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	Arista heading off Cisco/Insieme at 100G SDNs? Arista is raising the ante in high-density programmable core switching and perhaps setting the stage for things to come. Read More WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Essential Reference for Monitoring Your IT Infrastructure How do you choose a network monitoring solution – SNMP monitoring, flow-based monitoring, or packet analysis – that is right for your IT infrastructure? This ebook your crash course in network monitoring for analysis and learn to use multi-segment analysis to diagnose performance problems with distributed application architectures. Download this ebook In this Issue Brocade unleashes a data center barrage MIT entrepreneur automates e-commerce ordering process Half of companies will require BYOD by 2017, Gartner says The 7 elements of a successful security awareness program 8 Tips for Retaining Top IT Talent Centralizing network security in the data center fabric DARPA wants huge Holy Grail of mobile ad hoc networks HP Networking finally rolls out a data center switch IBM premiers world's smallest movie - starring 10,000 atoms How to build a bulletproof cloud backup system without spending a dime 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 Brocade unleashes a data center barrage Brocade this week extended its data center networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical and virtual resources. Read More MIT entrepreneur automates e-commerce ordering process Doug Feigelson is a true entrepreneur, one who has built a successful business out of a custom solution he designed as part of another venture. He says he'd rather "fail completely" than sell his company, and, as a third-year computer science student at MIT, he regularly turns down job offers so he can focus on his startup. Read More Half of companies will require BYOD by 2017, Gartner says About half of the world's companies will enact BYOD (bring your own device) programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts. Read More WEBCAST: Ipswitch, Inc VIDEO: Layer 2 Discovery & Asset Reporting WhatsUp Gold includes Layer 2 discovery as part of the core product bringing you automatically generated Layer 2 topology maps, IT asset reporting, current & historical network documentation, and easy-to-use troubleshooting tools. All of this available within the same interface as all your network management data. View now. The 7 elements of a successful security awareness program A list of action items for CSOs looking to bolster their security awareness programs. Read More 8 Tips for Retaining Top IT Talent How do you retain top IT talent in a competitive market? Is it money? Flexibility? Something else? IT recruiters and executives share their top eight suggestions for how you can keep developers, engineers and IT staff happy. Read More Centralizing network security in the data center fabric Welcome. You have taken the red pill, gone down the rabbit hole, and found my first post on secure data center. Data center security is the topic of choice for many of the conversations I have today with customers, partners, and colleagues. There is growing concern, and for good reason, to protect the crown jewels from today's advanced and growing threats. My goal in authoring this blog is to discuss... Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Five Tips for Outsmarting the Information Age Adversary Today's attackers vigilantly wait for you to slip up before they strike your information systems and compromise your data. Learn five actions you can take to improve your information risk management and security strategy and stay one step ahead of the information age adversary. Read More DARPA wants huge Holy Grail of mobile ad hoc networks Even the often far-reaching researchers at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seems to think this one is a stretch: Develop what's known as mobile ad-hoc wireless technology that lets 1000- 5000 nodes connect simultaneously and securely connect in the field. Read More HP Networking finally rolls out a data center switch The data center is where all the action has been in networking over the past few years. We saw the introduction of the network fabric, the rise of software defined networks (SDN), a number of startups emerge, and we've seen a fair bit of M&A activity as well. Because of the rapid evolution, we've seen almost every major network vendor – Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Extreme, Avaya, Alcatel-Lucent... Read More IBM premiers world's smallest movie - starring 10,000 atoms Not that it's going to give the next Daniel Day Lewis movie a run for Oscar gold, but IBM today said it had created the world's smallest movie made from thousands of precisely placed atoms on nearly 250 frames of stop motion action. Read More How to build a bulletproof cloud backup system without spending a dime There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have lost critical data, and those who will. 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