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	Cisco looks to secure the data center with new releases Cisco this week introduced a set of security products designed to fortify data centers as they consolidate, virtualize and morph into clouds. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare, part of the SolarWinds Family Support thousands of users without leaving your desk! Remotely manage servers, desktops and laptops in minutes! With DameWare you can remotely manage key elements of your infrastructure - domains, workstations, disk drives, & event logs. You need to resolve Windows, Mac & Linux problems for your end-users quickly, and DameWare lets you perform various critical system management tasks - remotely! Download a fully functional, free trial today and discover why thousands of system administrators use DameWare every day! In this Issue Aging hardware drives core router and switch upgrades Is your disaster recovery plan ready for cloud? Amazon Web Services allows users to sell reserved instances Apple announces major iTunes update High performance computing, the latest 'it' thing in the cloud Apple confirms iCloud mail outage for some users Citrix invests in platform-as-a-service company CumuLogic AMD's new SeaMicro server talks to 5-petabyte storage cluster Testing home routers for World IPv6 launch WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks A Wireless LAN that Understands Apple Let your users wirelessly print from iPads, project in conference rooms, and share content using Apple TVs. Aruba AirGroup makes it possible to use Apple Bonjour services in the enterprise or in classrooms. With AirGroup, only the necessary set of services are made visible to mobile devices, based on the user identity and location. Read now. Aging hardware drives core router and switch upgrades IT departments are grappling with aging network equipment while also juggling demand for new network projects such as unified communications and mobile device management, reports TheInfoPro. Read More Is your disaster recovery plan ready for cloud? Having successfully piloted cloud usage with SaaS applications such as CRM and ERP, many businesses are now looking to replace traditional on-site backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions with cloud-based DR. Gartner predicts that more than 30% of midsize companies will have adopted DR in the cloud or recovery-as-a-service by 2014. That begs the question: Is your business ready to make the leap? Read More Amazon Web Services allows users to sell reserved instances Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced an online marketplace where users of its cloud computing services can sell their reserved server instances to other companies, the company said on Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Next-Generation Application Delivery: Business in the Cloud Download an IDC whitepaper today to examine the business drivers and challenges of the application delivery landscape, and the benefits of adopting a holistic approach that enables growth at the edge of the Internet without sacrificing performance, visibility, and control. Learn More. Apple announces major iTunes update On Wednesday, Apple announced a major update to its iTunes multimedia jukebox and syncing software, with a simplified user interface, the ability to play media from iCloud, a new mini-player, a redesigned iTunes Store, and more. Read More High performance computing, the latest 'it' thing in the cloud Startup ProfitBricks leverages InfiniBand technology to compete with the growing crop of cloud providers offering powerful cloud-based machines. Read More Apple confirms iCloud mail outage for some users iCloud mail service has been down throughout Tuesday--at least for some subscribers to Apple's cloud-based service. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More Citrix invests in platform-as-a-service company CumuLogic Citrix Systems has invested in PaaS (platform-as-a-service) startup CumuLogic, as it sees enterprises embrace new types of applications specifically designed to run in the cloud, the company said on Tuesday. Read More AMD's new SeaMicro server talks to 5-petabyte storage cluster Advanced Micro Devices has launched the first new products from its SeaMicro acquisition earlier this year, including a server that can be linked to a massive, 5-petabyte storage cluster for running large-scale big data and cloud computing applications. Read More Testing home routers for World IPv6 launch The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) hosted its fourth IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) Router Interoperability Test Event the week of April 16 at its facility in Durham, N.H., bringing together both users and suppliers of home router equipment. The goal was to gain perspective on the current status of IPv6 interoperability against the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers and support the Internet Society's (ISOC) World IPv6 Launch. Eight vendors -- Broadcom, CHT-TL IPv6 Testing Lab, D-Link, NDM Systems, Motorola Mobility LLC, Netgear, Time Warner and ZyXEL -- tested ten router implementations using publicly routable IPv6 addresses. Read More
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