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	New leaders emerging in WAN optimization market In yet another sign that growing revenues are reshaping the vendor outlook in the network management sector, Gartner recently named vendor Silver Peak one of the leaders in its magic quadrant for the WAN optimization market. Read More WEBCAST: VMware & NetApp The Key to Successful Disaster Recovery Paula Fortin of Green Mountain Power explains how disaster recovery of their IT environment, based on VMware and NetApp technology solutions, was rapidly recoverable during Hurricane Irene. View Now! In this Issue MacIT: IT groups grapple with managing fast-growing iOS devices Must-have iPhone/iPad apps for Super Bowl XLVI 6 security companies to watch Internet group seeks wider input for BIND 10 Systems management uses social media-like messages to enable better decisions Mozilla okays Firefox 10 launch this week Tips and tricks for upgrading your Android phone Three warning signs of a user-unfriendly app F5 says Big-IP is a network firewall CIOs disconnected from business execs WHITE PAPER: VMware & NetApp Drive IT Efficiency with a Private Cloud Read this success story and find out how NetApp and VMware provided Magna International with a cost-efficient solution. Read Now! MacIT: IT groups grapple with managing fast-growing iOS devices Apple recently has improved its mobile device management features, but IT groups are discovering a new set of challenges when they start to move to larger numbers of iOS devices, MacIT conference attendees confirm. Read More Must-have iPhone/iPad apps for Super Bowl XLVI All the iPhone and iPad apps you'll need for the big game. Read More 6 security companies to watch This group of security companies includes several that want to capitalize on technology ideas that were originally devised to serve communities of special interest but could now take on a wider cybersecurity role. Read More WHITE PAPER: Juniper 3-2-1- Data Center Network Architecture Escalating traffic levels, increasing numbers of applications, and more users have created the need for a data center that can keep pace with demands. Unfortunately, today's data center network is ill-equipped to handle the load, resulting in poor performance. Read how to simplify your network. View Now Internet group seeks wider input for BIND 10 The Internet Systems Consortium is looking for a few more good programmers to bring the next generation of its open source BIND DNS server software to fruition. Read More Systems management uses social media-like messages to enable better decisions Wouldn't it be cool if our computer systems could talk to us like HAL in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"? Instead we get complex and nearly undecipherable messages that read like pure log files. Startup company Nodeable aims to help your cloud-based systems communicate with you in a much more human language. Think of it as tweets from the cloud to provide you with status updates. Cool! Read More Mozilla okays Firefox 10 launch this week Mozilla developers have given the green light to ship Firefox 10 on Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan What to Look for in Smart Card Readers Deploy servers with PKI authentication without sacrificing convenience or security. Learn how modern KVM switches with smart card capabilities go beyond simply integrating card readers as an additional peripheral at the KVM workstation, but rather make necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. Learn More Tips and tricks for upgrading your Android phone The biggest problem with the Android platform has been how slowly many phone makers release the latest version of the OS for their older models. It's also not unusual for them to never do so. (A company may not want to spend resources on phones they no longer sell; or, they and the carrier for a particular model may not agree on when to provide an update.) Read More Three warning signs of a user-unfriendly app A user-friendly interface is paramount if you want employees and external users to adopt an enterprise application. But what, precisely, makes an app user-friendly? That's a complicated science, with detailed books and research papers devoted to it. But if your app has any of the following three elements, that's probably not a good sign. Read More F5 says Big-IP is a network firewall F5's Big-IP application delivery controllers are now certified as network firewalls, meaning they can replace separate network firewalls businesses might already have in place to meet regulators' requirements. Read More CIOs disconnected from business execs CIOs and their fellow executives have conflicting priorities on cost and competitors, says our 2012 State of the CIO survey. Read More
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