Riverbed and Vyatta partner for all-in-one router, WAN appliance

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	Very cool: Riverbed and Vyatta partner for all-in-one router, WAN appliance  Vyatta announced a deal with Riverbed to add its router software to Riverbed's RSP Platform. So what you can do is now run a router, firewall and VPN on your Riverbed Steelhead appliance and remove your current router. Sound like a good idea? Read More E-GUIDE: APC by Schneider Electric 5 Ways to Shrink a Data Center Most data centers can support an average density of 100 to 200 watts per sq. foot. The future of high-density computing – beyond 30 KW - will have to rely on water-based cooling, but is that cost effective? This expert guide discusses the latest energy technologies for today and the future. Read Now. In this Issue Juniper acquires media content company EMC doubles de-duplication array capacity, speed Conquering the challenges of managing cloud-based apps Dead? Hardly. Ruling all but ensures net neutrality FCC: 60 new proceedings in '10 related to broadband plan The networking imperative: Change Don't forget file sharing performance IT management and automation market shrinks, yet players grow Integrating social computing and unified communications Fibre investment needs won't change if government does WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. 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 EMC doubles de-duplication array capacity, speed EMC announced a new version of its Data Domain de-duplication array, the DD880, that not only doubles capacity but also offers petabytes of storage through multiple arrays linked through a single global name space. Read More Conquering the challenges of managing cloud-based apps Network Instruments extends it Observer to monitor the health and performance of applications across multiple tiers, including internal and external cloud computing environments. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Business Agility Strategies For Midsize Organizations Midsize businesses have enormous IT pressures: building an infrastructure that is flexible, designed to accommodate rapid growth and meets compliance challenges with resources nowhere near larger enterprises. This video whitepaper explains how Oracle is delivering applications specifically for midsize businesses. Learn 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 FCC: 60 new proceedings in '10 related to broadband plan The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will launch more than 60 rulemaking and other proceedings in 2010 in an effort to implement the national broadband plan it released in March, the agency said. Read More 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! Don't forget file sharing performance Consolidating 10 dispersed branch offices into one virtualized data center 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 IT management and automation market shrinks, yet players grow Run-book automation vendor iWave Software acquires data center orchestration and cloud management provider Enigmatec, while MokaFive picks up $21 million in venture capital funding for its virtual desktop management suite. Read More Integrating social computing and unified communications Arguably the key benefit of unified communications (UC) is reducing human latency, allowing individuals to speed the time it takes them to find the right person for a particular problem. Presence-enabled communications takes the guesswork out of trying to figure out how best to reach someone (telephone, cell phone, IM, e-mail, etc.), creating opportunities to improve customer response, sales support and project completion times. Read 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
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