How to consolidate network management tools

Extreme unveils universal networking gear to simplify infrastructure decisions

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How to consolidate network management tools

Enterprise IT shops are getting serious about winnowing the tools they use for network capacity planning, monitoring, event correlation, configuration management and more.

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