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	IETF attendees re-engineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network What happens when a bunch of IETF super nerds show up in Paris for a major conference and discover their hotel's Wi-Fi network has imploded? Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Silver Peak's Advantages in a Disaster Recovery Environment Why do industry analysts agree Silver Peak is the WAN Optimization vendor of choice for offsite data replication? It starts with a unique, next generation architecture. Read more. In this Issue IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S. 10 funny (?) April Fools' pranks - Web style Cisco poaching rivals for SDN spin-in IT execs must deal soon with worker use of social tools Considerations for modernizing your network Dissecting Cisco's FabricPath Ethernet technology Cisco acquires home network management company 15 best Windows 8 apps to get you started Microsoft dishes on touch hardware and Windows 8 WHITE PAPER: Enterasys Optimizing User Experience Read this whitepaper from a leading industry analyst to learn more about: - The effects of virtualization on the network - Defining an enterprise network fabric - Business benefits of an enterprise-wide network fabric - What to look for in a solution provider Learn More. IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S. U.S. officials Thursday said that offshoring will hurt the growth of programming jobs in in this decade, though expansion of health care IT and mobile networks will increase demand for software developers, technical support and system analysts. Read More 10 funny (?) April Fools' pranks - Web style Our roundup of some of 2011's Internet-based April Fools' pranks should get you in the mood for this year's inevitable crop. Get ready to wince. Read More Cisco poaching rivals for SDN spin-in Insieme Networks - the proper name of the SDN start-up that may be spun into Cisco - is actively recruiting people from around the Valley, according to two posts in the blogosphere this week. The recruits are not just coming from Cisco: SDNs start-ups Nicira and Big Switch have reportedly been hit, and Arista is targeted but says it hasn't lost anyone yet. Read More WEBCAST: Wildpackets Distributed Network Analysis for Distributed Applications Corporate computing has crossed the threshold to highly distributed -- whether your organization has 50 or 50,000 employees. It's imperative that you distribute your network analysis capabilities. Learn technologies and approaches to best deal with today's highly distributed network applications View Now IT execs must deal soon with worker use of social tools Corporate IT executives and analysts offer advice on dealing with the increased worker use of social networks for business purposes. Read More Considerations for modernizing your network Business applications and the way we use them are undergoing a radical change, and this is leading many companies to modernize their network. Here are some "best practice" considerations for modernization strategies. Read More Dissecting Cisco's FabricPath Ethernet technology Cisco's FabricPath data center Ethernet technology is designed to combine traditional, Spanning Tree-based Ethernet with a next-generation architecture that uses a link-state protocol to allow for multiple active paths. Deploying multiple active paths in a data center network is required to flatten the infrastructure to reduce latency and better support traffic flow between server racks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Optimizing Offsite Disaster Recovery with Virtual WAN Op Learn why one of the world's largest media companies chose Silver Peak virtual WAN Optimization for their cross country replication challenges including an on-demand media database requiring 7 x24 access. Complicating the challenge was a lack of space in the state-of-the-art data center for additional physical hardware. No problem. Learn more. Cisco acquires home network management company Cisco this week said it plans to acquire privately held ClearAccess, a provider of service provisioning and device management software to service providers. Read More 15 best Windows 8 apps to get you started I've tried ALL of the available Windows 8 apps and I have to admit, I enjoyed most of them. They offer a leaner experience of services I've come to know and love. During the entire period of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, all Metro apps are free -- so go out and shop! Here's the best of the bunch. Read More Microsoft dishes on touch hardware and Windows 8 Microsoft continues to dole out an abundance of information related to the company's upcoming OS on the Building Windows 8 blog. In the latest post, Jerry Koh, Group Program Manager, and Jeff Piira, Test Manager, Human Interaction Platform team, dive deep into Windows 8's touch requirements and user-experience goals. Read More
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