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	Network World's 15 Hottest Tech Arguments Here's our take on the nastiest, most colorful and in some cases, still unresolved network industry arguments. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial In this Issue Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 Epic Interconnect Clash! InfiniBand vs. Gigabit Ethernet Cisco, VMware and OpenFlow fragment SDNs Addressing WAN packet loss, Part 2 The season for quantifying enterprise happiness 10 cloud predictions for 2013 Six free/open source databases with commercial-quality features Google's software-defined/OpenFlow backbone drives WAN links to 100% utilization 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! Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 These days, Cisco network administrators are a nation divided. Read More Epic Interconnect Clash! InfiniBand vs. Gigabit Ethernet A few years back, picking the protocol to link your computers together into a network was a no-brainer. The servers in a mid-sized data center were wired together using Ethernet. And if you wanted to connect many nodes into a single high performance computer (HPC), you went with InfiniBand. 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 Cisco, VMware and OpenFlow fragment SDNs Juniper Networks Executive Vice President Bob Muglia spelled it out succinctly: the nascent software-defined networking market is morphing into three camps - OpenFlow/open source, Cisco and VMware. Read More Addressing WAN packet loss, Part 2 Last time, we began our discussion of what can be done to address the impact of packet loss on application performance over the WAN. We listed six different possibilities, and went through how one of them can significantly improve application performance in the face of packet loss. 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 The season for quantifying enterprise happiness Hitachi has a system that can analyze how happy your organization is and maybe even re-engineer it to make it happier! Read More 10 cloud predictions for 2013 Read More Six free/open source databases with commercial-quality features Microsoft, Oracle offer impressive free versions of their commercial offerings, but MariaDB wins our test Read More Google's software-defined/OpenFlow backbone drives WAN links to 100% utilization Google, an early backer of software-defined networking and OpenFlow, shared some details at the recent Open Networking Summit about how the company is using the technology to link 12 worldwide data centers over 10G links. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Google Principal Engineer Amin Vahdat to learn more. Read More
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