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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

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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

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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

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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. In other words, if you use technology long enough and neglect to back up your data, you're guaranteed to have at least one extremely bad day. Whether it's theft, loss, fire, flood, corruption, or some form of malware, a single incident can destroy the lion's share of your family photos, personal documents, address books, years-in-the-making music library, and more. Read More

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