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Windows Server 2008: Faster, more manageable and secure, but still missing the virtual link
Microsoft's long-awaited Windows Server 2008 delivers advancements in speed, security and management, but its virtualization
and NAC features come up short.
Fave raves
Seven must-have products, in readers' own words.
A top-down approach to IT management
IT management efforts to focus on service delivery within the enterprise are hamstrung by traditional IT management tools
that view the world from a bottom-up perspective – a method of managing individual components within a network under a specific
category or silo. What’s needed is a top-down perspective.
Cisco announces QuantumFlow mystery network processor
Cisco is announcing a 40-core network processor Monday that seems designed to upgrade its CRS-1 core router, though the company
isn't saying yet.
Microsoft’s API release seen as olive branch to some, weapon to others
Microsoft’s commitment to open up its APIs and communications protocols and reach out to open source developers polarized
opinions much like Microsoft itself has historically polarized the industry.
What do unlimited calling plans really offer businesses?
In the wake of the new flat-rate plans offered by Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, some analysts have speculated that carriers
have started offering them to attract new business customers. With more businesses requiring more mobility from their employees,
they note, adopting an unlimited calling plan might be a good way to meet their workers' needs without having to worry about
overage or roaming charges.
How to decipher confusing NAC claims
NAC can be confusing for very good reasons, not the least of which are that it is genuinely complicated and it has a great
number of architectural options that only get greater when customers consider multivendor deployments.
Monster Cisco 802.11n wireless net planned at Duke
Duke University is the latest school to take the 802.11n wireless LAN plunge. It plans to upgrade the campus network with
2,500 Cisco 11n access points.
Virtual call centers bring offshoring alternative
Rather than choosing offshore providers for cost savings, North American companies find more value in the customer service
benefits of staffing virtual call centers with U.S. agents.
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