Networking World: 2014 by the numbers: Predictions and projections

California crop circle was Nvidia marketing stunt | 2014's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

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2014 by the numbers: Predictions and projections
Tech spending is expected to rise in 2014, say industry watchers. Find out how enterprises will spend their time and money in the coming year, according to forecasts from Gartner, IDC and the like. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Dell and Oracle

Database Backup using NetVault™ Backup and PowerVault MD3260
This paper is intended to show the process used to backup and easily restore SQL Server and Oracle databases using a combination of Dell NetVault Backup software, the Dell PowerVaultTM MD3260 storage array, and the Dell PowerEdgeTM R620 rackmount server. Read now>>

In this Issue

WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT
This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More.

California crop circle was Nvidia marketing stunt
An elaborate crop circle that appeared last week in a grain field in California was a stunt by chip-maker Nvidia. Read More

2014's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries
Network World's latest edition of the year's "25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries" includes the launch of the first GPS satellites, Lotus Notes 1.0, Nintendo's Game Boy and SimCity, as well as one of tech's most notorious false alarms: "cold fusion." In addition, the original Doctor Who television series signed off, Doogie Howser got his TV doctor's license and AT&T did something it hadn't done in its 103-year history. Read More

Cisco locked out of AT&T SDN data center?
It could have been a very unhappy New Year for Cisco. AT&T issued a Request for Information (RFI) right around the holidays that could have long-term negative implications for Cisco specifically and the networking infrastructure market overall, according to an investment analyst's report. Read More

WHITE PAPER: VCE

Power Plant Achieves Required High-Availability with VCE
Faced with an external compliance audit and the need to improve availability, one of Europe's largest power plants turned to VCE Vblock Systems to: - Transform twin data centers to active-active mode - Enable business continuity and reliable delivery of electricity - Virtualize 95% of applications Learn More

INSIDER

CIOs and CMOs: Power couple or strange bedfellows?
Marketing departments are shifting significant amounts of their own budgets toward IT-related products and services, independent of what the IT department spends, to the extent that Gartner predicts that by 2017 chief marketing officers (CMO) will spend more money on IT than chief information officers (CIO). Read More

4 reasons companies say yes to open source
Open source is free and widely available, but its benefits don't stop there. Enterprises are embracing it for its agility, a quality they value above all in these times of marketplace upheaval. Read More

Google makes timely buy of Swiss app maker
In a move likely designed to bring into its fold a team of Swiss Android developers, Google has apparently bought Bitspin, according to a post on the website of the maker of an Android alarm clock app. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors

HP Converged Storage Customers Share their Experiences
This Enterprise Strategy Group Solution Impact Analysis examines how well-designed, executed and implemented storage can elevate storage from a necessity and a cost center to an asset that contributes to the business. This report confirms that ROI is a real-world value that HP Converged Storage customers are realizing today. Learn More

Roku thinks outside the box, builds into TVs
Forget a Roku streaming video box: this year the company is building its famous video streaming service directly into televisions. Read More

Evernote promises to fix bugs after writer's detailed critique
Evernote plans to fix bugs and improve the quality of its note-taking and recording applications, following a critique that its software suffers from too many bugs. Read More

Snapchat breach seen as startup growing pains
The Snapchat breach that led to millions of user names and phone numbers posted on the Web shows how a startup's priorities of growth and features can sometimes lead to weak security, experts say. Read More

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