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	Gearhead's top 10 tools Gearhead author Mark Gibbs picks his top 10 everyday tools - the tools he can't live without. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Converge Your Networks for Flexibility Cisco Unified Fabric offers the industry's largest and first fully interoperable portfolio of Fiber Channel integrating storage and data networking to deliver transparent convergence, massive three-dimensional scalability and sophisticated intelligence. It also reduces your costs up to 45%. Learn More In this Issue BMC buys app performance vendor Coradiant Cisco offers early retirement to certain employees Facebook's 'green' data center design to have ripple effect Cisco rails against 'tactical, multi-vendor approach' to networks Feds update IT plan following Obama's 'horrible' comment The Sony PlayStation Network breach: An identity-theft bonanza PlayStation Network hack timeline Dirty little secrets of virtualization Attachmate seals $2.2B Novell deal What does tiered storage really do to performance? VMware buys SlideRocket to boost end-user computing RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: HP Take the HP Exstream Challenge from Forrester and HP Why do so many companies compare their solution to HP Exstream? It's probably because more than 700 enterprise customers around the world use our customer communications software and are getting amazing results. Or maybe it's because we are consistently ranked #1 by analysts. Whatever the reason, you owe it to yourself and your company to check out HP Exstream. We are so confident our solution is the best on the market, we invite you to take the HP Exstream Challenge. BMC buys app performance vendor Coradiant BMC has purchased Coradiant, maker of software for improving end-user experience and tracking Web application performance, the company said Thursday. Terms were not disclosed. Read More Cisco offers early retirement to certain employees Cisco this week instituted a voluntary early retirement program, its first in two years, in an effort to reduce costs. Read More Facebook's 'green' data center design to have ripple effect Facebook's innovative new data center design -- believed to be one of the world's most energy-efficient facilities of its kind -- will have a significant influence on corporate data center build-outs over the next several years, experts say. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Why BMC is the ITSM Market Leader Some vendors may force you to make difficult upgrades. Not us. BMC offers Rapid Results implementation services and BMC Remedy OnDemand, a SaaS version of the industry-leading IT Service Management suite. Read more to learn the top reasons why BMC Remedy offers true ITSM with out-of-the-box ease. Read More Today! Cisco rails against 'tactical, multi-vendor approach' to networks With Gartner in recent months arguing against single-vendor networks in general and Cisco's message in particular, Cisco today fired back. Read More Feds update IT plan following Obama's 'horrible' comment Last week, President Barack Obama described federal IT as "horrible," and on Wednesday, Jeff Zients, the federal chief performance officer, explained why this is the case. Read More The Sony PlayStation Network breach: An identity-theft bonanza The massive Sony PlayStation Network data breach that exposed personal and password information -- and possibly credit cards -- of an estimated 77 million people is an identity-theft bonanza. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now! PlayStation Network hack timeline This is a timeline of major events associated with the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services. Read More Dirty little secrets of virtualization How can you ensure the stability of your data center while at the same time taking maximum advantage of the flexibility of virtualization? Read More Attachmate seals $2.2B Novell deal The Attachmate Group announced Wednesday that it has completed its $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell, a networking pioneer in the 1980s that's now being described as "a leader in intelligent workload management" by its new owner. Read More What does tiered storage really do to performance? Enterprises are challenged to keep pace with mounting unstructured file data. While NAS represents the optimal choice for storing such data, the strain to scale NAS economically while preserving application performance is like trying to use your fingers to plug holes in a dam that has sprouted thousands of leaks. Read More VMware buys SlideRocket to boost end-user computing VMware, long the king of virtualization in the data center, is trying to make headway with users who may have never deployed a virtual server or even heard of a hypervisor. Read More
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