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	12 terrific new updates in VMware vSphere 5.5 VMware boosts performance, scalability, and usability with enhancements that stretch from the hypervisor to the management stack Read More WEBCAST: SAP Enterprise IT Innovation Forum: 2013 to 2020 Join us for a virtual event featuring noted author Geoffrey Moore and SAP CIO Michael Golz to discuss the number one challenge facing senior business leaders today – how to embrace the emerging "Systems of Engagement." View Now In this Issue Oracle software will run faster with new SPARC M6 chip Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line Outgoing DHS chief Napolitano to successor: "You will need a large bottle of Advil" Killer open source admin tools Cisco in for a virtual fight Will VMware's big gamble on network virtualization pay off? HP, Juniper to help VMware take on networks with NSX WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications SDN: The next wave of networking innovation Brocade and IDG bring you this exclusive eBook exploring the impact of today's IT and Data Center challenges on your network. With a focus on software-defined networks, use this eBook to start your evolution toward a flatter, less complex and more agile network architecture—an architecture ready for the future. View Brocade's eBook on SDN Oracle software will run faster with new SPARC M6 chip Oracle's database and high-performance workloads will run faster with the company's latest SPARC M6 chip, which has been tuned specially for the company's applications. Read More Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line Juniper has killed a high-profile product for the core of mobile operator networks after combining business units to focus on potential growth opportunities. Read More WHITE PAPER: OutSystems Why IT Struggles to Innovate and How You Can Fix It It seems virtually impossible for IT to meet all business demands with current budgets, resources, and approaches. In this eBook we explore the root causes of IT inefficiency and discuss methods companies have used to overcome them, turning their IT departments into innovation superstars. Learn More Outgoing DHS chief Napolitano to successor: "You will need a large bottle of Advil" The outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told a gathering at the at the National Press Club this week that the United States will among other security challenges - "face a major cyber event that will have a serious effect on our lives, our economy, and the everyday functioning of our society." Nice words her potential replacement, who hasn't been named yet, will love to hear no... Read More Killer open source admin tools Sysadmins are a unique breed. Like many of our IT brethren, we must be jacks of all trades. Mail relays, file sharing, websites.... It's a lot to shoulder, but don't fret. Open source is here to help. From systems automation and monitoring, to backups and data center management, open source has the tools to make our jobs easier. Need to make configs simpler so that you can hand off some tasks to a junior admin? Want to automate more of your routine tasks to save more of your time? Maybe you just need a better way to view what's happening on your servers or on the network? Read More WEBCAST: Juniper Networks Converged Access for a More Agile Enterprise A new convergence trend is making its way through the enterprise: converged user access across wired and wireless networks. Driving this trend is the need to accommodate a dizzying array of devices and data, communicating wirelessly from a variety of locations across and outside of the enterprise. View now >> Cisco in for a virtual fight VMware is lining up a Who's Who of networking vendors to take on partner/rival Cisco in network virtualization and SDNs. Read More Will VMware's big gamble on network virtualization pay off? In unveiling its NSX software this week, VMware is looking to convince its huge base of server virtualization customers to trust it with network virtualization, too, even though many of them already look to Cisco for their primary network needs. Read More HP, Juniper to help VMware take on networks with NSX VMware's big splash in software-defined networking with its NSX network hypervisor comes with partnerships already in place to flesh out its virtual networks. Read More
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