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Skepticism follows Cisco-IBM led OpenDaylight SDN consortium
If you're skeptical about the intentions of the OpenDaylight SDN consortium, you're not alone. Read More

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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.

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WHITE PAPER: F5

Scale Your DNS Infrastructure to Protect Your Business
DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More.

XP migration easy pickings over, say experts
The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now. Read More

Techiest college commencement speakers of 2013
An Apple co-founder, a powerful tech philanthropist and a gaming visionary among tech business stars delivering commencement addresses this spring. Read More

EFF urges court to protect privacy of text messages
This case represents such an obvious and egregious rights violation by police that I have a hard time granting good faith on the part of the Washington state authorities arguing otherwise. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems

Economic Benefits of Cisco's Cloud Strategy
Private, public, hybrid--Cisco enables a world of many clouds with new levels of agility and security. This report from ACG Research looks how Cisco's cloud strategy improves economics beyond simple data center virtualization. Read Now

Former Apple retail guru Ron Johnson shown the door at JC Penney
Rightfully credited as the driving force behind Apple's now ubiquitous retail stores, Ron Johnson is highly regarded as a retail wiz capable of turning stores into attractive shopping destinations. Read More

More than 6 out of 10 companies approve of personal device use for work
CompTIA's second annual Trends in Mobility study found that 64% of companies allow, or mandate, the use of employee-owned devices, with most stating that improving productivity is the main driver. Read More

With Firefox 22, Mozilla escalates the tracking battle
"Do Not Track" capabilities have been controversial ever since they first appeared in Firefox 4 back in 2011, but earlier this year the battle became even more intense when Mozilla announced that it planned to begin blocking third-party cookies by default. Read More

WEBCAST: Aerohive

The Aerohive Story in 2 Minutes
A quick, two-minute video on what Aerohive solutions can do for your organization. View Now

Old Java can learn new tricks from C, Android
Experts say the language should crib app isolation, locality, and automated parallelism from more modern sources. Read More

IT manager hiring, unemployment rates, rise
There are more IT managers working today than two years ago, but their unemployment rate is rising as well. It's a paradox of government data, but there are theories for the apparent discrepancy. Read More

VMware sells Protect product family to LANDesk
To further its concentration on software-defined data centers, hybrid clouds and end-user computing, VMware has sold the Protect product family to LANDesk. Read More

Brocade brings fabrics to the campus networks
This week, data center specialist Brocade announced its "HyperEdge" architecture for campus networks. The concept of HyperEdge is similar to the value proposition the company put forth with its data center fabric architecture – networking is becoming increasingly complex, so a simpler, flatter network is required to support companies moving forward. Read More

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