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	BREAKING: Microsoft buying Nokia's mobile phone business Microsoft is to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business, which includes the smartphone and mobile phones businesses, and license the Finnish company's patents for a total of $7.2 billion in cash, the companies said Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Webroot Software Managing Web Security in a Challenging Threat Landscape This whitepaper deals with the rise of mobility, BYOD and social networking, and how these trends have led cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities in browsers and mobile apps. From drive-by downloads to spearfishing to XML injection, web-borne threats represent a significant new risk for businesses. Learn More In this Issue Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on acquisition of Nokia Verizon to buy out Vodafone's stake in mobile unit for $130B Report: Application delivery controller sales up, but WAN optimization slipping Will software-defined networking kill network engineers' beloved CLI? The IPv6 wave is moving … just not as expected HP, Juniper to help VMware take on networks with NSX Packet loss problem in Amazon's cloud wobbles Airbnb, Vine Products of the week 9.02.13 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 >> Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on acquisition of Nokia Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on acquisition of Nokia Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a news conference in Espoo, Finland on September 3, 2013, on his company's plans to acquire Nokia's smartphone business. From: networkworld Views: 15 3 ratings Time: 03:04 More in Science & Technology Read More Verizon to buy out Vodafone's stake in mobile unit for $130B Verizon Communications has reached an agreement to buy Vodafone Group's 45 percent stake in its Verizon Wireless subsidiary for US$130 billion. Read More WHITE PAPER: SolarWinds Rightsizing Your Network Performance Management Solution The phrase "doing more with less" is something most IT organizations have heard before. This white paper from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) profiles four organizations who decided to prioritize total cost of ownership and made the switch to SolarWinds. Click here to read the report. Learn More Report: Application delivery controller sales up, but WAN optimization slipping A report on data center networking equipment says that sales of WAN optimization gear fell in the second quarter, but application delivery controllers were on the rise. Read More Will software-defined networking kill network engineers' beloved CLI? SDN (software-defined networking) promises some real benefits for people who use networks, but to the engineers who manage them, it may represent the end of an era. Read More WHITE PAPER: SolarWinds Case study: Get More Coverage at Half the Price of CA Over a six year period Grand Canyon University's network grew from 40-50 devices and 3 racks of servers to approximately 300 network devices, 1200 servers, large virtualization farms, and 2 data centers. Read this case study to learn how SolarWinds gave Grand Canyon University more coverage at less than half the price of a CA maintenance renewal. Learn More The IPv6 wave is moving … just not as expected I loved my v6 wave diagram. It made perfect analytic sense to me; anyone could see this is how the market would adopt IPv6. The crest of the wave starts over the Investigation phase of IPv6 and then over time flows over Research, Trial and then Deployment - the sequential stages of IPv6 adoption. I held tightly to this diagram for as long as I could but Serge hated it. As we were walking out of our third pitch meeting of the day on Sand Hill Road he turned toward me and ordered that I remove it from the deck. "Too complicated for VCs to understand," he said. 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 Packet loss problem in Amazon's cloud wobbles Airbnb, Vine Amazon Web Services resolved service problems on Sunday that caused issues for several websites, including Airbnb's booking site and Twitter's Vine video application, which rely on its computing platform. Read More Products of the week 9.02.13 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Dell and CheckPoint Read More
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