NetPerformance.com: Application Performance: When a Profiling Tool Might Not Be Enough
"You start to develop a new application. You sit in your cubicle, programming away masterfully. Semi-colons fear you. You turn into a lean, mean, coding machine. You run your build, maybe have a cup of coffee while everything compiles, start to think about testing, and, eventually, your thoughts turn toward performance."

Cisco Blog: Random "Trick"
"Okay, this may be old news to some of you, but someone showed it to me and it changed my life...or at least seemed like a pretty cool tip. On Cisco devices, you can filter the "show run" output by entering a forward slash (/) at the more prompt and typing in the section you want to move to."

internetnews.com: IBM Virtually Tabs The "Next Frontier"
"While customers may be trimming their hardware deployments with virtualization software, they still have to account for the virtual servers present on physical servers. So, while clients no longer have 100 physical computers to manage, they still have 100 virtual computers to manage. Enter [IBM's] Virtualization Manager."

Enterprise Networks & Servers: Breaking the bandwidth bottleneck outside the data center with cost effective 10G
This mismatch between data center bandwidth and the need for cost effective high speed interconnect to manage the business can now be addressed economically with recent changes in the fiber optic system transport market that bring high speed connectivity within reach of more typical low rate interconnect options.

Network World: Initiative calls for thorough process planning
Information life-cycle management is grabbing the attention of IT executives, because the discipline promises to reduce the cost of many IT operations through automation and deployment of policy-based IT systems and tools.