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Network Performance Daily: Notes on the Gartner Summit in Las Vegas, Part 3
Katrina's impact on Northrop Grumman: "The two NG data centers in La. and Miss. were fully configured for redundancy with hot fail-over between systems in both locations. To ensure both data centers would not be affected by 'traditional' disasters, such as local power failures, flooding, accidents, etc., they were located 150 miles apart. Unfortunately, the destruction of Katrina was more than 150 miles wide and took both data centers out."

eWeek: Study: Cisco Gains Market Share in Routers
"Cisco Systems Inc. gained share in global sales of routers in the third quarter, while the overall market grew with demand for high-speed Internet services, an industry report showed."

What You Need to Know About "ITIL Compliant"
"Suddenly every vendor has ITIL. Most IT operational tools claim to 'support ITIL' or to be 'ITIL compliant.' Recently one vendor announced they are seeking 'ITIL certification,' no less."

Computerworld: Giving YouTube its due
"Today, limited end-to-end bandwidth hangs up high quality video streaming, particularly for households. Fatter pipes in the last mile are one solution, but establishing quality of service across the public Internet would allow users to do more with less bandwidth by giving priority to those voice and video packets."

InfoWorld: Will IT certifications pay off in the long run?
"Are certified IT jobs just becoming more of a commodity, facing stiffer offshore competition? Are certifications becoming less relevant because anybody can go to Google and get themselves a minitutorial on almost any tech topic, any time? Or as Foote Partners CEO David Foote suggests, have enterprise employers simply refocused their priorities on “niche,” noncertified skills such as applications and Web or e-commerce development?"

The IT Skeptic: 10 other things you should know about ITIL
"TechRepublic posted a fairly inane '10 Things you should know about ITIL,' so here are the IT Skeptic's 10 other things you should know about ITIL:"




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