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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Network pros decide application performance matters

BT survey shows network professionals take a bigger stake in delivering optimized application performance
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Network pros decide application performance matters

Denise Dubie By Denise Dubie
The days of finger pointing between network teams and application groups might be on the way to extinction, according to survey data recently released by BT. Read full story

Denise Dubie is senior editor with Network World.

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