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	Cisco sacrificing one for another? Just as Cisco is reportedly looking to shed its Linksys home router business, which it acquired in 2003 for $500 million, more speculation surfaces that the company may make an even bigger splash in an effort to energize growth. Bloomberg reports that Cisco's appetite for growth-through-expansion means that storage player NetApp, virtualization partner Citrix and cloud provid 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 In this Issue INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Addressing WAN packet loss – borrowing from the CDN/ADN world End of an era: Kodak sells patent portfolio for $525 million Boeing uses 20,000 lbs. of potatoes to check aircraft wireless network signals Future smart spies: Innovative leaps in 2012 10 of the most useful cloud databases The 2012 tech news quiz Top 12 Big Data Stories of 2012 NASA Inspector General doubts space agency can hit mandatory computer encryption goals Prediction time: 2013 will not be the year of SDN 7 Technologies Poised for Failure in 2013 WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Eliminate Packet Loss during 10G Monitoring There are a number of choices for deploying packed-based monitoring and analysis against 10G segments, but as traffic volumes grow, the limitations of many options become problematic. This EMA paper examines the issues surrounding 10G network management and monitoring with emphasis on effective packed-based instrumentation. Read More INSIDER Citrix: What kind of company is it anyway? Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing. Read More Addressing WAN packet loss – borrowing from the CDN/ADN world We continue our discussion of what can be done to address the impact of packet loss on application performance over the WAN. We've covered three of the six different possibilities listed in the first column of this arc. Read More End of an era: Kodak sells patent portfolio for $525 million With an eye toward emerging from bankruptcy in 2013 Kodak today said it sold its formidable patent portfolio for $525 million to a consortium that will ultimately license pieces of the collection to other companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook. Read More WEBCAST: Meru Networks Impact of 802.11ac on WLAN In this webinar, industry expert Craig Mathias and Robert Crisp from Meru Networks will discuss the impact 802.11ac will have on enterprise WLAN networks and how to best prepare for it. Learn more. Boeing uses 20,000 lbs. of potatoes to check aircraft wireless network signals Boeing calls it Project SPUDS or rather Synthetic Personnel Using Dielectric Substitution - that is, using sacks of potatoes perched on aircraft seats to test the effectiveness of wireless signal in an airliner cabin. Boeing said it was researching an advanced way to test wireless signals in airplane and needed a way to effectively simulate say 200-300 people sitting in seats throughout the aircraft.... Read More Future smart spies: Innovative leaps in 2012 When it comes to combining biometrics and smart devices, the future is now. Here is a look at three technological "smart" leaps that happened in 2012. Smart gaming touchscreen recognizes your touch Read More 10 of the most useful cloud databases Big data is becoming a big deal and cloud providers want to be the place where enterprises databases live. 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 The 2012 tech news quiz From the Facebook IPO to McAfee on the run to the much needed iPad Mini, 2012 has been a busy and wild year in technology Read More Top 12 Big Data Stories of 2012 The holidays are here and 2012 is on its way out, ending a huge year for Big Data. It's time to reflect on the most popular Big Data stories and tips of the year. Read More NASA Inspector General doubts space agency can hit mandatory computer encryption goals NASA's Inspector General said this week it doubts the space agency can hit its own mandatory deadline to encrypt all laptops by December 21. The IG's office has written scathing reports on NASA's the encryption efforts in the past year and the latest item was no exception: Read More Prediction time: 2013 will not be the year of SDN Well, it's hard to believe but the year is almost up and there are only a mere couple of weeks until we ring in the New Year. So that makes it prediction time for us industry analysts and I'd like to share mine with you. So, drum roll please… Read More 7 Technologies Poised for Failure in 2013 Which technologies and products will be put out to pasture in 2013? Some are no-brainers, some others might say are poised for a comeback and a couple might surprise you. Read More
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