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	AT&T to throttle big users of unlimited data AT&T announced service throttling for the heaviest users of its unlimited mobile data plans on Friday, saying the only way to truly solve its bandwidth crunch is for regulators to approve its merger with T-Mobile USA. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Addressing the Downside of IT Consolidation Conflicting trends in IT affect your ability to deliver a high performance infrastructure . Adding or rationing bandwidth, redeploying local resources, and tiering service levels don't fix your underlying problems. With WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed, the network can be transformed from a barrier to an enabler of your initiatives. Read More In this Issue Glyn Meek: You might be a has-been if ... Travel Smart: The Best Tech Gear for the Road Carriers, trade groups propose broadband fund Mobile malware reality check VIDEO: Cisco Avoid Downtime with Network Resilience Network resiliency is a complex vision that encompasses security, availability, and network responsiveness. No single technology or system makes end-to-end network resiliency possible. However, a combination of Cisco innovations provides your network with high performance, fast recovery, and the ability to adapt dynamically to changing conditions. Learn More> Glyn Meek: You might be a has-been if ... Eventually technology overtakes even the best of us. Here are some of the ways you can tell if YOU are past your prime and need to hang up your coding pad ... especially if you know what a coding pad actually was.   Read More Travel Smart: The Best Tech Gear for the Road Editor's note: Former computer security consultant Anil Polat has set a goal of traveling the world indefinitely, while blogging about his tech-fueled experiences at foxnomad.com. Given his on-the-go lifestyle, Polat has strong feelings about what to look for in digital tagalongs. Here's what he recommends. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Address VDI Performance Issues If you are evaluating desktop virtualization, you are right to be concerned about the increased bandwidth requirements placed on your WAN. This paper examines how WAN optimization makes room for desktop virtualization by freeing up bandwidth 60%-90% through data reduction of TCP applications and directly reducing the load generated by VDI itself. Read More Carriers, trade groups propose broadband fund A group of telecom carriers and trade groups proposes broadband subsidies to replace telephone service subsidies. Read More Mobile malware reality check Smartphone malware isn't yet as big a threat as you might think, but it's coming. Here are some tips to help you avoid it. Read More
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