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	10 network virtualization, SDN and data center companies to watch After years of venture capital and start-up focus on consumer-focused tech companies, enterprise networks and the data center are back in vogue. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ixia Anue The Evolving Visibility Challenge Network monitoring has become more complex over the last few years, due in large part to virtualization and convergence. Learn how a state-of-the-art monitoring system that maximizes your existing monitoring tool investment can help you attain greater visibility into your network without adding complexity. Say goodbye to virtual blind spots. Learn More In this Issue Do enterprise security teams want "Big Data Security"? West Virginia auditor blasts Cisco, state for "oversized" router buy Juniper's "device fingerprinting" security technology gets mixed reviews It's an unstructured world and Rackspace wants to play in it Review: Office 365 turns up the heat Cisco, EMC data center coalition feels on solid ground Cloud security forecast: Murky with an 80% chance of finger pointing Juniper Networks tried to sell enterprise assets: report WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option. Read now. Do enterprise security teams want "Big Data Security"? A big theme at the RSA Conference this year is a concept known as Big Data Security -- the idea that massive amounts of data related to both network security and of business context should be stockpiled to be analyzed to pinpoint malware, rogue insiders and stealthy attacks aimed at stealing sensitive data. Read More West Virginia auditor blasts Cisco, state for "oversized" router buy West Virginia wasted millions in federal grant money when it purchased 1,164 Cisco routers for $24 million in 2010, a state audit concluded. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps BYOD Monitoring Strategies solution brief This solution brief highlights how AccelOps' integrated security, performance and availability monitoring software allows you to confidently and securely support mobile device access to sensitive corporate IT resources. Read Now Juniper's "device fingerprinting" security technology gets mixed reviews Detection and blocking of security threats against organizations often is done through IP address-based methods and reputation services, but Juniper this week launched an effort to encourage security managers to abandon IP-based detection in favor of the "device fingerprinting" its security gear now supports to pinpoint devices used in online attacks. The idea is getting mixed reviews so far. Read More It's an unstructured world and Rackspace wants to play in it Databases and the information in them used to be simple, but not any more. Not all data fits into neat spreadsheets and SQL databases. Hence, the rise of NoSQL databases to handle this mass of unstructured data. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. ZLTO Meets 5 Minute RPO with Silver Peak and Dell EqualLogic When faced with their EqualLogic replication not completing due to limited WAN bandwidth and consistently missing their RPO, ZLTO needed a solution. Learn how using Silver Peak's virtual appliances reduced their bandwidth used for replication by 86%. Learn more. Review: Office 365 turns up the heat Latest blend of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync servers in the cloud combines an excellent feature set with easier setup and management Read More Cisco, EMC data center coalition feels on solid ground VCE looking ahead as market leader in converged infrastructure despite competitive strain between founders Read More Cloud security forecast: Murky with an 80% chance of finger pointing Despite the best efforts of cloud service providers and industry groups like the Cloud Security Alliance, cloud security remains a troublesome issue for IT execs. Read More Juniper Networks tried to sell enterprise assets: report Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) reportedly shopped around its enterprise assets to rivals last year but found no takers for properties such as the NetScreen security business it acquired in 2004. Read More
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