Network Performance Daily: The Enterprise UI, Part 1: Why UI Design is Important – and so Difficult – in Enterprise Apps
"Having a well-thought out interface can save time, save frustration, and create emotional links to the product and draw the user back to it. Especially with enterprise apps, where vendors are tasked with reducing costs calculated by employee time on-task, the more that you can shorten the time it takes employees to do certain tasks by making them more intuitive and more efficient, the more you can save organizations in their total cost of ownership."

SearchNetworking.com: Cisco adds WAN optimization, tunnel-less VPN to ISR
"In keeping with the growing trend of speeding WAN traffic and boosting application performance, Cisco also integrated WAN optimization and application acceleration into the ISR. Also added was a high-performance Network Analysis Module (NAM). Combined, the updates are designed to eliminate WAN bottlenecks and boost application performance to the branch."

Network World: 10 things you need to consider before deploying video on the 'Net
"IT leaders need to stay out in front of Internet video technology in order to anticipate corporate needs and what it will require to fulfill those needs in terms of money, time, expertise and infrastructure improvements."

Network World: Cisco puts WAAS and more in router
"The WAAS blade belongs in the router. …It manipulates network traffic to improve the performance of applications," says Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president of enterprise research, Yankee Group. "Many of the boxes that sit outside the router require the routers to be reconfigured. You could build routing into a WAAS box as well, but it makes sense to have it together. If you're not Cisco and you don't own the router, you need to do a lot of work to make sure it's transparent."