Networking imperative: Change; Juniper acquires media content company

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	The networking imperative: Change At the Interop conference later this month in Vegas, Jim will moderate ten panels. The driving force behind most of these panels is our belief that virtualization and cloud computing fundamentally change everything. We are going to use the next few newsletters to elaborate on that belief and to invite you to attend as many of Jim's sessions as possible. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Top 5 Hyper-V Best Practices Read this whitepaper to get advice on everything from making sure you configure enough network connections, especially in iSCSI, to specifying the specific initiator groups and the correct LUN type when provisioning the NetApp LUN for use with Hyper-V. Learn More! In this Issue Juniper acquires media content company Dead? Hardly. Ruling all but ensures net neutrality Fibre investment needs won't change if government does FCC Pursues Broadband Agenda In Spite Of Legal Setback Don't forget file sharing performance WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Understand the Network Impact of 802.11n As performance and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission- critical applications. This paper outlines the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n. Read More! Juniper acquires media content company Juniper this week said it is acquiring partner Ankeena Networks, a privately held maker of software for optimizing media content delivery, for no more than $100 million. Read More Dead? Hardly. Ruling all but ensures net neutrality As I predicted last month, a federal appeals court recently overturned the fines imposed by the Federal Communications Commission on Comcast in 2007. The ruling was overturned on the grounds that the FCC lacks jurisdiction over telco Internet access offerings. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. The Full Story on WAAS Cost Saving Benefits Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) can deliver a very favorable ROI within 11 months says Forrester Consulting in this informative report. WAAS lets you effectively choose how to deploy applications, store data and provision infrastructure services between branch and data center locations. Learn More Fibre investment needs won't change if government does Australia will still need to invest heavily in a fibre optic network to deliver on the goal of providing high-speed broadband to the population regardless of what happens at the next Federal election, according to the head of a representative body leading industry discussions on the National Broadband Network (NBN). Read More FCC Pursues Broadband Agenda In Spite Of Legal Setback Net neutrality and the National Broadband Plan are both alive and well. Contrary to the media frenzy and expert punditry in the wake of a US district court decision rejecting attempts by the FCC to impose its will on Comcast, there were no broader implications regarding the general authority of the FCC. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Don't forget file sharing performance Consolidating 10 dispersed branch offices into one virtualised data centre can produce significant savings, as Australia's second largest manufacturer of non-alcoholic and non-dairy beverages P&N Beverages found out three years ago. Read More
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