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Networking is getting tougher. Networks must deliver a growing range of services, from ERP, CRM and email to VoIP and web services applications, each of which has its own idiosyncrasies and requirements. Each new service introduced onto the network contends for available resources with every other service, impacting the network’s ability to support the business.

Meanwhile, the network itself is constantly changing. New locations are added - some of which may be in another country or on another continent. Equipment is upgraded and/or re-configured. New management and/or security tools may themselves impact service performance. Decisions about data center consolidation and business re-organization also affect the network in different ways. All of this makes the network a highly dynamic environment where even subtle changes can have a major, unforeseen impact on application performance and availability.

Yet business users expect this complex environment to be as reliable as electricity - despite the fact that networking budgets are not being increased in proportion to these growing challenges. So network managers can’t simply over-provision network infrastructure to make sure every service has all the bandwidth it needs. Moreover, over provisioning may not even solve the problem and/or ensure the required level of performance.

That’s why network managers are facing many challenges, including:

1) Pinpointing potential network performance issues early in the development lifecycle

Ideally, the impact of the network on a new application or service should be dealt with from the very beginning of the development process - when potential problems are much easier and less expensive to fix. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case. Problems with an application’s “networkability” are typically discovered only after its roll-out into the production environment is initiated. At that point, it’s usually too late to make any significant changes in the application’s design. So the problem gets pushed onto the shoulders of the networking team. That’s why, in ‘05, smart network managers will focus on nipping these problems in the bud.

2) Validating new or modified applications and infrastructure before they are deployed in production

As the network becomes more complex and more critical to the day-to-day-operation of the business, network performance related risks associated with application and infrastructure change are continuing to rise. In fact, some of the worst business interruptions that companies have historically experienced have not been the result of unexpected equipment failure. They’ve been the unexpected consequence of a planned modification. Networking teams must therefore implement change management best practices in ‘05 that prevent them from having to put out fires that they accidentally started themselves.

3) Improved troubleshooting of intermittent/transient network problems

One of the most frustrating things for a network manager is dealing with a problem that keeps disappearing before it can be adequately understood and remedied. However, as the business’s tolerance for network interruptions continues to drop, these intermittent problems will become a bigger management issue. So this year, network management teams need to develop more effective methods for capturing transient network conditions and discovering the root causes of these problems.

4) Accelerated time-to-benefit for new and/or upgraded applications

When C-level executives decide to make investments in new applications and services, they want to see those investments pay off quickly. That’s why the slow, staged production roll-outs of the past won’t cut it anymore. Instead, networking teams need to be able to quickly deploy new applications across the enterprise. This can only happen if caution and uncertainty about the actual behavior of these applications in the production environment is replaced by confidence and certainty in ‘05.

5) More intelligent planning for and support of business growth

Network managers constantly have to cope with change. They have to determine how increases in network utilization will affect application performance. They have to decide how to best engineer the network to support business expansion, re-organization or mergers and acquisitions. However, they can only do so if they have an effective means of performing capacity planning tasks and assessing a full range of “what-if” scenarios. Such scenarios are also critical for formulating realistic contingency plans that can ensure business continuity under a variety of possible conditions.

Looking at these challenges, it quickly becomes evident that conventional production network management tools alone are no longer sufficient for today’s networking teams. These tools are great for monitoring the production network and discovering certain types of problems - but they don’t enable network managers to validate new technologies and applications before they’re deployed on the production network. They also force network managers to solve problems that should have been addressed in application design.

Conventional tools aren’t very helpful for troubleshooting intermittent and/or transient network problems either, since they don’t provide a means of reconstructing and analyzing such intermittent conditions. Nor do they help accelerate production roll-outs, facilitate experimentation with “what-if” scenarios, or support formulation of network contingency plans.

So what’s an overworked, under-resourced network manager to do? The answer is to look at network modeling technologies. These technologies provide an environment in which new applications, technologies and problem-solving strategies can be safely and thoroughly evaluated. Because they allow an application’s network behavior to be fully validated before it’s deployed in the production environment, these technologies also empower network managers to perform more rapid, glitch-free roll-outs. Plus, modeling technologies are uniquely able to provide insight into any number of “what-if” scenarios - so network managers can make plans for growth, corporate re-structuring and/or disaster recovery.

“Empirical” modeling solutions offer today’s network management teams particularly excellent business value, because of their accuracy and relative ease of implementation. This accuracy and ease is achieved by running the actual applications against a model that uses captured conditions from the production environment. The result is a clear understanding of the user experience well ahead of deployment.

To learn more, visit www.shunra.com. Shunra empowers enterprise organizations and technology vendors to eliminate the risks associated with rolling out complex, distributed, applications and services. The Shunra Virtual Enterprise (Shunra VE) solution provides accurate, highly granular insight into how networked applications will function, perform and scale for remote end-users. It creates an exact replica of the production network environment, allowing users to safely develop, test and experiment with applications and infrastructure in a lab environment before deployment in production.

Amichai Lesser Bio

Amichai Lesser is the director of product marketing at Shunra Software, a company that delivers award-winning solutions that recreate a replica of any production network environment for testing the functionality, robustness, performance and scalability of applications and services - before rollout.

This article is copyrighted by Shunra. It may not be reproduced in whole or in part and may not be posted on other websites without the express written permission of the author who may be contacted via email at Shunra@digitalbrandexpressions.com.

The sensational area of Africa known as South Luangwa has been voted the greatest place to safari in Africa. The area has been acclaimed in numerous years by the worlds amazing animal experts. UK travellers may be able to admire big groups of lions as well as magnificent hippos. Try Africa safari holidays from Kaingo and explore your wild side.

The safari park is well regarded for its incredible walking safaris and is a hit with all United Kingdom folk. The changing seasons makes the wildlife park irrestible with a desert season through out winter and a green pretty jungle feel over June and July. During the changes in season the animals can often change giving UK travellers a different aspect.

Uncover the charisma of South Africa with a driving safari vacation and be at one with the amazing nature and wildlife. The spectacular rivers and lion prides can make tourists feel alive with energy. You will be able to take lots of photographs and bring home the most influential memories.

Southern Africa has legions of animals in its parks and UK travellers might easily find the perfect photo of a lion. If you are not used to a walking safari you can often go on a driving safari and see huge amounts of the country within a short amount of time. Once you have exhausted your safari by day you might often then go back to your hotel complex to chill out. Numerous apartments are 5 star and brilliant.

Italy as one of the most ancient European civilizations is unknown to none. Italy had been the land of Roman Empire for long. Today the country has a rich history and tradition that speaks for itself and gathers tourists from all round the world. Italy is a place known for its wonderful cities and their archaic art and architecture. There are great Roman structures like Roman Colosseum and Pantheon; the Sistine Chapel, sculptures by maestros Leonardo, Michelangelo etc. and many more attractions that can make your vacation a dream come true.

A Walk through the Italian Cities-

The cities of Italy are quite popular across the globe. For instance the land of Julius Caesar i.e. the city of Rome also known as the “Eternal City” has an aura of exotic Roman art and architecture. Rome is famous for its architectural masterpiece of the Colosseum, the National Gallery of Ancient Art which in itself is a magnum opus and displays the work of Bernini, Raphael and Titan. The Capitoline Museums houses the complete history of Rome, the Gallery of Modern Art presents the 19th and 20th century at work by eminent artists and the Galleria Borghese museum in Rome has the largest art collection in the world.

The city of Venice seeks no introduction. It is the city where tranquility prevails and the beguiling art and architecture makes everyone’s day. The visitors are attracted by pulls like the Grand Canal, the museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Oriental Art in the Santa Croce region of Venice, which put at parade the art work from countries like Japan, Indonesia and China. Also worth visiting are the Academy of Fine Art and the Correr Museum known for its Renaissance art.

The fashion city of Milan has always been inviting visitors. It is a primary economic and cultural center of Italy. Milan is popular for the Romanesque architecture in the Lombardy region of which Milan is a part; The Cathedral of Milan that is a paradigm example of Gothic architecture. The Milan museums include some of the fascinating museums in the world. For instance the Brera Gallery that presents the tour de force of geniuses like Raphael and Giovanni Bellini. You can also gaze at the awesome “The Last Supper”, Jesus and his disciples at the Piazza Santa Maria delle Grazie church.

Since the entire Italy is swarming with museums and art, the city of Florence too grounds few wonderful ones. The Uffizi Gallery which is best known for the art work of Sandro Botticelli - “Birth of Venus”, Leonardo da Vinci’s strokes, and apart from these the Dutch, French and Spanish work of art it displays.

Besides this, Florence is thronged for its delectable cuisine, hill slopes and the oldest archaeologically significant region of this place i.e. the Tuscany region. One among the wonders of the world, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is nestled in the Italian town of Pisa in the Tuscany region.

The Vatican City is a center of attraction in Italy particularly for magnificent Sistine Chapel, designed by the architect Baccio Pontelli and feathers added to it by Bernini. The galleries of this Chapel present some of the exclusive art works-paintings and sculptures like “run-of-the-mill”, the archaic bronze statue of Apoxyomenos, Michelangelo’s sculpture ‘The Pieta’ and so forth.

After these Italy has many other cities that have always been welcoming visitors with their pleasant surroundings and amazing art work.

So one should, in one’s life time definitely bask in the glory of the skill of distinguished artists, painters and architects, no where else but Italy.

Mansi gupta writes about Italian travel Learn more at http://www.italianartvacation.com

People choose to retire outside of their native country for a variety of reasons. Some people choose to retire abroad in order to bask in a preferred climate. Some people crave a shift in their pace of life, and some retire abroad for a change of scenery-be it the mountains or a beach. For a large number of retirees, the primary consideration for retiring abroad is their finances.

The reality of rising inflation and a falling income come retirement age encourages a search for affordable living, beyond borders, in retirement.

Over the last 45 years, inflation in the U.S. has averaged about 4.5% annually. If you currently earn $50,000.00 per year, you will need to earn $52,250.00 next year ($50,000.00 x 4.5) and so forth in order to maintain your present standard of living and stay even with inflation. In the same vein, if your investment returns an average of 8% you can reasonably expect inflation to eat away about 3% to 4%, based on historical figures. At 4% inflation you will lose half of your purchasing power in 18 years. Certainly no one can predict the future and inflation could in fact decrease and inflate investments.
However, most American retirees are not counting on inflation decreasing to secure their future.

International living has revealed itself as a viable option for retirees. According to the Social Security Administration, in 2002, 242,128 American retirees had their Social Security benefits sent outside of the U.S.

Costa Rica sports between 20,000 and 30,000 Americans, according to the U.S. embassy there. Costa Rica has lured American and European retirees with its beauty, affordability, and stable government. One reason being that so many retired Americans have chosen Costa Rica is that Costa Rica is a tax haven for retirees. Americans living in Costa Rica do not have to pay income taxes on social security received from the U.S. government.

Countless testimonials from Americans now living in Costa Rica claim their social security check affords them luxuries that it wouldn’t afford at home in the states. In Costa Rica, dining out will set you back $10, beach front real estate can be a fraction of what it costs in the U.S., and an orange will cost you seven cents. Additionally, testimonials by American retirees describe a more peaceful day to day life in Costa Rica-one void of crime and stress.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, by 2010, nearly 40 million Americans will be 65 or older. By the year 2030, that number will jump to nearly 76 million. One can be certain that as inflation continues to rise, a percentage of people will be looking to retire outside of the U.S.

If you have traveled in Costa Rica then you know how captivating the beaches, jungles, and mountains can be. The beauty of Costa Rica along with the warmth of the Ticos and the affordability of a day to day life encourage retirees to research what Costa Rica offers. It is not uncommon for retirees to look towards their favorite vacation spots as a possible place to call home. If you have never traveled in Costa Rica, I suggest you enrich your life and take a trip to the paradise many now call home.

Abigail Durden is a writer with over 20 years of experience traveling, writing and living abroad. Her newest book, Live and Retire in Costa Rica is an informative guide that explains how easy it is to make the move to live in Costa Rica. Please visit the following url for additional information: http://costa-rica-resources.com/free-costa-rica-tips.aspx

There are several well-known truck washes in the Great State of Nevada. Truckers need to get their truck washes as they travel West into California after coming off the mountains thru the weather, which dirties their trucks. There are two truck washes in Reno and two in Las Vegas, another strategically placed in Fernley to catch traffic coming from Las Vegas to Reno and on I-80 before the traffic. When picking locations from truck washes you must consider many factors and look for well-traveled crossroads, which are heavy on the truck traffic.

The other day I got a call from a gentleman wishing to put in a truck was in Northern NV. Where would you put a truck wash? Well it would need to be on I-80 for sure but there are only a few areas, which have labor supply. So which city? There is Winnamucca which has a highway going North into Boise Area and thru the desert to post Cascade OR. Then there is also Battle Creek nicknamed the armpit of the world. And there is Windover at the border after the Great Salt Lake. How about Elko, strong population base, labor and even its own market, well they are all good for truck wash and I-80 thru Northern Nevada is highly traveled. If you have been to Windover and the Bonneville Salt Flats you will see that would not be a bad choice at all and I actually made a comment that it would be a good place for a wash indeed.

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Outside Reno there is a Blue Beacon Truck Wash and it always a line in Fernley, NV.

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There are Two truck washes in Reno, and a Scale on the way up the hill in CA on I-80
means truckers who are dirty can expect excessive grease tickets without a wash. Elko, NV seems like a good location indeed, because of the cross roads into Idaho shortcut some take? Other than that anywhere along there ought to be good as dirty trucks from I-70, I-80, or I-15 coming from Salt Lake into Northern Cal would be significantly dirty indeed.

Having been on the road thru there to Twin Falls by the Basque establishment, it seems viable at the I-80 junction. There is little truck traffic on that road compared to the massive I-80, but I do believe that one would find adequate volume for it to work. There is not need to do further research. I understand that the Flying J there does a good 200,000 gallons a day Tuesday thru Sat. Surely enough truck traffic. One would have the place cornered the day you start? It would be easy to corner the market with no competition for 160-200 miles either direction, it is an ideal location, providing one could get labor resource there, remember those desert areas have huge drug problems. The LDS crowd might provide you with good labor. I would go inexpensive to start there due to the profit motivation; Steel Structure, Above ground reclaim and skid hot water pressure washer unit. RO system, then someone could make a go of it if one went low cost to start, heavy on the signage and also invited the motorhome traffic in for a wash.

If you are considering opening a truck wash here are some Internet resources you might wish to check out.

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Here is some information you might like:

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Having traveled the nation, I have been to 1,000’s of car washes. Not as many truck washes because, well there are not as many, at least 150 of them. Since I drive this unit as my house on wheels, http://www.carwashguys.com/blitz.html generally I get it washed at truck washes, sometimes I wash it myself with on board washing equipment. When you travel around the country and observe things you see where a truck wash is needed. Best to ask a truck driver, where in your state they desperately need a good truck wash. Think on this.

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Shopping on the internet has been increasing every year over the last five years, a new survey predicts another busy year for internet shopping in the UK. According to the results of an online survey of 3,012 shoppers by PriceGrabber.com, this Christmas shopping season promises to be the busiest yet for internet shopping.

We thought you may be interested to see what fellow internet shoppers are up to and why, or just enjoy the amusement value!

Key findings

- The average shopper will spend GBP 768 on their Christmas goodies, of which 50% will be purchased online (hmm…sounds rather high!)

- 93% of respondents expect to do more online shopping this year than last year, citing a growing dislike of stressful high street Christmas shopping and soaring petrol prices as two of the main reasons behind this move.

- Comfort and satisfaction with the online experience has also increased dramatically and 88% stated they would spend substantial time researching products and prices online before making offline purchases.

- Over 50% of those surveyed will have started their Christmas shopping by November 1st, with 40.1% having already started by early October. But despite this “pre-planning” mentality, 75% of respondents expect that they will still be buying gifts as late as five days before Christmas.

The top 3 reasons shoppers are most likely to buy their Christmas gifts online:

1. Convenience - eliminate hassle of driving/parking/crowds (36%)

2. Flexibility - shop 24 hours of the day (33%)
3. Finding low prices (19%)

The top 3 things shoppers dislike about shopping for gifts on the high street:

1. Waiting in lines (30%)
2. Finding the right selection of gifts for everyone (28%)

3. Lack of time to get it all done (20%)

Additional finding
- 46% answered yes when asked if they would do more Christmas gift shopping online specifically because of high petrol prices

- 42% of respondents say they will shop for gifts online while at work. 45.2% of men surveyed admitted that they will shop online
while at work, while only 34.7% of women will count on shopping online while at work as an option

- About the same percentage of respondents answered that they will buy Christmas gifts online this year for pets (17%) as they will for co-workers (18%)

Survey Methodology

This Christmas shopping survey was conducted by PriceGrabber.com in October 2005. The survey ran from October 12-19 October 2005. It was administered online among a random sample of individuals. The total sample size was 3,012 respondents, 1,045 females and 1967 males. The confidence interval for all results is 95% with a margin of error of approximately +/-3 percentage points for the entire sample.
LONDON - BUSINESS WIRE Nov. 2, 2005

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Audio books have all the right terms to become a popular trend in the near future. Going a bit more far, there is even a reasonable chance that audio books will make the concept of books as we know it today disappear.
Let us explain in the following lines how we have come to this extreme conclusion:

1. Audio books are not new - I have listened to books on tapes in the end of the eights century of the previous century - 30 years ago. The technology has developed but the concept remained the same - Audio book is a recording of the contents of a book read aloud.
All modern technologies have come to a maturity after existing for at least ten years in which their technology was improved. Take a look at digital cameras, LCD screens, Cellular phones etc. Now it is the turn of audio books.

2. User Friendly - In the last year the use of MP3 players for listening to audio books have become very common. MP3 players are easy to use and have ideal functions for audio books - You can continue listening to an audio book from the section you stopped. MP3 players which are used to listen to downloaded audio books are far smaller than CD players used to play audio books on cds and walkmans used to play books on tapes.

3. Variety of products - More and more publishers,book sellers and authors understand the potential of audio books and publish new audio books each day. All the best sellers could be found in an audio book version. You should not have a problem to find the latest Harry Potter audio book or Stephen King audio book.

4. Maximizing time management and productivity - Time is money and in the modern world we live in every second counts. Audio books help us maximize our wasted time - Businessmen can listen to the latest business journals on their way to work, Children could listen to educative children audio books in the bus buck from school etc.

To sum up, audio books are here and they are not going any where. So, try them. You can even download free audio books and get a free MP3 player to play them.

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Tip #1. Find your purpose. Finding one’s purpose is the key to having a happy and successful life. It all starts here. Find what you are passionate about. Find what you enjoy doing. Find a way to make a living doing it.

Tip #2. Create a definite purpose. It’s not enough to say ‘I like to help others’. You must think of exactly HOW you can help others. What do you like to help them do? Be as specific as possible.

Tip #3. Write out your goals. Now that you are specific about what you wish to do, write it down. Statistics shows that goals which are written down are more likely to be accomplished. And here’s an additional tip, write them down in the present tense.

Tip #4. Imagine your goals already accomplished. This is the fun part. Spend time imagining yourself already accomplishing the goals you wish to accomplish. If you want that dream home, visualize yourself living in it. If you want that new position, imagine yourself already in it. If you want more money, imagine yourself already spending it.

Tip #5. Get excited. That’s right. Get excited about this magnificent life you are living. Get excited about that raise, new position, your ability to help others, that new car, the book you have completed, you having the lead article in a major magazine. Get excited as if it has already happened in your life.

Tip #6. Have Faith. That’s right. Have faith that you will accomplish all of the things you desire and will, very soon, be living that magnificent life. There is no room for doubt. Do not, in any way, allow doubt or negativity to creep into your thoughts. Guard your thoughts and have faith.

Tip #7. Get out of the way. That’s rightget out of the way. Don’t be YOU about. Trust that God is in control and is making things work behind the scenes. Just keep focusing on the end resultswhat you are going to accomplish.

Tip #8Take action. When you get the urge to do somethingdo it. Take action. Don’t just talk about it, be about it.

Follow these 8 tips and in no time at all you will be living the magnificent life that you have always desired and deserve.

Dawn Fields is a motivational speaker, author and life coach who teaches how to discover your life’s purpose and incorporate it into a lucrative career. Visit her web site at http://www.dawnfields.com and be sure to sign up for Your Life’s Purpose newsletter by sending a blank email to dawn@dawnfields.com. Tune in Thursday nights at 9 p.m. to her live radio broadcast at http://www.dawnfields.com/radioshow.htm

Computer video games are 1 of the most stimulating kind of electronic entertainment in the world at present, and a substantial number of games products are purchased yearly.

The recognition of computer games consoles means that computer manufacturers such as Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are repeatedly inventing additional games devices using integrating most recent equipment to stay ahead of each competitor in the market.

As a result, knowing just which handheld games console to plump for can easily be complex, whether you are receiving a computer games device for the first occasion, getting one as a gift for another person, or just hoping to upgrade their existing computer device.

So we’ve wrote the subsequent article to the kind of things you should ought to be looking for when selecting and buying a video device to help you find your way around the video market.

How to Choose a Video Console

There are more than a few questions that you need to have previous to choosing a games product in order to guarantee that you procure the spot on games product for yourself. Here are several of the things you should consider when making your choice.

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One of the main choices you are having make when browsing for a video device is whether or not you call for a games product that will largely be played at home, or whether you want a portable handheld computer games console.