Interop 2011: Full coverage of networking's biggest trade show

	Businesses need to look at security as a military operation | UPDATED: Hot products at Interop 2011
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	How is cloud computing like an airplane? A cloud computing service is like an airliner - even though it can experience devastating crashes that affect many people, like Amazon's crash last month, it's still safer than driving your own car… or IT infrastructure. That's the rationale provided by Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix, during a panel discussion on cloud computing during a keynote address at Interop 2011. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 10 Things to Know about Deduplication You as an IT manager want simple, cost-effective solutions for your complex IT challenges. HP kept this in mind while designing StoreOnce. New technologies, such as deduplication can be difficult to understand but StoreOnce powered by Intel Xeon® processor 5500 series makes it simple. Read More! In this Issue Businesses need to look at security as a military operation UPDATED: Hot products at Interop 2011 Intel, partners push for cloud standards Interop: Cloud services take a beating in debate over security Interop 2011: HP 8200 switch, a sad Startup Alley and too much cloud Innovation smackdown: Meg Whitman vs. Eric Schmidt Neat Net Stories from Vint Cerf and Dan Lynch at Interop Cisco plans job cuts, drops growth target Extreme looks to one-up Cisco, others in data center Juniper: Networks inhibit 'exponential' data center HP takes swipes at Cisco on Interop stage Akamai and Riverbed team to speed hybrid cloud performance What big wireless questions remain? Day 1 of Interop: Avaya, Cisco, Juniper and lots of technology chatter Cisco launches wireless LAN Flex controller RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Kingston Technology The VMware vSphere 4.0 Edition The Yin and Yang of Memory Virtualization Click to continue Businesses need to look at security as a military operation Businesses need to look at security as a military exercise and can benefit from strategies that have proved useful in battle, a former military security expert told an Interop audience this week. Read More UPDATED: Hot products at Interop 2011 Extreme, A10 and F5 among those showing off new gear. Read More Intel, partners push for cloud standards Intel and its partners in the Open Data Center Alliance are working to extend cloud computing so the technology can overcome criticism from Internet guru Vinton Cerf and others. Read More Interop: Cloud services take a beating in debate over security Cloud services are not secure enough for businesses to use, or at least that was the conclusion drawn by attendees of an Interop debate, although all of the participants acknowledged the real answer was more subtle. Read More Interop 2011: HP 8200 switch, a sad Startup Alley and too much cloud I visited Start Up Alley, and was very disappointed to find there were only four companies there. I have always supported the startups at Interop, but I didn't see any that caught my interest this year. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Lab to Live: Smooth Virtualization Transitions Join this webcast, Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT, to learn the best practices for post implementation of virtualized servers in your environment. Discover what challenges to look out for and how to prepare to avoid pitfalls ensuring total protection for your systems, applications and data. Learn More Innovation smackdown: Meg Whitman vs. Eric Schmidt Ebay's Meg Whitman looks to rebound from a loss in the California governor's race last year while pouring millions of her own money into the campaign. She remains a leader in the industry by taking the online auction site to new heights. She goes up against Eric Schmidt who as Buzzblog editor Paul McNamara put it, made the greatest career move ever when he left Novell for Google. Read More Neat Net Stories from Vint Cerf and Dan Lynch at Interop Interstellar networks. Padding Statements of Work in US DoD contracts to encourage the development of the Internet. Turning off the old protocols on the Internet, for a day, to encourage the adoption of the "new" TCP/IP protocols. The plan to use OSI layer 3 protocols (well, kinda) instead of IPv6. All these topics, and more, were part of an interesting pair of discussions at Interop yesterday. Read More Cisco plans job cuts, drops growth target Cisco Systems plans to eliminate jobs as it focuses in on core businesses such as routing and switching, the company's executives said on Wednesday after announcing an 11 percent decline in third-quarter profit. Read More Extreme looks to one-up Cisco, others in data center At Interop this week, Extreme Networks rolled out two switches designed to migrate users from legacy data center infrastructures into cloud computing environments. Read More Juniper: Networks inhibit 'exponential' data center Current networks inhibit large-scale data centers, which require new fabric architectures, a Juniper official said during his keynote address at the Interop conference today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Ensuring Disaster Recovery with Equalizer and Envoy In this paper, we'll explore how to use Coyote Point's Envoy to ensure 24x7 availability and fast connections for web content deployed at more than one geo¬graphic location or data center. See this and other independent product reviews available by clicking here. Read More HP takes swipes at Cisco on Interop stage It's not often HP and Cisco share the same stage during a keynote address. But today at Interop that's exactly what they did -- and HP didn't share the stage nicely. Read More Akamai and Riverbed team to speed hybrid cloud performance Riverbed and Akamai are teaming up to offer technology and services that promise to optimize WAN traffic more effectively when it travels between corporate data centers and cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) providers. Read More What big wireless questions remain? One of the technology tracks at this week's Interop conference and exhibition in Las Vegas will address the biggest trends and issues in wireless networking. Read More Day 1 of Interop: Avaya, Cisco, Juniper and lots of technology chatter It's Tuesday AM in Vegas and the official start of the 25th Interop trade show. I arrived yesterday, got some early meetings in, and I've already heard my share on industry banter. Here are some quick highlights. Read More Cisco launches wireless LAN Flex controller Cisco Tuesday unveiled a wireless LAN controller that allows centralized management of up to 500 branch office locations from one data center. Read More
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