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	Cisco teams with VMware, Citrix to counter Amazon's new cloud-based desktop The trio of Cisco, VMware and Citrix are teaming up to provide a new cloud-based desktop as a service (DaaS) offering aimed mostly at service providers. The move comes just weeks after Amazon Web Services announced its foray into the DaaS market, and could signal a wave of new DaaS offerings in the market early next year. Read More WEBCAST: Novell Putting Mobile Employees to Work Mobile Employees in the workplace. Watch this webcast. Click Here>> Learn More>> In this Issue What Microsoft did right and wrong in 2013 The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2013 Why Gigamon's network big data play is important How LiveAction 3.1 approaches network downtime NASA's greatest challenges in 2014 Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness If Cisco were Star Trek... To AC or not to AC, that is the Wi-Fi question 2013 Year End: Tech News Review University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps WHITE PAPER: AT&T Four Keys to Choosing a Holistic Mobile Management Solution Getting peak value from mobile technologies takes a wide range of applications and services. Here are four capabilities every end-to-end mobile management solution must include. Learn More What Microsoft did right and wrong in 2013 Nobody bats a thousand, and Microsoft is no different. Here's a quick look at five things Microsoft did right in 2013 and five it did wrong. Read More The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2013 It's always a tall order to decide which high-tech stories are the wackiest or coolest of the year but we aren't shy about trying. This year we find all manner of interesting items from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft leaving our solar system and Microsoft developing sensory bra technology to a Verizon employee being locked underground and a man being arrested for stealing 5 cents worth of electricity. Read More Why Gigamon's network big data play is important Some are speculating that the move toward software will chip away at Gigamon's technical lead. Unified Visibility Fabric may change their minds. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Unleash Your Data With SDS And IBM Storwize V5000 In this webcast IBM examines software defined storage and how IBM Storwize V5000, the newest member of the IBM Storwize family, delivers virtualized, flexible, easy-to-use storage that enables midsized organizations to gain business advantage from the flood of new data while staying within their budgets. View Now How LiveAction 3.1 approaches network downtime ActionPacked Networks brings visibility and accountability to Cisco environments. Read More NASA's greatest challenges in 2014 In its annual look at what challenges NASA faces in the coming year, the agency's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) this year outlined nine key areas it says will cause the most angina. Leading the way in pain is money. NASA's current money story starts off bad and just gets worse. Read More Cisco counting on Glue for stickiness Glue Networks, a developer of software-defined wide area networking products, has landed $12.4 million in new funding from unidentified private investors. The company also got a big sales boost from Cisco, which now includes Glue products on its price list and will compensate 14,000 sales people for selling them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco and Netapp Total Economic Impact Of FlexPod Data Center Platform FlexPod is a data center platform jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco that delivers networking, computing and storage. This Forrester report offers key findings from Forrester's interviews with FlexPod customers. View Now If Cisco were Star Trek... Re-casting Star Trek with the high-profile figures from Cisco and the networking industry. Read More To AC or not to AC, that is the Wi-Fi question On the eve of the IEEE's ratification of the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, network managers need to consider whether they should upgrade or not. Read More 2013 Year End: Tech News Review Politics and technology collided this year, while the post PC era had some new entrants. We'll take a look at it all in our 2013 Tech News Review. Read More University of Florida gets 100Gbps link to Internet2, upgrades campus research net to 200Gbps The University of Florida is just putting the wraps on a remarkable year of IT upgrades. The school, which has a 2,000-acre campus and more than 900 buildings, installed a new supercomputer in a new data center, installed a 100Gbps link to Inernet2, and upgraded its Campus Research Network from 20G to 200Gbps while adding support for Software Defined Networking (SDN). Network World Editor in Chief John Dix got the lowdown on all of the developments from Erik Deumens, director of research computing. Read More
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