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The need for widespread mobility marks today’s most strategic businesses. In this, our fifth in a six-part series, we help you figure out how to make wireless part of your new data center architecture.


	Toward the mobile enterprise, step by step With improved devices, apps and infrastructure, wireless is making headway as a solid new data center technology. Analyst Mark Lowenstein offers a 10-point evaluation guide.

	VoIP and WLAN — a dreamy new combo Three early adopters tell how they’ve paired VoIP and WLANs as part of their new data center plans.

	Taking business apps on the road . . . and accessing them wirelessly Advances in wireless nets and mobile computing now make it possible to separate line-of-business applications from enterprise desktops.

	Do-it-yourself disaster recovery Using virtualization technology to pry apps away from dedicated physical resources can have an added benefit: DR on the cheap.

	Pressing the new data center advantage Sam Marrazzo, senior application architect for Praxair, shares his insights on preparing applications for virtualized servers.

	7 ways to slash costs with the new data center As data centers evolve, businesses say these technologies have helped them cut costs and become more efficient, even as the workload increases.

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	Watch for the final installment of this six-part New Data Center series, coming Oct. 25 with a spotlight on IT automation. Prior issues: An owner's handbook \| Spotlight on security \| Spotlight on storage \| Spotlight onVoIP