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- Cisco Wide Area Application Services Optimization: Enhance IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Performance
- Cisco WAAS is a multilayer application acceleration and WAN optimization solution that improves application performance over the WAN, thus enabling application and server centralization into fewer data centers. Cisco WAAS has demonstrated performance improvements of up to 5X for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. With higher WAN latency, Cisco WAAS shows...
- Tags: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Performance, Optimization, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cisco WAAS, WANs, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Cisco Wide Area Application Services Performance Optimization for SolidWorks
- The SolidWorks family of 3D CAD applications, like many applications, is subject to degrading performance when used in Wide Area Network WAN environments. When deployed in Local Area Network LAN environments, SolidWorks performs exceptionally well. However, when used in a WAN environment, SolidWorks performance characteristics are dramatically worse. Cisco WAAS...
- Tags: Performance, Optimization, Environment, SolidWorks Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco WAAS, WANs, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-03-01
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- Can virtualization help when times get tough?
- When times get tough, many organizations look for new ways to reduce costs while still being able to provide their customers with the products and services they need. This appears to be just such a time. Virtualization technology can most certainly be part of the solution. Let's review how each...
- Tags: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Cisco CTO: 10 ways for leaders to lean into the economic headwinds
- Managing your business and your career during tough times requires you to focus on the right stuff, both professionally and personally. Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior recently shared her tips for leaning into the current economic headwinds. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: CTO, Leader, Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Cisco SONA
- Cisco SONASONA: An Architectural ApproachDan, thanks for your posting. Just to clarify: SONA is not itself a product or series of products, but rather as you state – an approach. More specifically, an architectural approach towards understanding how network-based services can benefit applications – particularly those that are...
- Tags: Cisco SONA, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Making money on open source
- Making money on open sourceLower expenses, increased profitsThe Comment confirms that open source may be used to reduce expenses while obtaining profits from other products.Quoting:IBM has used Linux to unify its product lines, it has used open source to deliver services, and it has continued to get top dollar for...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Cisco SONA
- Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...
- Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Orion VoIP Monitor (zip)
- VoIP Monitor enables you to measure and track performance of voice quality across WAN links. Leveraging Cisco IP SLAs, VoIP Monitor collects and analyzes VoIP performance statistics including MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss, and other important quality of service QoS metrics. These features enable you to proactively find the...
- Tags: Performance, SolarWinds, VoIP Monitor, Telephony, VOIP, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2008-10-06
- IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx
- IBM will announce Monday that it is launching a beta of "Bluehouse," a social networking and collaboration service designed to link businesses with various partners. The move, part of a broader effort to define IBM's cloud computing strategy, will put it in direct competition with Cisco's collaboration...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Beta, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for free
- fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for freeI've been waiting for an application like this . . .Great to see that some really useful applications are starting to make their way through the Apple screening process.If you're interested, you can read about my experiences with many...
- Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Apple iPhone, fring, Skype Call, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-05
- I... B... Wha?
- I... B... Wha?I. B. AmazedYou have to think though, after the 90's the markets are flooded with consumer products based on technology. People associate with what they are exposed to. However in the 70's and better part of the 80's if you wanted a PC, it had to be "IBM...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, Desktops, Operating systems, Mindshare, IBM Corp., Wha
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch?
- Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch?And dont forget the virtual worlds industryHands up I am a metaverse evangelist, but I am seeing that the cost pressures on travel, the time pressures and the green pressures are causing more enterprises to re-examine the serious nature of interactions that can...
- Tags: Strategy, IT job, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Nokia ceasing development of its own business mobility solutions, what does this mean?
- I was reading a recent post on the Nokia Conversations site about some changes going on at Nokia. The first was the stepping down of Bob Iannucci, CTO of Nokia. And then the big news that Nokia is changing its approach to the enterprise by ceasing to develop or market...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobility, OZ Instant-messaging Client, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Instant Messaging, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- It's still good to be green, whether it's accidental or not
- One of the IT services companies that closely partners with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems, released an interesting survey earlier this week that confirms what I've believed for some time: IT managers don't really care about being green in the environmental sense as much as they care about saving money....
- Tags: IT Manager, Survey, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Marketing Research, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- Cisco's Stepping Up To Collaboration As Business Transformation
- Following on the recent analyses by my colleague Rob Koplowitz on Cisco's Jabber and PostPath acquisitions, here are some additional things that Information and Knowledge Management Professionals should tune into regarding Cisco as the new collaboration kid on the block: First, Cisco is building a meeting-centric workspace...
- Tags: Team, Cisco Systems Inc., B2B, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- News to know: Oracle goes hardware; MSFT confirms pre-beta Windows 7; Netbooks or notebooks?
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database Dana Gardner: HP and Oracle team up on ‘data warehouse appliances' that re-architect...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Business Intelligence, Storage, Notebooks, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Cisco mega patch plugs serious IOS vulnerabilities
- Today is a very busy patch day for network administrations managing Cisco gear. The networking giant released a whopping 12 bulletins with fixes for a wide range of security vulnerabilities in IOS, the underlying software that powers routers and network switches. Some of the...
- Tags: Cisco IOS, Vulnerability, SNMP, Cisco Systems Inc., Series Device, Network Administration, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move?
- Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move?Where's the enterprise e-mail?To me there's an elephant in the Cisco room: what about e-mail? Cisco's PostPath cannot challenge Exchange 2007 and Cisco has no Outlook equivalent. More analysis here.
- Tags: Groupware, Cisco Systems Inc., collaboration lineup, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
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