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	Prepare for the era of the data center in a box Start-up SimpliVity is the latest vendor to emerge from the development stage with an all-in-one array that performs all the functions of a complete IT stack with the addition of deduplication and data replication. More companies and products are preparing similar launches. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Make Your Sharepoint Social Date: 8/21/2012 Time: 1:00 pm ET IBM can help extend your current SharePoint implementation to include true social capabilities reducing the friction associated with discovering, sharing and collaborating within a team, across the company or with your business partners and customers. Learn More In this Issue Floods, fires, hurricanes… how do you prepare for data center disasters? Cisco, SDNs, and CDNs SDNs: Love 'em or Leave 'em? Apple, Facebook put Prineville on the map Cisco readying a new Nexus switch WHITE PAPER: Teradata Experts Share the Five Pieces of Private Cloud Success Private clouds are emerging as a way for enterprises to take advantage of many of the benefits of the cloud model, but with less risk. This eBook discusses why private cloud models are the best choice for many organizations today. Learn more. Floods, fires, hurricanes… how do you prepare for data center disasters? Floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, power surges. There are plenty of disasters that can derail your data center operations. How you prepare for the worst? Do you have a disaster preparedness and response plan in place? How confident are you that your company could recover if a significant disaster were to make your main data center inaccessible? Please take our confidential survey and let us know.... Read More Cisco, SDNs, and CDNs Guest post by Scott Landman, Founder & Managing Partner Arcus Advisors, LLC Cisco's content delivery networking offering, Cisco Content Delivery System, part of the much larger Next-Generation Network Solutions for Videoscape, has not been met with an enthusiastic response by service providers, with only Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Microsoft Dynamics AX solutions from IBM IBM provides consulting, implementation and application management services for Microsoft Dynamics AX, a comprehensive ERP solution for midsize and larger organizations that empowers people to work effectively, manage change, and compete globally. Learn More. SDNs: Love 'em or Leave 'em? Are Software Defined Networks (SDN) on your short list yet? Two recent surveys suggest it depends on where you work. I say that given our recent experiences with SDN, within five years and everyone will adopt or have definitive plans to adopt SDN technology. Here's why: Read More Apple, Facebook put Prineville on the map Apple and Facebook this week each filed plans to expand data center operations in Prineville, Ore., a little community that's on its way to becoming one of the largest data center locations in U.S. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed How to Improve Data Center Security while Reducing Sprawl Download this useful case study to learn how organization's like yours have benefitted from improved data security and performance through snapshotting, encryption, and removal of storage media from remote offices. Learn more. Cisco readying a new Nexus switch Cisco has another Nexus Ethernet data center switch in the works, this one with ultra-low latency and a more formidable rival to Infiniband. Read More
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