree? Samsung reveals Android-based notepad, updates tablet AT&T gets its first LTE tablet What's hot at VMworld this year WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Fine-Tune Your IT Performance Learn how to bridge the gap between application performance management solutions that don't understand the underlying network and network management products that don't know how to map network traffic to applications. Learn more! Acme Packet: 'We're building a signaling system for the Internet' Not familiar with the terms "session border controller" or "session delivery network"? Don't worry. Andy Ory, CEO of fast-growing Bedford, Mass.-based Acme Packet, is more than happy to share his passionate vision of how SBCs and SDNs -- and the emerging era of "opt-in communications" -- will change your business and the world. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches How to make a ''firewall sandwich''. Read now. Learn More! What's the best alternative to Spanning Tree? In a recent newsletter we mentioned the fact that we are driving a series of monthly discussions on the evolution of data center LANs and are including in those discussions six of the leading vendors: Arista, Avaya, Brocade, Cisco, Extreme and HP. The August discussion topic is the best alternative to the spanning tree protocol (STP). We will use this newsletter to summarize some of the discussion Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Workload Automation Challenges and Opportunities This Executive Brief discusses IDC's perspective on how enterprise workload management requirements are changing and highlights the ways that workload automation solutions can address these emerging requirements. Learn More! Samsung reveals Android-based notepad, updates tablet Samsung is expanding its Galaxy family of Android-based devices with the Note, which allows users write directly on the device's screen with a digital pen. The company also introduced the Galaxy Tab 7.7, which comes with a Super AMOLED Plus display, at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin on Thursday. Read More AT&T gets its first LTE tablet AT&T may not have its LTE network officially up and running yet but that isn't stopping the carrier from selling its first-ever LTE-capable tablet computer. Read More What's hot at VMworld this year Read More
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