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	Brocade buys Cisco nemesis Vyatta Brocade has announced its acquisition of Vyatta, a privately held maker of open source-based network software, for an undisclosed amount of cash. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Schneider Electric In today's world, knowledge = power. Arm yourself with the latest courses on theory and practice in designing an efficient data center. Through our FREE online education program, you can update your credentials, increase your understanding of power, cooling, efficiency, and management concepts! In addition, increase your value to your organization--or retrain for the next one! We provide over 60 courses in a variety of topics that keep you up to the minute and expand your knowledge. It's powerful! And FREE! Register today and access the learning that has taught thousands worldwide. Data Center University. In this Issue AMD announces fastest 16-core server chips as ARM future looms VMware CTO: Adapt, enable choice, or die Windows 8 faces a slow road to the enterprise GM plans to hire 3,000 HP IT workers NetApp upgrades midrange storage arrays Five Dropbox-savvy apps for iOS INSIDER Inside the DreamWorks data center Lenovo's new enterprise division introduces its first server Dell testing 64-bit ARM server with chip from AppliedMicro Programmer and 'bionic leg' ace 103-story test 8 Real-World Big Data Deployments RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Brocade Communications View Now: Brocade Analyst and Technology Day 2012 Discover the latest innovations from Brocade–and take a significant step toward radically simplified networking. Now you can see for yourself what has the media and industry experts talking by viewing an on-demand version of Brocade Analyst and Technology Day 2012. Click to continue AMD announces fastest 16-core server chips as ARM future looms With a future in ARM servers looming, Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced its fastest 16-core Opteron 6300 server chips as the company continues to enhance its x86 chips. Read More VMware CTO: Adapt, enable choice, or die To some outsiders looking in, VMware has gone through quite a change recently by purchasing two companies, embracing OpenStack enabling multi-cloud support. CTO Steve Herrod says it's all part of the broader plan. Read More Windows 8 faces a slow road to the enterprise Having finally launched its next-generation operating system, Windows 8, Microsoft now faces what may be its most daunting marketing challenge ever. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now GM plans to hire 3,000 HP IT workers Hewlett-Packard has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to the General Motors payroll, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house Read More NetApp upgrades midrange storage arrays NetApp today announced significant upgrades to two of its midrange Fabric Attached Storage arrays, boosting memory, processor cores and drive slots. Read More Five Dropbox-savvy apps for iOS By all accounts, Dropbox rocks. It ranks up there with sliced bread and chocolate fountains, offering simple cloud storage that syncs across your various devices. 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 INSIDER Inside the DreamWorks data center The data center infrastructure at DreamWorks Imagination Studios is certainly state of the art, but it doesn't make as much use of cloud, virtualization solid-state storage technologies as one might expect. Insider (registration required) Read More Lenovo's new enterprise division introduces its first server Looking beyond PCs and tablets, Lenovo on Monday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group, which deals in servers, storage, networking and software. Read More Dell testing 64-bit ARM server with chip from AppliedMicro Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Read More Programmer and 'bionic leg' ace 103-story test Software engineer using mind-controlled prosthetic limb scales Chicago tower Read More 8 Real-World Big Data Deployments The amount of data in the world doubles every 18 months. Here's a look at eight real-world big data deployments in a variety of industries. Read More
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