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	Five needs driving SDNs Five trends in network are driving the transition to software defined networking and programmability. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Ditch Your Spreadsheets with FREE IP Address Tracker Tool! Tired of using home-grown IP address tools to track down conflicting addresses and to see which ones are free? Ditch your spreadsheet for good! Our FREE tool gives you a unified view of your IP address space and the tools to manage it. Download the free IP Address Tracker tool today! 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Datacenter administrators across all industry segments face similar archive challenges. Learn More! What Google's tablet might look like: Seven Nexus 7 concepts Google's rumored upcoming release of a low-cost Nexus tablet has sparked rampant speculation. Read More Original iPhone: Why this guy is still using a 5-year-old smartphone Tihomir Yosifov, a network support engineer for a tech firm in Bulgaria, owns an original iPhone and says it still works great, 5 years after Apple introduced the iconic smartphone. Read More 7 steps to social media stardom Social media is taking up more and more of our time, both at home and work. Many enterprises have even started to treat social media tools as mission-critical, meaning that if you don't start mastering them, your lack of knowledge could impede your career. Read More Ask an IT support pro: When and how to do a screen share session Among the valuable tools I use to help clients troubleshoot technical problems is screen sharing. It's great because it allows me to not only get right into your machine and fix the problem; it also makes it possible to easily demonstrate how I fixed the problem. This way, customers can learn how to fix the problems themselves, saving them time in the future. Read More Gartner: 1/3 of consumer data will be stored in the cloud by '16 Consumer adoption of cloud services will continue to increase in the coming years, with one-third of personal data being stored in the cloud by 2016, Gartner predicts. Read More HP Converged Cloud: the missing (WAN) link In April, HP announced HP Converged Cloud, clearly targeted at the traditional large enterprise market, with a focus on hybrid environments. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Changing the Competitive Dynamics of the Business Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality. Register Now Verizon beefs up with Juniper's PTX Juniper Networks has certainly seen its ups and downs over the past few years. The company is trying to move into new areas while its historical base of strength, routers, is under attack from not only arch-rival Cisco but also a number of other vendors trying to crack the router code, such as Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei. While the potential for share loss is always there, routing has always been something... Read More OpenStack company Piston adds virtual desktop infrastructure Piston Cloud Computing is the first OpenStack-based company to embrace virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), marking OpenStack's entrance into the VDI market dominated by Citrix. Read More Quest says 'strategic bidder' now offering $2.3 billion System management software vendor Quest said Monday that an unnamed "strategic bidder" had submitted an acquisition offer of US$27.50 per share, or approximately $2.3 billion. Read More Apple boosts wages, discounts for retail store employees A New York Times story is being credited for jolting Apple into granting some generous raises for the hourly wage workers who staff the company's retail stores. But the raises were apparently already planned, and announced for early-than-expected release, by Apple's new retail store chief. Read More RIM's rumored breakup is a 'silly fantasy' Unnamed sources "close" to BlackBerry maker Research in Motion dismissed as a "silly fantasy" a story by The Sunday Times of London claiming that the company was considering splitting its hardware and network services groups in to separate businesses. Read More Concurrent Connections: The Secret to Buying Scalable IT Gear IT folk love numbers, so it's somewhat understandable that many buyers may be swept away by the gigabits of WAN capacity a device can saturate and forget about another equally important measurement - connection counts. The number of concurrent connections has grown and continues to grow due to the shift towards Web applications, coupled with the characteristics of mainstream business applications.... Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks How to Choose a Datacenter OTDR This white paper helps fiber installers and network technicians understand the key parameters for selecting an OTDR. Choosing the right device not only solves this new generation of datacenter testing requirements, but also helps professionals work efficiently, and increase the reliability and value of the enterprise fiber network. Learn More! ICANN suspends Digital Archery contest for gTLD program ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) Program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first, the organization announced on Saturday. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news conference in Prague on Monday. Read More Oracle's Hurd to spell out new 'customer experience' product strategy Oracle is planning to build on its acquisitions of companies such as ATG, Fatwire and RightNow with a new product strategy centered around "customer experience management," as co-president Mark Hurd will explain on Monday during an event in New York. Read More First-day buyer of original 2007 iPhone found love and connectivity June 29, 2007, the day the original iPhone went on sale, was a big day for Web developer Honey Berk. She got the Apple smartphone and a fiancé. Read More Mozilla's new silent update fails to boost Firefox 13's uptake Mozilla's new silent updater has not sped up the migration to Firefox 13, according to usage statistics compiled by an Irish metrics company. Read More US judge dismisses Apple patents lawsuit against Motorola A U.S. federal judge Friday ruled that Apple cannot seek an injunction against Motorola Mobility in its smartphone patents lawsuit, tossing out the case "with prejudice," meaning that neither side can refile, although the ruling could be appealed. Read More How Alan Turing set the rules for computing On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born. Read More Data center fabrics catching on, slowly Early adopters say the expense and time spent to revamp a data center's switching gear are well worth it; benefits include killer bandwidth and more flexibility. Read More
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