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	Juniper offers fabric for high-performance clouds Juniper has a three-pronged cloud strategy that includes selling networking gear in the data centers of most major IaaS players, providing secure connections between virtual data centers and cloud customers, and orchestrating how virtualized resources get allocated to cloud application services. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now In this Issue Cisco a no show in 40G Ethernet market report Gartner predictions for 2012: More cloud, consumerization, loss of IT control WAN optimization: Network vs. application layer optimization 10 most powerful cloud companies AT&T, China Telecom to share infrastructure Citrix Receiver bring full-fledged desktop apps to smartphones and tablets Two-thirds of firewall managers lack confidence in their security posture Clearwire plans $300 million stock offering for LTE HP server revenue falls in turbulent quarter, Gartner says Skip data tiering, go directly to all-SSD storage, Forrester says WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL The Next Generation is the Smart Generation Innovations such as mobility, Web 2.0, social media and cloud computing have dramatically changed the IT landscape and introduced new security threats into the corporate network. This eBook investigates why traditional firewalls are no longer enough, and how application intelligence and control enable network security in the wake of these changes. Read more. Cisco a no show in 40G Ethernet market report Market research firm Dell'Oro Group recently began tracking the 40G Ethernet market as 10G takes hold and grows, necessitating 40G uplinks, aggregation switches and core modules. And the market leaders are IBM and Extreme Networks. Read More Gartner predictions for 2012: More cloud, consumerization, loss of IT control IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerization and cloud computing, Gartner says in its vision for 2012 and the coming years. Read More WAN optimization: Network vs. application layer optimization The application layer of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) stack has long been regarded as a focal point for wide area network (WAN) optimization. Efforts to optimize application delivery were centered here because the pain was rooted in optimizing only a handful of specific applications at branch or remote offices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Visualization of an Intricate Network The Depository Trust & Clearing House required enhanced network visibility to support their custody and asset servicing valued at $40 trillion. See how Riverbed provided: • End-to-end visibility of encrypted traffic • Lower MTTR • Application and network activity analysis without requiring probes on every WAN link Learn more! 10 most powerful cloud companies Virtually every vendor has a cloud story to tell. But here are 10 companies that have distinguished themselves as the leaders in cloud computing, either by being first to market, by offering the broadest and deepest set of cloud services or by taking a leadership role in the cloud revolution. Read More AT&T, China Telecom to share infrastructure AT&T and China Telecom signed an agreement to share telecommunications infrastructure across the U.S. and China, in a move meant to help their business customers. Read More Citrix Receiver bring full-fledged desktop apps to smartphones and tablets The BYOD phenomenon shows no signs of abating, and many companies continue to struggle with the best (read: safest) way to give workers access to corporate applications via employee-owned smart devices. Citrix Receiver leverages the security of a Citrix XenDesktop or XenApp infrastructure to bring full-blown desktop applications to smartphones and tablet PCs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix 8 Reasons Why Citrix Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. Shift up to the Cloud. Download 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Read now Two-thirds of firewall managers lack confidence in their security posture In its annual firewall management survey, Tufin Technologies uncovered some disheartening details. For example, 1 in 4 firewall managers have never conducted an audit, and 66% of the managers think their processes put them at risk of a security breach. The alarm is sounding for a giant wake-up call. Read More Clearwire plans $300 million stock offering for LTE Clearwire plans to raise as much as $345 million in stock transactions to help fund its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network deployment and other activities. Read More HP server revenue falls in turbulent quarter, Gartner says Worldwide server revenue grew 5.2% in the third quarter but declined for HP, Gartner Inc. said in a report on server sales during the quarter. Read More Skip data tiering, go directly to all-SSD storage, Forrester says Companies may want to skip using a tiered storage architecture and move directly to an all-solid-state-drive (SSD) architecture, according to a new report from Forrester Research. Read More
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