9 warning signs of bad IT architecture

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	9 warning signs of bad IT architecture Chances are someone at some point spent countless brain cycles planning your organization's IT architecture before handing the grand plan off to someone else to build it out, and then to someone else to maintain it as your computing environment inevitably grew. And, chances also are, somewhere along the line, best intentions faded in the face of expediency, departmental politics, and general mismanagement, eroding what was once a coherent architecture management strategy into an ongoing series of independent, case-by-base decisions about each technical component. How do you know if your organization has strayed from the path? Here are nine warning signs that bad IT architecture has taken hold of your organization. Read More WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Network/Cloud Security & Business Continuity eGuide Network security today means much more than simply building a perimeter around the enterprise network to defend from threats. With cloud-computing models becoming more popular, enterprises are extending corporate data and applications outside the four walls of the data center. Learn More! In this Issue Cisco router rival invests in Cisco video foe Brocade struts its SDN stuff 10 Social CRM Tools to Help You Keep Tabs on Your Customers Made in America, who is manufacturing in America? Is EVERYTHING made in China? Tech's $20 million CEOs Is your dirty, nasty office making you sick? Supercomputer to connect to 400PB of storage via Ethernet WHITE PAPER: HP Migrate Your Data Center to Open, Standards-based Networks Discover the merits of a dual-vendor strategy for data center networking, and learn how to migrate your data center to open standard HP networks. This document discusses the planning and deployment phases that are an integral part of the Plan, Deploy, Install, and Operate (PDIO) model. Learn more. Cisco router rival invests in Cisco video foe Juniper has invested in Vidyo, a competitor of Cisco's in videoconfencing. Juniper is a strategic investor in Vidyo through its Junos Innovation Fund, which invests in software start-ups targeting emerging markets. Read More Brocade struts its SDN stuff The concept of "software defined networks" (SDNs) has become all the rage in networking over the past year or so. Now, I do believe that the "mouthshare" for SDNs far exceeds the amount of money being spent on it, but it's clear, from the inquiries I get from network managers trying to understand what SDNs are and if they're applicable for their organizations, that SDNs will be here to... Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Warp Speed: The Nuts and Bolts of Web Acceleration Solutions Enterprises are quickly realizing that they can't achieve the web performance they need by simply deploying their web server on a high-speed network. Improving page rendering speeds incrementally through content caching is no longer enough. It's time to look for dramatic performance gains by applying optimization techniques right at the browser. Learn More! 10 Social CRM Tools to Help You Keep Tabs on Your Customers These 10 social customer relationship management (CRM) applications can help your organization monitor, manage and respond to what your customers are saying about you on popular social media sites (and elsewhere). Read More Made in America, who is manufacturing in America? Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Your Network is Heading for Traffic Chaos The increased use of virtual machine (VM) mobility and new application deployments is significantly increasing traffic levels between servers in the data center. This Gartner report provides recommendations for overcoming these challenges prevalent in most traditional data center networks. Learn more. Is EVERYTHING made in China? It can be astonishing the sheer amount of things that are Made in China. As you might expect, the country puts out all manner of electronics but there are myriad other products, from bioethanol fuel, sex dolls, LED readouts, airplanes and dumplings – just to name a few things. Here we take a look at a few of the interesting things Made in China: Read More Tech's $20 million CEOs Eyebrow-raising executive compensation shows no signs of abating, and Network World's analysis of CEO pay finds the tech/telco industry is no exception. Read More Is your dirty, nasty office making you sick? A study out today confirms what some people may have suspected - your office environment is a dirty place - and we're not just talking about the usual suspect: the bathroom. According to Kimberly-Clark Professional the place where US workers eat and fix their lunch topped the list of office germ "hot-spots," with sink and microwave door handles found to be the dirtiest surfaces touched by office workers... Read More Supercomputer to connect to 400PB of storage via Ethernet The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has chosen a massive tape library and disk array system to support of Blue Waters, one of the world's largest supercomputers. Read More
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