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	Centrex: It's alive (for now)! Centrex is a lot like the talking plague victim from Monty Python's "Holy Grail": It's not quite dead yet. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Villanova University Master Business Intelligence With Villanova! Learn to make better business decisions and leverage productive analytical techniques that drive better risk assessment and business potential with Villanova's 100% online training and certification in Business Intelligence. Enroll by 2/29/12 and save up to 25% on your 3-course master certificate. Click to continue In this Issue IRS pumps up iPhone, Android app for tax savvy IPv6 Week: This Brazilian party is for techies only White House science/technology extravaganza U.S. to use climate to help cool exascale systems Nicira peels back the curtain on the future of networking - Interview with Nicira CTO Martin Casado Software-Defined Networking Evolution (Not Revolution) Under Way Riverbed announces new Steelhead Platform in CX/EX and Product in Granite Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed New Juniper routers converge the access net HP moves load testing software to the cloud Hot authentication tools WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Measuring Private Cloud Payback With 2,000 employees spread across five continents, balancing the tradeoff between complexity and performance is no easy task. See how a natural resources firm leveraged WAN optimization to deploy their private cloud and achieve bandwidth utilization reductions of 70%-90% without having to make changes to routers or QoS configurations. Read now! IRS pumps up iPhone, Android app for tax savvy The first version of the Internal Revenue Service's IRS2Go smartphone app had 350,000 downloads and while that doesn't make it the Angry Birds of the taxpaying set, the new version could be even more popular. More news: White House fires-up science/technology extravaganza Read More IPv6 Week: This Brazilian party is for techies only Forget Mardi Gras. Brazil is hosting a party for techies only this week to encourage deployment of IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol. Read More White House science/technology extravaganza From President Obama firing marshmallow cannon to cool robots, the White House-hosted Science Fair showed off all manner of future technologies Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. A Foundation for Universal WAN Optimization Cloud architectures. Remote access to big data. Application performance in an increasingly networked world. A renewed focus on DR/BC based on instant replication between multiple data centers. All are driving a need for more flexible WAN optimization that can be cost effectively deployed across both private and public networks. Learn more. U.S. to use climate to help cool exascale systems In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab is building a new computing center that will one day house exascale systems. Read More Nicira peels back the curtain on the future of networking - Interview with Nicira CTO Martin Casado Openflow and software-defined networking are being considered by many to be the architecture that will define the future of networking, and nobody is closer to the center of this technology movement than Nicira's Marin Casado, who is considered by many to be the father of OpenFlow. Since its launch, Nicira has been operating in stealth mode, but this week Nicira issued its first press release and providing... Read More Software-Defined Networking Evolution (Not Revolution) Under Way Is it too early or too late to declare 2012 the year of SDN? A few weeks ago, IBM and NEC introduced integrated technologies around OpenFlow for enterprise data centers. Last week, HP announced OpenFlow support with 16 switch models. Finally, early this week, Nicira went public with its Distributed Virtual Network Infrastructure (DVNI). Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel 5 Important Use Cases for UC Many organizations begin by focusing on using UC to enhance user productivity, but they soon find that both productivity and business processes can be improved by UC. Read now! Riverbed announces new Steelhead Platform in CX/EX and Product in Granite Today Riverbed is announcing what I think is their best product to date in Granite. They are also showing two other steelhead models today in the CX and EX. I had the chance to sit down and chat with Bob Gilbert of Riverbed to ask a few questions and learn a little more. Please tell us about your background at Riverbed and what your current position entails. Read More Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred. Read More New Juniper routers converge the access net Juniper Networks this week has unveiled access routers designed to provide an on-ramp to the service provider network from residential, business and mobile networks. Read More HP moves load testing software to the cloud With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in tools that traditionally entailed substantial investments to implement. Read More Hot authentication tools Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Hot authentication tools User name and password doesn't cut it anymore in the world of online financial transactions. New federal rules call for multi-factor authentication schemes to combat growing threats. The latest multi-factor measures focus on biometrics, advanced analytics, and out-of-band techniques utilizing smartphones. CISCO SUBNET Looking for a place where everyone understands your joy and pain with Cisco routers, switches and other gear? Check out our Cisco Subnet, a community of Cisco experts blogging on the latest network topics. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES Anonymity bites Anonymous in attempt to extort Symantec Backdoor in TRENDnet IP cameras provide real-time peeping tom paradise? IPhone 5 release set for summer 2012 -- report Apple warns developers: Don't monkey with App Store rankings The When, Where and How of Cisco vs. Microsoft for Unified Communications Controlling liquor loss with Linux Symantec verifies stolen source code posted by Anonymous is "legitimate" Programmer personality types: 13 profiles in code IPad 3 rumor rollup for the week of Feb. 7 Centrex: It's alive (for now)!
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