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	How to keep your network humming If your network has between 1,000 and 10,000 devices and computers, you have a midsized network. Your servers, connections and other resources suffer the same problems as larger networks, but your budget for keeping the network healthy is less than what large enterprises enjoy. We tested six suites that deliver solid network management capabilities in your price range. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More In this Issue Data centers under water: What, me worry? An H-1B jobs database the tech industry may hate Windows chief's comments hint at a desktop resurgence in Windows Blue After Arista and before Cisco/Insieme, Huawei hikes 100G bar again Welcome sign for hijackers on 24-7 for 30% of social networkers Cisco gets tough: Details ruggedized switches for harsh environments Riverbed unveils the Mini-Me of ADCs Is your social network built enterprise tough? Stealthy Web server malware spreads further WEBCAST: Riverbed Best Practices for the Hyperconverged Enterprise Network Hyperconvergence is defined as the state of a network that follows the adoption of modern computing initiatives. Now organizations can embrace each and every modern computing initiative with confidence, and build a hyperconverged enterprise network into strategic corporate asset by implementing WAN optimization best practices. View Now Data centers under water: What, me worry? Given the dire warnings about climate change, some business and IT people are pondering this question: How should data center managers handle the crop of 100- and even 500-year storms, coastal flooding and other ecological disasters that climatologists predict are heading our way? Read More An H-1B jobs database the tech industry may hate The intent of the comprehensive immigration bill's H-1B database is to improve the odds that a U.S. worker will be hired over a foreign one. But its effectiveness may depend on fuzzy terms such as "good faith" hiring, and enforcement. This is where the real legislative battle may be fought. Read More Windows chief's comments hint at a desktop resurgence in Windows Blue Don't give up hope just yet, all ye desktop faithful. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now After Arista and before Cisco/Insieme, Huawei hikes 100G bar again Huawei this week unveiled a high-end upgrade to its CloudEngine core switch, which debuted here at Interop a year ago. Read More Welcome sign for hijackers on 24-7 for 30% of social networkers Online social networkers invite data marauders to compromise their accounts by choosing a convenient but risky option offered by many websites, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Read More Cisco gets tough: Details ruggedized switches for harsh environments Cisco, which wants to expand its clout into the industrial networks used by power-generation utilities to support the electric grid, today announced an expansion of its "smart grid" portfolio with ruggedized and low-latency switches and other equipment intended for use in electric-power distribution systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology EMA - Advanced Visibility into Virtual Data Centers The growing complexity and abstraction that cloud and virtualization bring makes visibility across the enterprise all that more important. Consequently, any new options and capabilities that can help to shine a light into an otherwise obscured part of the IT architecture are most welcome. Read Now Riverbed unveils the Mini-Me of ADCs If you remember the old Austin Powers movies, Mini-Me was a full replica of Dr. Evil in every way. Just as evil, just as cunning, and just as powerful. Today, Riverbed announced a "mini-me" version of its Stingray application delivery controller (ADC). Stingray came into Riverbed through the acquisition of Zeus so, in a way, Riverbed's latest product is Mini-Zeus. Read More Is your social network built enterprise tough? You don't have to look further than the uprisings across the Arab world to recognize the power of social tools, and this transformative power applies to business as well. But for an enterprise social network (ESN) to be genuinely useful, it needs to go beyond the "Facebook for enterprise" model. Read More Stealthy Web server malware spreads further A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why. Read More
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