Riverbed wins 7-vendor WAN optimization test

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	Riverbed wins 7-vendor WAN optimization test As applications move to the cloud, network managers are seeing increasing requirements to optimize and manage WAN connections. Most enterprises have migrated to web-based applications and make heavy use of Internet services for day-to-day business. All of this makes network performance a key factor for productivity and end-user satisfaction. Read More WHITE PAPER: Starview Inc. Editorial Report: Where Does the SDN movement stand today? 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 F5, VMware & Cisco: One happy family? What's Hindering Healthcare IT Innovation (And How That Can Change) Georgia Tech warns of emerging threats in cloud, mobile 12 Recent Tech Trends That Have Yet to Live Up to Their Hype 18 must-have Android productivity apps Top tools for WAN optimization F5 execs: We're blasting virtualization beyond Layer 3 10 amazing facts about the world's largest radio telescope Cisco Live Classes for FREE! WEBCAST: Internap Big Data and Bare-Metal Cloud The Big Data hype meter is at an all-time high. But getting caught up in the hype can be a bit dangerous for your big data applications if you don't consider how to get the highest disk I/O. Hear why you may be disappointed in your application performance without the right infrastructure in place. View Now F5, VMware & Cisco: One happy family? At first blush, F5 Networks' new Synthesis Architecture for Software-Defined Application Services might appear to compete with new offerings from Cisco and VMware. But no, F5 CEO John McAdam and executive vice president of Strategic Solutions Manuel Rivelo tell IDG Communications Chief Content Officer John Gallant that F5 is very much in sync with these two data center giants (we did not, however, press them on the relationship between Cisco and VMware). Read More What's Hindering Healthcare IT Innovation (And How That Can Change) No one disputes the healthcare industry's need to apply technology to the patient care process -- or difficulty of doing it. In that vein, the recent Center for Connected Health Symposium examined innovations that could change care delivery as well as the drivers that will help the industry get there. Read More Georgia Tech warns of emerging threats in cloud, mobile Companies will face next year emerging threats in cloud data storage that will demand security measures that go far beyond what is offered by service providers, a university report says. Read More WHITE PAPER: Infoblox Compliance Management's Seven Steps to Success Failure to meet compliance can result in fines, dangerous network exposure and damage to a company's reputation. Traditional techniques leave many organizations at risk. Read this white paper to learn 7 critical steps to achieve network compliance. Learn more >> 12 Recent Tech Trends That Have Yet to Live Up to Their Hype How many times has 'the next big thing' in technology turned out to be the next big fail, either because tech companies couldn't explain the product or service or the marketing was premature? Here's a look at today's most overhyped technologies? Read More 18 must-have Android productivity apps From basic business tasks to advanced automation, these 18 apps will make your Android device more useful than ever Read More Top tools for WAN optimization Upstarts Exinda, Ipanema challenge network optimization kingpin Riverbed Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM 5 Steps to Simplify APM for Business-Wide Results Application downtime is just one of many costs associated with a fragmented application performance management (APM) strategy. Managing today's more complex and interdependent mission-critical applications is a growing challenge with even larger business implications. View Now F5 execs: We're blasting virtualization beyond Layer 3 Cisco wasn't the only networking company making big virtualization news last week with the debut of its Insieme product line and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) strategy aimed at virtualizing the data center. F5 Networks, in addition to announcing that it will work hand-in-hand with Cisco on ACI integration, launched its own Synthesis Architecture for Software-Defined Application Services, which aims to virtualize networking functions above Layers 2/3. Read More 10 amazing facts about the world's largest radio telescope The massive effort that will ultimately bring together the world largest radio telescope got a little more focused this week. The organization running the venture picked some three hundred and fifty scientists and engineers, representing 18 nations and drawn from nearly one hundred institutions, universities and industry to complete the design phase of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Project. Read... Read More Cisco Live Classes for FREE! Studying for a certification and trying to find something of quality online that will help you? Or maybe you are like me and you are just trying to keep up in this fast paced and rapidly changing world of today's IT? 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