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	Top 10 cloud tools Cloud vendors are delivering boatloads of new tools to help enterprise IT build, buy, manage, monitor, tweak and track cloud services. These tools are designed to help IT execs free up their budgets and their staff so both can be used towards more strategic, line of business projects. Read More WEBCAST: Sprint The Network Foundation of an IT-to-ET Transformation Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT There's an evolutionary process at work that will eventually affect every enterprise IT department. Nemertes Research describes it as a transformation from IT to ET – Enterprise Technology. Learn More In this Issue Knocking down the myths of why enterprises need MPLS Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project Move over SDN; startup looking to go where only Cisco, VMware tread Cloud tools abound. Is enterprise IT ready? Software engineers spend lots of time not building software INSIDER So you want to be a data scientist? 3D printers: Not for the average consumer Products of the week 4.8.13 HP's first Moonshot server with Atom processors priced at $61,875 The SDN incubator 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 Knocking down the myths of why enterprises need MPLS If you're responsible for a serious enterprise WAN, do you need MPLS? Until recently, the answer to this question for almost all larger enterprises, many mid-sized and some smaller ones as well, was a resounding yes. Thanks to the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture, the answer going forward is: probably not. Read More Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project Software-defined networking, a set of technologies to help networks better adapt to user needs with less manual effort, may at last be getting the common foundation it has needed for interoperability and efficient development. Read More Move over SDN; startup looking to go where only Cisco, VMware tread Software-defined network, software-defined data center ... and now software-defined fabric. Read More WEBCAST: VMware, Cisco and NetApp Consider a Better Way to Virtualize Oracle Databases This video highlights how three industry leaders - VMware, Cisco and NetApp have teamed to provide a solution that can help you lower your Oracle database license and maintenance costs. View Now! Cloud tools abound. Is enterprise IT ready? The sky is the limit for both the number and the types of tools that will eventually help enterprise IT fully embrace the cloud, say industry analysts and cloud integration experts. Read More Software engineers spend lots of time not building software Administrative tasks, brainstorming, and waiting for tests combine to overtake the hours spent designing and coding Read More INSIDER So you want to be a data scientist? After months of high unemployment and a still-wobbly economy, any good news from the jobs market is going to get some traction. But even that doesn't seem to fully explain the attention surrounding a suddenly very "in" job title: data scientist. Read More 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. 3D printers: Not for the average consumer Consumers getting excited about the idea of at-home 3D printers may not want to get their hopes up anytime soon, Gartner research director Pete Basiliere says. Read More Products of the week 4.8.13 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Citrix Read More HP's first Moonshot server with Atom processors priced at $61,875 Hewlett-Packard's new densely packed low-power Moonshot server has finally come out of the company's labs and is available to customers in the U.S. and Canada starting at $61,875. Read More The SDN incubator A speaker at a recent Network World event asked the crowd of 450 IT practitioners if they were familiar with software-defined networking (SDN) and only about 10% raised their hands. Read More
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