Cisco extends Microsoft support in data center portfolio

	Dell dives deeper into SDN with new hardware and software | Alcatel-Lucent focuses on practical SDN
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	Cisco extends Microsoft support in data center portfolio Cisco has extended its data center product line to support Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align their respective data center and cloud architectures for joint customers. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver Focuses on Five Pillars of Technology The content-rich agenda has been redesigned and reenergized to include increased IDG content from editors you know and trust on topics such as: Security & Management, Network - From the Edge to the Core of the New Data Center, Analytics & Data Management, Cloud & Next Generation Apps, The Mobile/BYOD Enterprise, and more! In this Issue Dell dives deeper into SDN with new hardware and software Alcatel-Lucent focuses on practical SDN Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers What's next for Virtual Instruments Virtual Instruments: Avoiding "The Abyss", trouncing Brocade and not hiding behind SDN Knocking down MPLS myths WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More Dell dives deeper into SDN with new hardware and software Dell says it's hoping to move closer to the forefront of data center technology with the release of a suite of new products designed for software-defined networking. Read More Alcatel-Lucent focuses on practical SDN While much of the network industry is mired in trying to use SDNs to create new business models and redefine the entire networking industry, ALU is searching for small, practical use cases to show the value. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies. Read More What's next for Virtual Instruments Virtual Instruments, whose software and hardware is used to manage data center performance, plans to release the next edition of its VirtualWisdom software in the fourth quarter. Read More WHITE PAPER: PhoneFactor Malware Threats Force Authentication to 'Step Out' Of Band Malware, like ZeuS and other real-time attacks, has rapidly outpaced all other banking security threats to defeat most security measures in place today. This whitepaper examines these current malware threats and today's best practices for mitigating them, such as out-of-band authentication and transaction-level verification. Learn More Virtual Instruments: Avoiding "The Abyss", trouncing Brocade and not hiding behind SDN Virtual Instruments, the nearly 5-year-old infrastructure performance management software and hardware maker, is one of those companies that might never become a household name no matter how successful it becomes. In fact, many at first mistake the company for being in the music business. Read More Knocking down MPLS myths There may be benefits to MPLS, and while some WAN managers will be more comfortable with it than alternatives for some time to come, the "need" for a full mesh is definitely not a legitimate justification for deploying MPLS. Read More
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