Your chance to talk live with IT industry celebrities, your favorite Network World columnists and other newsmakers.
Application performance management and WAN acceleration are hard problems to solve and is a market segment loaded with vendor mythology from players like Cisco, Riverbed, Blue Coat, Sliver Peak Systems and others. Dr. Jim Metzler will be joining us for a live Network World chat where he can answer your questions on this topic. Widely known as one of the industry's foremost gurus of WAN acceleration, Jim is also a sought-after speaker and consultant. He has logged over 28 years of experience with network technology and its business applications. Metzler is vice president of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, and co-author of Network World's Wide Area Networking newsletter.
2 - 3 p.m. ET, Tuesday, August 19
Facebook: friend or foe?
Some companies block sites like Facebook and Twitter while others embrace social networking in all its glorious messiness. Is social networking the best collaboration tool ever or a giant black hole for productivity coupled with an unacceptable security risk? Whatever the answer, IT is being put in the middle of the controversy. Curt Monash will be available to answer your questions about social networking malware, Website hardware (OS/chip/power, etc.), presence, blogging, collaboration, search-engine-optimization and other aspects of social networking technologies. Monash writes the popular Network World blog, A World of Bytes and his own blog, Text Technologies. He is a well-known name in the software industry for founding his own systems integration company, founding/managing a handful of startups and his consulting contracts for Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, AOL and others.
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