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	Riverbed may go private in a $3 billion deal Investment company Elliott Management has offered to buy WAN optimization vendor Riverbed Technology for just over $3 billion while giving Riverbed a chance to entertain higher bids. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate The Need for Enterprise-Grade File Transfer From email to Dropbox and FTP, the status quo of file transfer in most organizations is UFT—or Unmanaged File Transfer. That's the troubling finding of a 2013 survey conducted by Osterman Research. Read this paper to learn how enterprise-grade Managed File Transfer (MFT) can help. View Now In this Issue More unlicensed spectrum could be on the horizon, FCC chairman says Capital letter 'S,' 'D,' 'N' will never happen Juniper SDN veteran lands at Brocade T-Mobile will pay you to break up with your carrier Network chief likes AT&T's spectrum holdings -- as the carrier buys more With Sprint's new plan, friends and neighbors can be your 'framily' Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Ruined Proposal Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive WHITE PAPER: SAP Get Started with SAP HANA ebook This ebook introduces the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform and describes how it can transform your business. SAP HANA provides standard offerings to help with a range of business issues and can be incorporated into your current infrastructure, with preconfigured software, content and business-user enablement. Learn more More unlicensed spectrum could be on the horizon, FCC chairman says Wireless users in the U.S. could gain new blocks of unlicensed wireless spectrum as several high-profile auctions are completed over the next 18 months, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday. Read More Capital letter 'S,' 'D,' 'N' will never happen Rack and stack that network and then walk away and leave it alone. VMware's NSX technology will provide all the control necessary going forward, says Steve Mullaney, senior vice president and general manager of VMware's Networking & Security Business Unit. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors HP BladeSystem Leadership and Innovation for Data Centers In Gartner's 2013 Blade Server Magic Quadrant, HP has been positioned as a leader for completeness of vision and ability to execute. Read this paper to learn why HP BladeSystem is the leading choice of IT professionals. Learn More Juniper SDN veteran lands at Brocade Brocade has named former Cisco and Juniper engineer Benson Schliesser as distinguished engineer, responsible for helping shape the company's network virtualization strategy. Read More T-Mobile will pay you to break up with your carrier Following a leaky and occasional drama-filled lead-up , T-Mobile finally unveiled the latest chapter in its Uncarrier initiative. Today the company announced it will pay customers to break their current carrier contracts with their current carriers and switch over to Team Magenta. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks Pitfalls To Avoid In Combining Acceleration Technologies This May 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. report looks at the impact of website performance on customer satisfaction and revenue, and why meeting high expectations is more complex than ever. Learn More Network chief likes AT&T's spectrum holdings -- as the carrier buys more When AT&T technology and network chief John Donovan said on Monday that he felt good about the carrier's spectrum position, he had an extra reason for his optimism. Read More With Sprint's new plan, friends and neighbors can be your 'framily' Sprint will let friends, neighbors or any other group join up for savings on monthly bills under the Sprint Framily Plan, announced on Tuesday. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Ruined Proposal Edition No. 28 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, gleaned from the Internet, demonstrates both the risks associated with target advertising and those of sharing a computer. The good news is that she said yes. 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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