Cisco has some more company in SDNs

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	Cisco has some more company in SDNs Stealthy data center start-up Plexxi is revealing a tiny bit more about itself. The company blogged this week that it is now entering "private beta" with its products, the substance of which Plexxi is still tight-lipped about. In the blog, it describes them as a "networking system from the ground up" for enterprise data centers, addressing current pain points of network automation and scale: Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon Put the Power of Application Acceleration to Work Discover a new, non-appliance approach to improving application performance for mobile workers. Through data compression, content-aware data deduplication (using a single instance history store), and by a variety of advanced protocol handling methods and application blueprints, users can see 50%-90% improved throughput. Learn more. In this Issue When CTOs Quit, What's Next? Commercial enterprises are putting our critical infrastructure at risk US wants inventive ways to get research out of university labs and into the real world INSIDER Is Cisco getting squeezed by SDNs? Application performance: The key goal of WAN optimization Security: An Inconvienient Truth Is Juniper's QFabric a Big Deal or a Big Bust? Hadoop becomes critical cog in the big data machine WHITE PAPER: Certeon Reduce Network Traffic between VMware VMs Accelerate application performance within your VMware environment. The industry's first virtual appliance for application acceleration for VMware combines high performance of application acceleration with cost-savings of virtualization. It significantly reduces network traffic between VMs. Learn more. When CTOs Quit, What's Next? With his announcement to quit the largest and the most popular social networking site soon via a Facebook post, Bret Taylor joins the league of some of the famous high-profiled CTOs of multi-million dollar organizations such as Microsoft, Google and NASA among others who quit to pursue other interests. Read More Commercial enterprises are putting our critical infrastructure at risk Cybercriminals have already figured out how to hack into enterprise infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure that controls our nation's supply of water, gas, oil and electricity just might be next. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. US wants inventive ways to get research out of university labs and into the real world The federal government funded some $135 billion in research and development (R&D) for all manner of science and technology and is now looking for a way to get a faster return on such investments. Or at least that was the focus of a congressional Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation hearing this week looking for ways to improve collaboration between commercial concerns and nonprofit organizations,... Read More INSIDER Is Cisco getting squeezed by SDNs? The latest buzzword in the tech industry is undoubtedly software-defined networking. SDNs are touted as being able to extend virtual LANs, create security zones as well as establish Bring Your Own Device policies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cisco Bring Your Own Device This paper explores the challenges mobile devices create for IT, offers key considerations before adopting a BYOD strategy and highlights a comprehensive architecture from Cisco that enables freedom of choice for users while affording IT security and control. Learn more. Application performance: The key goal of WAN optimization As the WAN matures, with advances in robust applications, cloud delivery and other technologies, optimization tools have had to keep pace. It is no longer just about classic compression and protocol acceleration. The new role is about application performance, delivering everything from application visibility to quality of service (QoS) control. In short, the focus is on true WAN governance. Read More Security: An Inconvienient Truth One of the things I dislike about being a security person is the "we are the people who say no or make it harder than it has to be". For many people the security team are the people who just seem to live to make it harder. We don't let them use wireless, surf web sites they want to go to, engage in social media activities, install applications, change their passwords, etc. etc. I get it. No one... Read More Is Juniper's QFabric a Big Deal or a Big Bust? Many vendors will claim to have invented the term "network fabric." I'm not 100% sure who actually used it first but in my mind, Juniper was the first to go mainstream with it. It's a little like MPLS was back in the day. Ipsilon actually invented it but Cisco evangelized it and made it a real market. So I'll give Juniper the nod here and acknowledge that launching the project "Stratus"... Read More Hadoop becomes critical cog in the big data machine As more and more companies use Hadoop to handle big data, anticipation for forthcoming Version 2.0 grows Read More
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