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	Adobe Connect Offers New Features Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Web Site Performance for the Speed of Business IT organizations must look beyond raw network speed to increase website performance and deliver the superior online user experiences that drive business. Web performance is a multi-layered problem, encompassing reliability, scalability and mobile reach as well as speed. Learn More In this Issue EU court rejects Cisco's challenge to Microsoft-Skype merger 10 top tests of 2013 Cisco sees SDN, Internet of Things in its 2014 crystal ball A year after ban on loud TV commercials: BETTER? WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Maximizing Your Infrastructure through Virtualization Virtualization continues to be one of the most effective ways to consolidate, reduce cost, and make data centers more efficient. With the HP BladeSystem, you can create a virtualized solution that can be tailored to meet your needs today and tomorrow allowing for growth and changing needs down the road. Read this white paper to learn more. Learn More EU court rejects Cisco's challenge to Microsoft-Skype merger Microsoft's acquisition of Skype is compatible with European Union competition law, the General Court of the E.U. ruled Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Holistic Application Management for Cloud Environments As organizations move their business-critical applications into increasingly complex cloud and hybrid IT environments, they can draw upon IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management capabilities to facilitate application management. Read Now 10 top tests of 2013 Network World tested hundreds of products in 2013, but here are our top 10 tests of the year. In order to make the list, the product review had to be a comparative test of multiple products in a single category and it had to break new ground or deliver fresh insight into an important product area. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Top 10 Reasons to Move to HP Blade Servers Despite flat budgets overall, more than 90% of IT leaders plan to increase virtualization initiatives in 2013. The biggest question for most IT leaders is no longer whether to virtualize, but where to take virtualization next. Discover the benefits of choosing blades for the next wave of virtualization. Learn More Cisco sees SDN, Internet of Things in its 2014 crystal ball Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things, real-time communications on the Web, and SDN-enabled platforms with killer applications for them. Read More A year after ban on loud TV commercials: BETTER? Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the implementation of a federal law that prohibits broadcasters from blasting TV commercials at volumes louder than the programming. Read More
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