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	VMware expands management of Amazon, Microsoft, OpenStack clouds VMware has rolled out expanded support for non-VMware workloads in its management tools, including the added ability to manage OpenStack clouds, and providing better visibility into Amazon and Microsoft clouds. Read More   In this Issue Is Twitter's top engineer worth $10.3 million? Alcatel-Lucent challenges Cisco, Brocade unified access Insider threats and how they can be mitigated Avaya cozies up to developers Juniper seeks edge router advantage over Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent Apache Software Foundation unveils Hadoop 2, replacing MapReduce with YARN First Look: NetCitadel threat management platform in beta site VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available Windows Phone 'phablet' update opens door to tablets WHITE PAPER: Starview Inc.   Expert Advice: How to Evaluate & Implement SDN Controllers In this exclusive digital report, industry experts catch you up on the status of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement and begin to lay out how you get there from here, examining basic planning, what to look for in an SDN controller, and discussing what the Open Networking Foundation hopes to achieve with its new migration group. View more Is Twitter's top engineer worth $10.3 million? Twitter revealed its biggest earners as it prepares for its IPO. CEO Dick Costolo netted $11.5 million last year, and Christopher Fry, SVP of engineering, raked in $10.3 million. Read More   Alcatel-Lucent challenges Cisco, Brocade unified access Alcatel-Lucent is offering its enterprise switch users a free software upgrade to converge wired Ethernet networks with wireless from Aruba Networks. Read More   Insider threats and how they can be mitigated Any employee with access to sensitive data is a potential threat, whether they know it or not. Even if they don't have malicious intentions, the inherent nature of their privilege is what makes them so dangerous. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology End-to-End Service Management for Unified Communications As part of Riverbed Performance Management solutions, Riverbed OPNET Unified Communications Xpert allows continuous monitoring of voice and video quality so you can catch and fix problems before they become an issue. View More Avaya cozies up to developers Avaya is making it easier to drop its unified communications capabilities into business applications, removing a layer of complexity that may be holding developers back from writing communications-enabled apps for businesses. Read More   Juniper seeks edge router advantage over Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent Juniper Networks this week upgraded its MX service provider edge routers with expanded system capacity to enhance subscriber bandwidth and service performance. Read More   Apache Software Foundation unveils Hadoop 2, replacing MapReduce with YARN The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently leverage data in multiple ways at supercomputing speed, Apache said Wednesday. Read More   WHITE PAPER: SAP Transition to the 3rd Platform for Enterprise Applications The tech industry is in the midst of a major transition brought about by the combination of four forces. Since the lifetime of an application software package in a business is significant, application buyers need to consider support for the 3rd Platform. Learn more First Look: NetCitadel threat management platform in beta site Detecting and stopping stealthy malware designed to steal sensitive information means moving fast. Start-up NetCitadel wants to put its new Threat Management Platform in the middle of the security-response game with many of the other players there now -- sandboxing, firewalling, and other technologies a company may use in order to provide a kind of orchestration and decision-making point. Read More   VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available VMware continues to push its plan to virtualize the whole data center, with the general availability of its network virtualization platform, and desktops too with the acquisition of desktop-as-a service company Desktone. Read More   Windows Phone 'phablet' update opens door to tablets Microsoft's new update for Windows Phone 8 added support for larger phones and higher-resolution screens, a move analysts hoped would soon put the operating system onto small-sized tablets, a market Microsoft and its OEM partners have largely ignored. Read More
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