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	Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from VCE Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Luminet Shine a Light on Insider Abuse This solution brief describes the four technical challenges you face and tells you how Luminet can help you overcome them. Learn More! In this Issue FreeNAS: Flexible, fast storage, and the price is right Ex-Cisco engineers tackle Layer 4-7 SDNs Microsoft earnings shed no new light on Windows 8 sales Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises New server can be parachuted into extreme environments INSIDER IT Resume Makeover: Advice for the Tech Pro Who's Done It All DNA may soon be used for storage Cisco to buy SON software vendor Intucell for $475 million Where to turn when VMware stops supporting Lab Manager in May Hitchhiker's Guide to Troubleshooting IPv6 13 markets you might not associate with Cisco Press, bloggers fall for iPhone cup holder 'joke' RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IDG Research New Survey: Purchase Process of Enterprise Technologies Tell us about the buying process for enterprise technologies in Network World's Technology Influence Survey! This survey should take about 10 minutes of your time. To thank you, you will have the opportunity to enter a sweepstakes to win a $250 cash prize*! Please be assured your responses are confidential. To participate, click on the link below. *Due to regulations, prize sweepstakes is only open to legal U.S. and Canadian (except Puerto Rico and Quebec) residents, age 18 or older. FreeNAS: Flexible, fast storage, and the price is right It takes something different to stand out in the crowded network-attached storage market. How does free, as in free beer and free speech, sound? Read More Ex-Cisco engineers tackle Layer 4-7 SDNs Another SDN startup with a Cisco pedigree has emerged. Anuta Networks, a provider of network services virtualization, came out of stealth mode this week and unveiled its plan for delivering "on-demand, anytime, anywhere" network services for cloud. Read More Microsoft earnings shed no new light on Windows 8 sales Revenue at Microsoft's Windows division was up 11% in the fourth quarter of 2012, unexpected results that did little to answer the question on analysts' tongues: How did Windows 8 perform in its first sales test? Read More Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises A bipartisan group of Senators is planning to introduce a bill that not only hikes the H-1B cap, but allows it to rise automatically with demand to a maximum of 300,000 visas annually. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! New server can be parachuted into extreme environments A rugged server from NCS Technologies introduced on Friday can withstand drops, will work in extreme temperatures and can be deployed via parachute into crisis areas or war zones if needed. Read More INSIDER IT Resume Makeover: Advice for the Tech Pro Who's Done It All In CIO.com's latest Resume Makeover, executive career coach Donald Burns works with an IT professional who's won awards, worked for Fortune 500 companies, pharmaceutical businesses and in the government sector. The challenge: His resume was just a running list of the jobs he's held. The goal: make his most impressive skills stand out. Read More DNA may soon be used for storage Researchers at a UK-based bioinformatics school have stored .mp3 and text files in DNA material that they claim can last 10,000 years. Read More Cisco to buy SON software vendor Intucell for $475 million Cisco Systems is planning to acquire Intucell in a bid to make its products more attractive to mobile operators as traffic volume on networks continues to grow. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Easing the Online Overload Many transaction processing systems have reached their capacity limits, so the time is right to consider the potential for running tier 1 mission-critical workloads on opens standards. This white paper highlights the key components of a properly structured and highly optmized SQL Server OLTP reference architecture. Read Now! Where to turn when VMware stops supporting Lab Manager in May The date is coming soon: VMware will stop supporting its Lab Manager product in May, and where VMware is leaving a hole in the market, other vendors are looking to step in. Read More Hitchhiker's Guide to Troubleshooting IPv6 Mark your calendars! February 12th. That is when the CiscoLive Orlando session catalog goes live. And I have to say I'm stoked!! I'm stoked for you, and I'm stoked for me. Read More 13 markets you might not associate with Cisco Cisco's "Internet of Everything" initiative takes it into unchartered territory Read More Press, bloggers fall for iPhone cup holder 'joke' Hate to say I told you so ... No, wait, I'm fine with saying I told you so: That combination cup holder/iPhone case (right) that was mocked here on Friday is indeed a joke, or a publicity stunt if you prefer (and I do), according to the Dutch marketing firm that pitched it to reporters and the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo. Read More
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