Networking World: Being green and the madness of crowds

Cisco, IBM on the defensive with OpenDaylight | It's Risen - My Zombie Android Touchpad is alive!

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Being green and the madness of crowds
Some time ago I had a call with a company that ran data centers they claimed were "green." Their argument for their greenness was they purchased power with green credits, which meant they paid a premium for electricity to fund alternative energy programs. Along with that they had a car park full of solar cells. Read More

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WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems

Winning Strategies for Omnichannel Banking
Research reveals new ways for banks to prosper. Customers are ready for omnichannel experiences. Respond now-learn how to manage the transition to omnichannel banking and reap the rewards of delivering innovative services. Read Now

Cisco, IBM on the defensive with OpenDaylight
You know, the more you consider the strategic importance of the OpenDaylight project to the vendors involved, the more it becomes apparent: Daylight is defensively strategic to those who seek to marginalize the impact of SDNs in general, and of OpenFlow in particular. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Condusiv (Formerly Diskeeper)

Guide to 50% Faster VMs - No Hardware Required
For administrators seeking to increase performance in their virtual environment without investing in more hardware, this white paper outlines how I/O optimization technologies deliver performance at a fraction of the cost of hardware for applications with the heaviest workloads. Read more. Read Now!

It's Risen - My Zombie Android Touchpad is alive!
Sorry, but this is the story that just won't die and neither will my HP Touchpad running Android Jellybean. Every time I think I am done, it pulls me back in. As I wrote about previously my Touchpad has been dead as a door nail for about a week now. No matter what I did or tried it just stayed comatose. But that didn't stop me from trying. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Good APM Practices Get Results
According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More.

OpenDaylight: the next Penguin?
It seems to be passe to be solid these days. The latest example of this is the just-announced OpenDaylight project, in which a bunch of the biggest names in computing and networking have gotten together to push an open source development effort to support software-defined (i.e., virtual) networking under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. Read More

The Cloud saved my Windows 8 disaster
If there is one lesson I have learned in my life, it is that nothing ever goes easy, Murphy's Law. So why I thought that when I installed Ubuntu and messed up my Windows partition it would be an easy fix is beyond me. I guess I will never learn. Thank goodness the cloud saved my bacon. Read More

Why Microsoft won't convert Windows XP holdouts
Microsoft did a pretty good job putting Internet Explorer 6 out to pasture, but it took a whole lot of nudging, cajoling, begging, and, finally, threatening some kneecaps to get people migrating. In the end, it took pushing IE 8 out as part of Patch Tuesday to finally retire the ancient browser. Now it's trying again with Windows XP. One year from now, Microsoft pulls the plug on XP support, and this... Read More

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