What are the killer apps for software defined networks?

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	What are the killer apps for software defined networks? With its ability to decouple network control from the physical infrastructure, OpenFlow and software-defined networks have been touted as the Next Big Thing in networking. They've been pitched as a way for cloud service providers and webscale companies like Google, Facebook and Yahoo to ease or automate network configuration and reconfiguration, and quickly add more functionality without manually touching each and every switch or router in the network. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: HP I.T. WORKS BETTER TOGETHER. With HP Converged Infrastructure solutions powered by Intel®, you can spend over 70% of time & IT budget on innovation, not maintenance. HP Converged Infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking, security management software into turnkey systems that accelerate IT, reduce application provisioning time by 75% & get you ready for the cloud. In this Issue The 10 mightiest supercomputers on Earth Cisco ends the SDN suspense HP announces low-power server system with upcoming Atom chip US reclaims top spot on Top500 supercomputing list HP CEO Whitman tries to reassure users as cuts loom Open source: Leading the way for big data applications Facebook CTO Bret Taylor to leave 'later this summer' What Hadoop can, and can't do Is Juniper's QFabric a Big Deal or a Big Bust? Snopes.com debunks old C++ 'interview' hoax WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Traditional WLAN vs. ADTRAN's Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN) The substantial differences between a traditional hardware controller-based wireless LAN and ADTRAN's virtual wireless LAN (hypervisor-based) are detailed in ADTRAN's WLAN vs. vWLAN comparison chart. Learn more. The 10 mightiest supercomputers on Earth Our look at the biggest, baddest computing machines in current use Read More Cisco ends the SDN suspense At long last, the wait - and suspense - is over. Read More HP announces low-power server system with upcoming Atom chip Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday introduced a low-power server system called Gemini that will be based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor, code-named Centerton. Read More WHITE PAPER: Box Disaster Recovery Services Providers Evaluation Improvements in disaster recovery plans and broad business continuity strategies are top-of-mind concerns for leading enterprises today and recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. These key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report. Read Now! US reclaims top spot on Top500 supercomputing list The U.S. once again has the most powerful supercomputer in the world, thanks to the U.S. Department of Energy's Sequoia, according to the latest edition of the Top500 supercomputer list, ending Asia's hold on the top spot. Sequoia's 1.57 million processor cores can perform 16.32 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point calculations per second). Read More HP CEO Whitman tries to reassure users as cuts loom As Meg Whitman, HP's CEO, took the stage at the recent HP Discover conference, the thousands sitting in the cavernous hall applauded politely -- and then stopped. Read More Open source: Leading the way for big data applications The "big data" term has been used since 2009, but has quickly turned into the biggest thing to hit information technology since the virtualization craze of the last decade. Enterprises are awash with data, having amassed terabytes and even petabytes of information. When the amount of data in the world increases at an exponential rate, analyzing that data and producing intelligence from it becomes increasingly complex -- but no less important to the success of an organization. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath 6 Best Practices to Ensure a Thorough Evaluation Identify 6 key situations that demonstrate when it's time to consider managed network services, plus 6 best practices to ensure your evaluation of managed network service providers is thorough enough to support your decision. View Now Facebook CTO Bret Taylor to leave 'later this summer' Facebook's chief technology officer, Bret Taylor, will leave the company later this summer, according to a post on his Facebook page Friday. Read More What Hadoop can, and can't do The lure of using big data for your business is a strong one, and there is no brighter lure these days than Apache Hadoop, the scalable data storage platform that lies at the heart of many big data solutions. 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 Snopes.com debunks old C++ 'interview' hoax For anyone bearing the brunt of an Internet hoax that just won't die, there's little more to hope for in terms of potential relief than a story on Snopes.com stating unequivocally that the hoax is indeed a hoax. After all, Snopes is the gold standard when it comes to debunking nonsense. Computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup received precisely that maximum measure of support a week ago, yet the man... Read More
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