The look ahead to a software-controlled world

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	The look ahead to a software-controlled world The buzz at the Interop show in Las Vegas was about software-defined networks, decoupling the network control plane from the data plane and using the OpenFlow protocol to give servers, which inherit network control, access to devices such as switches and routers. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remotely manage with LogMeIn Central Central's web-based management console lets you deploy software, proactively monitor and automate tasks. You can even apply all Windows Updates at the same time to keep systems up-to-date and secure. Try it free for 30 days. In this Issue Consider desktops in the cloud for BYOD How we tested desktops-as-a-service 10 reasons your Wi-Fi speed stinks (and what you can do about it) For the NFL, big is better -- except in IT How to avoid 5 common email management mistakes Cisco on BYOD: Get used to it Preparing your enterprise for World IPv6 launch Does standardized interoperability in data center fabrics matter? Microsoft's social networking site So.cl now open to all users Funds pour into big-data vendors 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! Consider desktops in the cloud for BYOD Desktop-as-a-Service is an interesting way for IT execs to provide cloud-based Windows desktop sessions, as well as shared resources such as storage. DaaS can help companies roll out new desktops and support Bring Your Own Device policies. Read More How we tested desktops-as-a-service We noted the customer intake procedures for each of the five DaaS vendors, focusing on what options and what type of process were used. We set a platform consisting of several Windows 7 virtual machines, as well as a Lenovo T520 running native Windows 7, another T520 running Linux Mint 2, and three MacBooks running Mac OS 5, 6, and 7 respectively, as well as an Apple iPad running iOS 5. Read More 10 reasons your Wi-Fi speed stinks (and what you can do about it) The first 801.11ac chipsets are coming soon, but 802.11n is likely to stick around for many years to come -- both in the business world and our homes. Unfortunately, the 300Mbps (megabits per second) that the n-standard promises rarely delivers anything even close and proves to be a massive bottleneck in the days of 50/100Mbps (or more?) broadband connections, 1080p video streaming, massive backups and so forth. On the business side of things, even menial tasks such as remote desktop or real-time collaboration suffer from a poor Wi-Fi-connection. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Warp Speed: The Nuts and Bolts of Web Acceleration Solutions Enterprises are quickly realizing that they can't achieve the web performance they need by simply deploying their web server on a high-speed network. Improving page rendering speeds incrementally through content caching is no longer enough. It's time to look for dramatic performance gains by applying optimization techniques right at the browser. Learn More! For the NFL, big is better -- except in IT The NFL has big stadiums, big players and big games, but when it comes to computer systems, the league's vice president of IT doesn't use the word big. Read More How to avoid 5 common email management mistakes Email managers have a lot at stake. After all, the volume of global electronic messages sent via email dwarfs all other forms of electronic communication, including social networking. Since the inception of electronic mail, which, according to some Internet historians, can be traced to a small mainframe app called 'MAILBOX' from the mid-1960s, human-to-human messages have been created, transmitted and stored in electronic format. But early email administrators could hardly have envisioned the complexity of current email infrastructure and the concomitant maze of technical, security, business and regulatory challenges. Read More Cisco on BYOD: Get used to it Last week Cisco released some news about the tech topic du jour, BYOD. The main message: companies are less weary of employees using personal devices in the workplace, but security is still a concern. Is anyone surprised here? Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 High-Performance DNS Services in BIG-IP Version 11 To provide high-quality user experiences on the Internet, networks must be designed with optimized, secure, highly available, and high-performance IP services. Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most difficult, but important, IP services to optimize and secure. Learn More Today! Preparing your enterprise for World IPv6 launch Last year on June 8, 2011 we all experienced World IPv6 Day. This was a 24-hour test for web sites to use both an IPv4 and IPv6 addresses simultaneously for the same URL. One June 6, 2012 there will be World IPv6 Launch in which many organizations will enable IPv6 forever. Enterprises will need to prepare for World IPv6 Launch whether or not they are actively participating and enabling IPv6. Read More Does standardized interoperability in data center fabrics matter? Despite interoperability trials and demonstrations involving alternative data center fabric standards, a non-standard fabric technology is said by proponents to be at the front of the pack. Read More Microsoft's social networking site So.cl now open to all users So.cl, an experimental research project from Microsoft, that combines social networking and search to promote learning, is now accepting all users interested in joining the site. Read More Funds pour into big-data vendors Investors have taken note of the surge in enterprise demand for tools that can manipulate and analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data. Read More
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