First Look: Dell’s zippy new campus network gear

Cisco wraps Insieme, works on UCS 2.0 How (and Why) to Get Started With SDNs Network World Daily News AM December 11, 2013 Share this email First Look: Dell's zippy new campus network gear Dell has rolled out new switches and wireless LAN gear for the enterprise campus READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Cisco wraps Insieme, works on UCS 2.0 2. How (and Why) to Get Started With SDNs 3. 25 (mostly) tech company logos with hidden meanings 4. Identity-theft vulnerability fixed in Microsoft Office 365, says security firm 5. BMC launches service to host private-label enterprise app stores 6. Stats don't lie: Windows 8 has failed 7. One in four cloud providers will be gone by 2015 8. Symantec walks away from managed firewall and endpoint services 9. Oracle becomes sponsor of OpenStack Foundation 10. Start-up Humavox unveils wireless charging via radio frequency 11. PC World's 50 best tech products of 2013 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Juniper Networks Who will win the Data Center Rap Battle? It may seem like the calm, cool center of the business, but there's a battle raging in the data center between the guardians of physical infrastructure and the innovators of virtualization. There's only one way forward. See how Juniper Networks and our corporate rap coach resolve the epic struggle in a way that makes everyone a winner. Watch the forces of physical and the virtues of virtual battle it out. Cisco wraps Insieme, works on UCS 2.0 Cisco this week completed its acquisition of spin-in Insieme Networks, the developer of Cisco's Nexus 9000 data center switching line and Application Centric Infrastructure fabric. Cisco said it could pay up to $863 million for Insieme, which launched its products Nov. 6, based on revenue achieved from the sale of Insieme products. READ MORE How (and Why) to Get Started With SDNs The rise of software-defined networks (SDNs) is one of the big tech stories of 2013. For many IT organizations looking at deploying the technology, it's no longer a question of 'if,' but 'when,' according to Gartner's Joe Skorupa, research vice president for Data Center Convergence and Andrew Lerner, research director for Networking, at Gartner. READ MORE 25 (mostly) tech company logos with hidden meanings Some logos are much more than meets the eye. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Web Site Performance for the Speed of Business IT organizations must look beyond raw network speed to increase website performance and deliver the superior online user experiences that drive business. Web performance is a multi-layered problem, encompassing reliability, scalability and mobile reach as well as speed. Learn More Identity-theft vulnerability fixed in Microsoft Office 365, says security firm Microsoft has plugged a vulnerability in Microsoft Office 365 that would have let attackers grab user identities and steal email and documents, according to Adallom, the security vendor that says it discovered the problem. READ MORE BMC launches service to host private-label enterprise app stores BMC Software has set up a private-label marketplace service that will allow independent software vendors (ISVs) and other organizations to run their own online app stores. READ MORE Stats don't lie: Windows 8 has failed A year's worth of stats don't lie: Windows 8 isn't going anywhere. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: AT&T Transforming Your Organization with Mobility This whitepaper intends to help organizations understand the critical elements of a mobilization solution, the value and inter-dependencies, and important enablement assessment questions. Learn More One in four cloud providers will be gone by 2015 Cloud adopters face serious risk in the next two years because of the strong possibility that their provider will be acquired or forced out of business, according to Gartner. READ MORE Symantec walks away from managed firewall and endpoint services Symantec has downsized their Managed Security Services portfolio, ending support for the managed firewall and managed endpoint offerings. Symantec says the change is part of an effort to streamline things within the company's Information Security portfolio, but what does that mean for existing managed security customers? READ MORE Oracle becomes sponsor of OpenStack Foundation Oracle is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation and plans to weave parts of the open-source infrastructure platform into its own products, saying it will give customers more flexibility and options for managing clouds. READ MORE Start-up Humavox unveils wireless charging via radio frequency Humavox this week unveiled Eterna, a new platform that uses RF signals to wirelessly power the Internet of Things, especially medical and wearable devices such as hearing aids, smart watches and augmented-reality glasses. READ MORE PC World's 50 best tech products of 2013 READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Business Value of Blade Infrastructures Download this white paper to discover how migrating to a blade platform helped eight companies in the education, healthcare, media, retail and telecommunications industries reduce annual IT infrastructure cost per user by almost 25%. Learn More SLIDESHOWS 8 tricks to optimize Windows 8.1 Here are eight things we recommend doing to make Windows 8.1 more efficient. 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