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	Alcatel-Lucent to take on Cisco, VMware in crowding SDN field Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualization. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Anixter Free Virtual Event on Data Center Efficiency & Profitability Join Anixter for a virtual event on December 4, 2012 & learn how you can implement exciting new strategies & technologies to manager power, introduce flexibility & adapt to sustainability policies for your data center. Hear from industry experts, submit questions online & chat with sponsors in the virtual exhibit hall, all from your own computer! Learn more and register at Anixter.com/2012virtualDC In this Issue Windows 8 sales hit 40 million in first month 5 things to watch for at Amazon cloud conference Java inventor James Gosling building smart marine robots Nearly two-dozen bugs easily found in critical infrastructure software User ranked top LTE smartphones Ipanema will offer WAN optimization as a small business service Cisco, other router rivals challenged by economy, competition Red Hat rolls out private PaaS Get a grip: 18 winter gloves that work with smartphones, tablets NEC data center units to use convection to cut power use by 30 percent RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! Windows 8 sales hit 40 million in first month Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses since Oct. 26 when the new operating system became available. Read More 5 things to watch for at Amazon cloud conference Pretty much anyone watching the cloud computing market will tell you that Amazon Web Services is its 800-pound gorilla. Which means that this is a big week for the company: On Wednesday in Las Vegas, Amazon kicks off its first user conference, called AWS re: Invent. Read More Java inventor James Gosling building smart marine robots James Gosling, the inventor of the Java programming language when he worked at Sun Microsystems, finds the security framework for Java he designed still stands up after all these years. In fact he's using it today to design marine robots that can be sent across the ocean to gather weather data or carry out research projects. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Scaling Out Data Centers Organizations of all sizes are facing daunting challenges as they struggle to adapt their data center networks to new technologies and applications. The move toward cloud architectures in particular is demanding a high-performance network interconnect that can host servers potentially numbering in the thousands. Read Now Nearly two-dozen bugs easily found in critical infrastructure software In the time it took to cook a Thanksgiving turkey, a researcher found nearly two-dozen vulnerabilities in software used in industrial control systems found in power plants, airports and manufacturing facilities. Read More User ranked top LTE smartphones Here's what customers of three carriers say about their LTE smartphone purchases. Read More Ipanema will offer WAN optimization as a small business service Ipanema Technologies, the France-based maker of WAN optimization gear, announced Monday that it would integrate that technology into the company's AppsWork product, which is designed for use by small businesses. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now Cisco, other router rivals challenged by economy, competition The worldwide carrier routing and switching markets dropped a bit in the third quarter, decreasing 2.5% from last year and 1.7% from Q2, to $2.75 billion. Read More Red Hat rolls out private PaaS Red Hat is officially jumping into the cloud platform as a service (PaaS) market. Read More Get a grip: 18 winter gloves that work with smartphones, tablets Smart gloves with conductive fabrics let you operate smartphones, tablets and e-readers without exposing your digits. Read More NEC data center units to use convection to cut power use by 30 percent NEC is working on a new type of small data center unit that uses convection to slash power usage by a third, even in Japan's hot, sticky climate. Read More
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