A Next-generation Enterprise WAN architecture

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	A Next-generation Enterprise WAN architecture Enterprise WANs have changed very little in the last 15 or so years. While price/bit for the Enterprise WAN has improved somewhat over that time, it hasn't increased with Moore's Law as has computing, storage, Internet access, LAN switching … and pretty much everything else associated with IT. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Get more out of cloud with a structured workload analysis Adopting cloud technology is a reasonably easy decision. Figuring out when and how to get the most value from cloud computing is the next—often more challenging—step. Read this white paper to learn how a robust analysis of your workloads can help identify candidates for your target cloud environments. Read Now In this Issue Why NEW architecture will happen More fun with naming wireless nets A Report on ICANN 43: New gTLDs and DNSSEC Cisco acquires service provider device management company IETF plays Hide-and-Go-Seek with April Fools privacy protocol Dissecting Cisco's FabricPath Ethernet technology Cisco acquires home network management company 10 fun (and safe) ways to pretend to be a hacker 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. Why NEW architecture will happen In my first column, I described a Next-generation Enterprise WAN ("NEW" for short) architecture. Here I'd like to cover why this NEW architecture will be widely deployed over the next few years. Part of the reason – and some would argue, the primary reason – is, to paraphrase Bill Clinton and James Carville, "It's the economics, stupid!" Read More More fun with naming wireless nets "Had to redo our wireless network this morning," Craig Fifield writes on Google+, "figured I might as well freak out the neighbors :)." You can see what he means in the picture. I thought the v2 part was a nice touch. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Software BMC Control-M - Single Point of Control Demo With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything — down to the very last platform and application — from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really — the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can. Learn More! A Report on ICANN 43: New gTLDs and DNSSEC The Internet's governing body, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, holds three public meetings per year to discuss how ICANN can help make the network more secure and to encourage end-to-end interoperability. The most recent meeting in Costa Rica in March featured two rich information sharing sessions, one on the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) program and the other on Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). Read More Cisco acquires service provider device 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 WHITE PAPER: BMC Six Characteristics of an Effective Solution Automation Get best practices and real-world examples for using a data delivery system that works with your workload automation solution in this white paper. Learn More! IETF plays Hide-and-Go-Seek with April Fools privacy protocol IETF pranksters this weekend revealed their latest April Fools' Day requests for comments, including one that outlines use of Hide-and-Go-Seek techniques to encourage network privacy. 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 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 10 fun (and safe) ways to pretend to be a hacker Enjoy hacking, Hollywood-style, with these video games Read More
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