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	VMware vSphere 5.5 bulks up with more muscle, high-availability VMware's latest salvo in its virtualization war with Microsoft is vSphere 5.5, which features a host of improvements, the most interesting being high availability, support for Big Data/Hadoop and improved storage and backup. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Avnet Introducing Adaptec Host Bus Adapters From the industry leading performance of the 7H, the security of the 7He, and the value of the 6H, Adaptec by PMC offers HBAs that can satisfy the storage needs of any customer. Adaptec's SAS/SATA HBA's feature: Up to 800,000 IOPS; 16 Native SAS/SATA; Low-Profile MD2 Form Factor. Watch Video In this Issue Where we stand with SDN What to look for in an SDN controller A Q&A with the Chair of the Open Networking Foundation's Migration Group Cisco has this SDN thing covered Windows 8 uptake needle sticks as growth stalls Geek-themed Meme of the Week: iPhone Fingerprint Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Fortinet Do you need to replace your Data Center Firewall? With Data Centers consolidating and virtualizing, the core infrastructure is upgrading to 10G, 40G and even 100G. The Firewall must keep pace with these changes otherwise it becomes a bottleneck. Does your Firewall have the horsepower to keep up? Find out if your colleagues are thinking the same. Read the analyst survey report Where we stand with SDN One gauge of industry progress on the software-defined networking front is the momentum of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), the user-lead group that is spelling out the core SDN standards and championing the cause. Read More What to look for in an SDN controller One of the key challenges confronting potential users of software-defined networking is discerning the specific value of particular SDN controllers. Controllers, after all, play critical role as the key arbiter between network applications and network infrastructure. Read More WHITE PAPER: Exablox Data Storage: An Interactive eGuide In this eGuide, InfoWorld and sister publication Computerworld examine some of the newer storage approaches that enterprises are taking. Read on to learn about new storage technologies that can help you get a handle on your data. Read now! A Q&A with the Chair of the Open Networking Foundation's Migration Group For an inside look at the goals, expectations and plans of the ONF's recently created Migration Group and how it hopes to help companies make the transition to SDN, Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up via e-mail with the chair of the group, Justin Joubine Dustzadeh, CTO & VP of Technology Strategy, Networks, Huawei. Read More Cisco has this SDN thing covered Who says SDNs threaten Cisco? It may be another market transition that Cisco embraces as an opportunity and growth engine. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fortinet High Performance Data Center Firewall Survey With Data Centers consolidating and virtualizing, the core infrastructure is upgrading to 10G, 40G and even 100G. The Firewall must keep pace with these changes otherwise it becomes a bottleneck. Does your Firewall have the horsepower to keep up? View now >> Windows 8 uptake needle sticks as growth stalls Windows 8's uptake stalled in November, while the now-aging Windows 7 continued to gain ground, a Web metrics company said Sunday. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: iPhone Fingerprint Edition No. 24 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series features Overly Attached Girlfriend openly acknowledging her intention to circumvent the fingerprint scanner on her boyfriend's new iPhone 5s. As the owner of a new iPhone 5s myself, I am less concerned about such unlikely shenanigans than I am the fact that the scanner fails to recognize my real print roughly half the time. Read More Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. Read More
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