Cisco, Juniper, Arista: The data center networking stories just keep coming

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	Cisco, Juniper, Arista: The data center networking stories just keep coming Meet Daye DeCentah, IT executive. Let's call her "DC" for short. DC faces a lot of challenges at work. Most all of these problems revolve around her having to deliver more, while using less - less staff, less systems, less power, less space, and, ultimately, less money. DC is bombarded with possible solutions to her wealth of problems. All have their advantages. All present both savings and improvements.... Read More WHITE PAPER: CDNetworks Web Business and the Right Solution This white paper describes the challenges that Fortune 2000 companies face when delivering content into China via the Internet, the ways in which Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) can ease market entry into China, and what to look for in a CDN provider to optimize content delivery, both in China and globally. Learn more. In this Issue Lonely week for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 What Google killing IE9 support means for software development 802.11ad: Progress at Last 5 Disturbing BYOD lessons from the FAA's in-flight electronics announcement Microsoft to can Skype API, third party products will not work What is Pivotal? EMC and VMware want it to be your platform for building big data apps Who supports Cisco's ACI, and why? Investors want Microsoft to dump Xbox and Bing, and they have a point F5 Networks answers a complex SDN question Who's using OpenStack? Networking and the World Series: 10 lessons baseball teaches us about networking 10 companies making the Internet of Things a reality WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks A New Model for Application Services - F5 Synthesis F5 Software Defined Application Services (SDAS) is the next-generation model for delivering application services. SDAS is the first fabric-based application delivery and control system. It enables service injection, consumption, automation, and orchestration across a unified operating framework of pooled resources. Learn more >> Lonely week for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Perhaps overlooked in all of the Insieme/Arista news this week are references to Cisco's venerable Catalyst 6500 switch. Read More What Google killing IE9 support means for software development Let's start with this: I am completely OK with this. Sure, it may be a bit of a drag for people running Windows Vista (as newer versions of Internet Explorer – 10 and 11 – require Windows 7 or 8) but, let's be honest - nobody expects any company to spend the money and man-hours supporting every web browser for all eternity. And Vista users still have the option of installing another web browser,... Read More 802.11ad: Progress at Last Almost two years ago, I wrote in these pages of my fondness for 60-GHz. radio, and my belief that .11ad would eventually play a major role in wireless LANs and not just outdoor point-to-point links, HDMI cable replacement, and short-range docking solutions. Read More 5 Disturbing BYOD lessons from the FAA's in-flight electronics announcement Last week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) moved to let fliers use their smartphones and tablets during airline take-offs and landings. At first glance, this seems like a victory for reasonableness, productivity, and looking out for the rights of technology end users. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Collaborative Business Networks Through SaaS This webinar will feature thought leaders from IBM client Apex Supply Chain Technologies and IBM who will discuss how the modern enterprise is collaborating internally and externally leveraging SaaS solutions. Learn More. Microsoft to can Skype API, third party products will not work Read More What is Pivotal? EMC and VMware want it to be your platform for building big data apps Pivotal is a company to watch. The spin-out being led by former VMware chief Paul Maritz has assembled technology from EMC and VMware as well as a variety of open source platforms. Pivotal wants to be the place where enterprises build big data analytics apps for cloud-like infrastructures. To do that, Pivotal offers a variety of application development tools, data management products, and analytics... Read More Who supports Cisco's ACI, and why? For decades now, Cisco has been the single biggest factor in driving network change. Over the years, the company has been aggressive with VoIP, PoE, MPLS, wireless LAN and most recently converged infrastructure, and has gained a significant early-move advantage. However, when it comes to software-defined networks, I think it's fair to say that Cisco has lagged in both technology and vision, and has... Read More Investors want Microsoft to dump Xbox and Bing, and they have a point Two of the top three shareholders at Microsoft are Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and the two have a lot of sway. But there's a third, co-founder Paul Allen, and he has his own gravitational pull. Right now, he's pulling for some badly needed focus. Read More WHITE PAPER: Internap Performance Analysis: Benchmarks of Clouds Cloud Spectator recently released the report, Performance Analysis: Benchmarks of Bare-Metal & Virtual Clouds, which compared Internap's bare-metal cloud with Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Rackspace OpenCloud. Download this comprehensive report to see the full results. Learn more F5 Networks answers a complex SDN question One of the primary value propositions of Software Defined Networks (SDNs) is that it optimizes the performance of the applications that run on networks today. However, almost all of the SDN-related products that have been released to date operate at layer 2/3 which, of course, have no direct relevance to applications. I agree that if there's congestion or something else impacting performance at those... Read More Who's using OpenStack? We don't typically track user surveys, but the annual state of the OpenStack questionnaire provides some interesting insights into this still emerging open source cloud computing platform. Here are some key takeaways: -Really small and really big companies are most likely to be using OpenStack Read More Networking and the World Series: 10 lessons baseball teaches us about networking As a baseball fan based in Boston, I spent a lot of time watching baseball the last few weeks as the playoffs and, ultimately, the World Series progressed. (And yes, as a life-long Red Sox fan, I was very happy with the final outcome last week!) I've always enjoyed the thinking aspect of baseball. The up-front analysis, the in-game adjustments, the on-the-fly reactions, even the post-game second guessing... Read More 10 companies making the Internet of Things a reality The first ever Internet of Things World Forum was held in Barcelona over the last week of October. If there was any doubt, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a very real trend and it's just a matter of time before IoT has a significant impact on the way we live our lives. These were the top 10 companies on display at the World Forum, many of which are helping IoT move from vision to reality. Read More
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