Friday, February 24, 2012

Networking Evolves, Getting Easier And More Flexible

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TechWeb Networking News Update -- Issue Highlights:
TOP STORY: Networking Evolves, Getting Easier And More Flexible
ALSO SEE: IPv6: Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance
ANALYTIC REPORT: Fundamentals: Cloud vs. In-House IT: Spend Smart in 2012
WHITE PAPER: Understand Structured and Unstructured Data in Real Time
MOST POPULAR: 10 Android App Hidden Gems
BLOG: Cloudscaling, cloudTP Partner On Scalable, Open Source-Based Cloud Platform
WEBCAST: Webcast: Reinventing Business With Next-Generation Social Collaboration In The Cloud
RESOURCES: Virtual Event: The Future of Multi-Channel Distribution

TechWeb
NETWORKING NEWS UPDATE 
  Friday, February 24, 2012
REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS   |     MOST POPULAR   |     BLOG   |     WEBCASTS   |     RESOURCES  
TOP STORY
Networking Evolves, Getting Easier And More Flexible
New protocols SDN and OpenFlow look like promising ways to cut costs and increase automation.

ALSO SEE
IPv6: Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance
Examine compliance and security considerations for your network as you migrate from IPv4.

HP Unveils All-SSD Storage Array
LeftHand storage family's P4900 includes software that monitors the solid state drive and estimates when it will reach the end of its life.

Google Becomes Largest Public DNS Provider
Search giant's DNS service, now handling 70 billion requests a day, also makes Google more knowledgeable about what people are doing online.

Telcos Poised To Disrupt Amazon's Enterprise Cloud
Telephone companies have the assets and track record in delivering secure and reliable services to grab a piece of the enterprise cloud services market popularized by Amazon and Rackspace.

Hitachi Unveils Nondisruptive Data Migration
Service moves data from older Hitachi arrays to new Virtual Storage Platform arrays without downtime, company says.

  Digital Issue  
DOWNLOAD INFORMATIONWEEK GOVERNMENT'S DIGITAL ISSUE
As federal agencies embrace devices and apps to meet employee demand, the White House seeks one comprehensive mobile strategy.

Also: Smartphone Security; FedRAMP Takes Shape; NIST Lays Out Priorities...and more!


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ANALYTIC REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS:
FEATURED REPORTS
Fundamentals: Cloud vs. In-House IT: Spend Smart in 2012
Are you maintaining extra in-house capacity to handle demand spikes that rarely materialize? Cloud services can help meet scale-out computing and storage needs, but the rent-vs.-buy decision is about more than just elasticity.
DOWNLOAD NOW (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
Featured Report

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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
Understand Structured and Unstructured Data in Real Time
The information powering today's organizations exists in two forms: structured and unstructured. Learn about a groundbreaking information platform that, enables organizations to understand and process 100 percent of enterprise information, structured and unstructured, in real time.
 

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM:
10 Android App Hidden Gems
Heard enough about Angry Birds and Pandora? Check out these 10 lesser-known Android apps to enhance your productivity, well-being, and more.

10 Epic Android Apps
Among the hundreds of thousands of Android apps, we've rounded up 10 epic, must-have choices. These apps will save your bacon, day in and day out.

9 Powerful Business Uses For Tablet Computers
From the warehouse to the sales floor, see how companies creatively use iPads and other tablets to save time and money, sell more, and delight customers. Tablets may even find a home on garbage trucks.

 

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG:
Featured Blogger Cloudscaling, cloudTP Partner On Scalable, Open Source-Based Cloud Platform
By Frank J. Ohlhorst
Cloud technology vendors cloudTP and Cloudscaling are teaming up to offer customers a one-stop shop for building globally scalable clouds that leverage the open-source OpenStack project.

Data Dimension Makes Cloud Adoption Easier
By Sharon Fisher
Dimension Data has announced a series of cloud services for both public and private clouds that are intended to make it easier for organizations to adopt cloud computing more quickly. The services perform functions associated with planning, design, deployment, and management of private, public, and hybrid clouds. The new offerings include the Dimension Data Managed Cloud Platform, which helps deliver the cloud services, and Dimension Data CloudControl, a cloud management system that automates provisioning, orchestration, administration, and billing. Services include advisory and consulting services on cloud enablement, integration services across information technology systems and clouds, managed hosting, managed services, and value-added services such as disaster recovery.

Perdue Streamlines IT Management, Cuts Maintenance Expenses
By Paul Korzeniowski
When Napoleon Crowe, NOC Engineer III, was hired at Perdue (http://www.perdue.com) in early 2007, the SolarWinds Orion management solution was relegated to niche status, mainly monitoring whether network connections were up or down. Gradually, the chicken producer has expanded its use to oversee its Voice over IP (VoIP) connections and data center servers. One of the results of this expansion is that Perdue dumped IBM's Tivoli, its long standing systems management solution, and reduced its annual maintenance costs by $110,000.

 

WEBCASTS:

Webcast: Reinventing Business With Next-Generation Social Collaboration In The Cloud
Sign up for this webinar to see how companies are approaching social business and embracing the spirit of collaboration and community to deliver unprecedented return for the time invested. It happens March 1.
More Information & Registration
 

RESOURCES AND EVENTS:
Virtual Event: The Future of Multi-Channel Distribution
In this all-day virtual event, top business technologists, experts, and solution providers will discuss strategies, essential technologies and evolving regulator/legal issues around the next generation of multi-channel distribution best practices.
It happens March 25-29 in Orlando, Fla.


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