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	Are you ready for networking in the cloud? The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last few years, the primary focus of the IaaS providers has been on offering the basic compute and storage resources required to run applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco Unified Communications Business Edition 5000 Cisco Unified Communications Manager Business Edition 5000 is designed to deliver enterprise-level unified communications and collaboration performance to your employees to help you serve your customers and achieve your long-term business goals. Read now! In this Issue Brocade on the block again? Dropbox adds new file-sharing service for work groups LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage Quantum offers $5K deduplication appliance for SMBs Is Cloud-Based Security in Your Future? PETMAN: a humanoid robot so real it's spooky Coolest Mac-o-lanterns from around the world WHITE PAPER: Oracle Optimizing Information with a Tiered Storage Architecture Oracle's approach to the use of tiered storage provides a solution that optimizes performance, cost and capacity across the breadth of storage media available today. Learn more. Brocade on the block again? Brocade is reportedly shopping itself around again, two years after failing to find a buyer the first time. According to The Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter," Brocade rehired investment bank Qatalyst Partners to stoke interest in the company again. Read More Dropbox adds new file-sharing service for work groups Dropbox for Teams starts at $795 annually for five users and offers 1TB of storage. It also comes with phone customer support and gives IT shops control to add or remove users. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Hardware Load Balancing A comprehensive F5 solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Learn More! LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce LSI Corporation today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire SandForce, a leading provider of flash storage processors for enterprise and client PCIe-based flash cards and solid-state drives. Read More EMC to put hardware in servers, VMs in storage EMC held its user forum last week at the home of the New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, using the opportunity to expound on its vision for virtualization and the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Four Steps to Dynamic Workload Management In the beginning, IT ran on one platform - the mainframe. Workloads were predictable and stable, and we could schedule accordingly. But then came Unix, AS/400, Windows and a multitude of other platforms, all with accompanying workloads. Learn More! Quantum offers $5K deduplication appliance for SMBs Quantum's new NDX-8 NAS appliance delivers 8TB of capacity with built-in backup software and deduplication technology, offering to reduce storage requirements by up to 90%. Read More Is Cloud-Based Security in Your Future? Hi ho, hi ho it's off to the cloud we go! We go to the cloud for office applications, CRM, email, computing, storage, etc. Increasingly, we go to the cloud for security services. It's interesting that while the cloud delivers some of the greatest security threats it also delivers some of the greatest security opportunities—opportunities that up until now have only been available as on-premise... Read More PETMAN: a humanoid robot so real it's spooky Whether the Halloween timing is coincidental or not, this robot's latest video release from Boston Dynamics is evoking comparisons to The Terminator. Watch PETMAN in action: Here's how robotics maker Boston Dynamics describes PETMAN on YouTube: Read More Coolest Mac-o-lanterns from around the world Pumpkin carvers honor Jobs, Woz, iPads, iPhones & Macs Read More
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