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	SDN promises revolutionary benefits, but watch out for the traffic visibility challenge Ever since VMware bought Nicira last July the term software-defined networking (SDN) has taken off, with players like Cisco, Juniper, VMware and even HP and IBM jumping on the bandwagon. 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. In this Issue Make way for faster, smarter, cloud-savvy networks USB 3.0 standard will soon allow up to 10G bps 10 Key Things You Need to Know About SharePoint 2013 Community Sites Netgear A6200: A cost-effective and fast 802.11ac adapter Social BPM Adds Value for Enterprises and Employees 10 hot startups at CES 2013 Extreme Networks cutting 13% of workforce Looking forward to a future Internet WHITE PAPER: Aerohive 2012-2013 WLAN Buyer's Guide Today Wi-Fi tends to be the primary network access method for many. This paper discusses key requirements to consider as you plan for a WLAN purchase. It will highlight top 10 features for a WLAN, help you decide on architectural choices and summarize how to use the RFP process to select a vendor. Read now. Make way for faster, smarter, cloud-savvy networks Network gear may not be the sexiest stuff at the International CES, but it provides the infrastructure for lots of cool gadgets and cloud services on display here. And those products will benefit from the improved networks and network devices that vendors plan to ship this year. Read More USB 3.0 standard will soon allow up to 10G bps An enhanced version of USB 3.0 will deliver up to 10G bps, twice the data speed of current connections. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Managing risk in the modern business world The ways in which technology penetrates corporations today have significantly changed. No longer is the IT department in control; business units are spending more of their own budgets on technology than ever before Read Now 10 Key Things You Need to Know About SharePoint 2013 Community Sites The new Community site template in SharePoint 2013 provides some really cool capabilities to promote and encourage collaboration for organizational communities. I considered two alternate titles for this blog post: "Member, member - who is a Member?" and "Will the real Member please stand up?" The reason is because one of the key nuances for SharePoint 2013 Community sites is that Members in Community... Read More Netgear A6200: A cost-effective and fast 802.11ac adapter If you need to connect several wired clients to your 802.11ac network, you should set up a wireless bridge. If you have just one client--especially a laptop, or maybe a home-theater PC--Netgear offers a better, cheaper alternative: Plug its A6200 USB Wi-Fi adapter into your PC and establish a wireless connection that's fast enough to stream Blu-ray-quality video. Read More WEBCAST: Exinda Expert Insights on Building a User Experience Network Join guest speaker, Forrester Research, Inc. Principal Analyst Andre Kindness and First State Bank IT leader Tristan Smith as they discuss the importance of putting end-users at the forefront of your network design. Learn More. Social BPM Adds Value for Enterprises and Employees The next generation of employees expects your business processes to be collaborative. However, don't adopt business process management for just them, though. Move to BPM for your bottom line. Read More 10 hot startups at CES 2013 Here are 10 startups that turned heads at CES 2013. Read More Extreme Networks cutting 13% of workforce Extreme Networks is laying off 13% of its workforce, or about 90 employees, in an effort to reduce expenses by $7 million per quarter. Read More Looking forward to a future Internet Going into last month the future of the Internet, to borrow a phrase from the great film noir movie "A Touch of Evil," looked like it may have been all used up. The feeling of the traditional telephone folk and controlling governments was that the Internet had done just about enough of this changing the future stuff -- thanks very much -- now it was time for a bit of control. But the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai did not turn out quite the way that those who would control the Internet wanted. Nor, did the WCIT turn out quite the way that those of us who wanted a more hands-off future would have liked. Read More
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