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	Why Oracle is absolutely right about Oracle wanting more money Oracle has released a PDF document titled "The Department of Defense (DoD) and Open Source Software." And - surprise, surprise - it makes the case that the U.S. government should be using less open source software and more proprietary software... specifically software built by Oracle. Read More 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 In this Issue The Key to Big Data Security Analytics Solutions: Algorithms, Visualization, Context, and Automation (AVCA) 10 great videos from DEMO Fall 2013 Phablets are the phuture, no phoolin' Apple may release more budget friendly iMac in 2014 ONF looking northbound Mobile Unified Communications – Part 5: Conclusions The Internet is moving away from the US Why Lenovo should, and may, buy HTC How Avaya's Aura CE is impacting the communications-enabled app market Red Hat & HP lead contributions to OpenStack's Havana release Why the lines between console and free-to-play games will dissolve WHITE PAPER: Spirent Communications Challenges for Modern Networks Built Using SDN and OpenFlow The Testing Challenges of SDN and OpenFlow white paper Covers Emerging network deployment scenarios, Current shifts in traffic type crossing networks and Challenges with Cost, Agility and Design. Read Now The Key to Big Data Security Analytics Solutions: Algorithms, Visualization, Context, and Automation (AVCA) ESG research indicates that 44% of organizations believe that their current level of security data collection and analysis could be classified as "big data," while another 44% believe that their security data collection and analysis will be classified as "big data" within the next two years (note: In this case, big data security analytics is defined as, "security data sets that grow so large... Read More 10 great videos from DEMO Fall 2013 Greetings from Santa Clara, Calif., where the annual DEMO startup show is winding down. For the past two days, we've heard from 41 startups launching new products upon the world. Will one of these be the next big thing? Perhaps. While launching a product at a show like DEMO seems like a hard prospect, the hard work continues for these startups as they grow their business. Read More Phablets are the phuture, no phoolin' Yesterday's announcement of the HTC One Max, yet another giant-screen smartphone, confirms a growing trend -- devices that straddle the line between phones and tablets -- phablets -- are here to stay. And I, for one, am happy to welcome our new oversize overlords. Stop making phun of phablets Read More WHITE PAPER: ForeScout Technologies Continuous Compliance & Next Generation NAC Find out how companies with thousands to hundreds of thousands of devices and distributed networks are more effectively managing security risks, enabling BYOD adoption, and supporting IT-GRC framework specifications. Read this new white paper from Frost & Sullivan and provide continuous compliance for your company with next generation NAC. Learn more >> Apple may release more budget friendly iMac in 2014 Though Apple derives the bulk of its revenue from the iPhone, and more broadly speaking, from iOS, the company still hasn't forgotten about the Mac. Last week, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities put out a research note claiming that Apple next year will release a more economical model of the iMac. As it stands now, the base model iMac starts at $1299, putting it out of the price range of many... Read More ONF looking northbound The Open Networking Foundation, a user-driven organization defining and promoting OpenFlow-based software-defined networks, has established a working group to define a "northbound" API between SDN controllers and applications. Read More Mobile Unified Communications – Part 5: Conclusions So, needless to say, despite the death-march exhaustion inherent in such an aggressive agenda, I had a great time exploring mobile unified communications (start with Part 1, here) in the Baltic region. Talking on the phone with exceptional quality at about US$.06 an hour made me the envy of more than few who asked what I was doing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications View the new eBook: Evolution of the Ethernet 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 Ethernet Fabric, use this eBook to start your evolution toward a flatter, less complex and more agile network architecture—an architecture ready for the future. View Now The Internet is moving away from the US A recent article in the Wired UK edition reported that most of the Internet infrastructure management organizations are seeking to break free of any U.S. Read More Why Lenovo should, and may, buy HTC Much of the recent chatter on the blogs and Asian news sites suggests that China's Lenovo, the only PC vendor left that can sell PCs, is looking to either partner with or outright purchase struggling Taiwanese smartphone vendor HTC. Some reports from Asia say the two have been in talks in some form or another since August. Lenovo has kept mum, while HTC has publicly said it is not interested in selling.... Read More How Avaya's Aura CE is impacting the communications-enabled app market Doesn't it seem like the UC industry has been talking about a world of communications-enabled applications for over a decade now? This is where in-house developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) will drop UC features into business applications to create new business processes and the companies that build them get a significant jump on the competition. Almost everyone I talk to agrees this... Read More Red Hat & HP lead contributions to OpenStack's Havana release OpenStack's latest code has been released, which means one company gets the coveted title of being the top code contributor to the project. That goes, once again, to Red Hat. [MORE OPENSTACK: Latest release of OpenStack packed with enterprise features ] Read More Why the lines between console and free-to-play games will dissolve Just ahead of the release of Microsoft's new XBOX One and Sony's new PlayStation 4 game consoles next month, the Wall Street Journal reported a Truce in the Videogame Wars between console game companies and free-to-play (f2p) game companies. It's not so much a truce as console game manufacturers and free-to-play game developers seeing greener grass on the other side of the fence, leading them... Read More
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