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SDN meet sheds little light on Cisco 'Daylight'
Despite the promise of SDNs and the filled sessions at Network World's Open Network Exchange conference this week, lots of questions remain on the technological trend virtually everyone says will redefine networking. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Top Ten Reasons to Use Steelhead Cloud Accelerator
Steelhead Cloud Accelerator is a unique technology integration that can offer performance improvement for SaaS applications consumed by enterprises. It combines the best of WAN optimization with the best of Internet optimization to provide a seamless transition for users between private and public clouds. Learn more. Learn more.

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WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Service-Oriented Performance Management Strategy
This white paper is to help IT organizations adopt a management methodology that enables them to improve the user experience by focusing on service delivery management. Learn More.

5 best business reasons to choose a hosted UC solution
It seems we've been talking about the rise of hosted communications services for years now, but adoption has been rather light. I think one of the main reasons is that the features and functions available from the hosted providers historically weren't even close to what was available from the premise-based vendors. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Egnyte

Comparing Consumer and Enterprise Online File Sharing
Learn the difference between consumer and enterprise file sharing. Understand the risks of rogue online file sharing (Dropbox) and how it impacts business security and regulations. Learn More Now!

Executive Order on Cybersecurity: Will It Spark Further Activity?
As Bruce Springsteen once sang, "you can't start a fire without a spark." With this in mind, President Obama issued an executive order on cybersecurity this week. Will this truly be a spark? To answer that question, it is worthwhile to start by describing what the executive order does. There are really three main points as the order: 1. Directs the Federal government (primarily DHS) to create... Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

Big Data Requires a Remodeling of the Data Warehouse
Take a few moments to learn about a data warehouse appliance that is a massively parallel server optimized to run Microsoft's SQL Server that delivers enterprise scalability, ease of maintenance, and a single version of the truth, all for a low cost. Read Now!

Do you really need the Nexus 7000?
Since Cisco introduced the cutting-edge Nexus 7000 line in 2008, network engineers have constantly debated over the Nexus versus the Catalyst. Those who oversee Catalyst 6500-powered networks are happy with (and accustomed to) the widely used, lower-cost Catalyst switches. Nexus advocates favor the newer line's speed and virtualization capabilities. While each side has good reason to advocate for... Read More

Big Data Security Analytics or Big Data IT Analytics?
According to ESG research, 44% of enterprise organizations believe that their security data collection, processing and analysis qualifies as "big data" today while another 44% believe that their security data collection, processing and analysis will qualify as "big data" within the next two years. Given this requirement and market opportunity, it is not surprise that IBM and RSA announced... Read More

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Here are 12 security products that you can buy for your hybrid cloud whether they run on premise, in the cloud or a little of both.

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