WANs could stand to get faster, survey finds

	Report has IBM looking to exit SDNs | Ex-network engineer faces prison after admitting he sabotaged employer's system
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	WANs could stand to get faster, survey finds Nearly nine out of 10 respondents to a Talari Networks survey of IT professionals said that their wide area network was a problem for business-critical applications either occasionally or frequently, as WAN budgets are set to increase over the course of the coming year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Wan Deduplication: Getting More by Sending Less Recently, data deduplication has made its way from the storage to the networking community. More specifically, it has become an important tool for optimizing application performance across the WAN. This paper discusses how WAN deduplication works, and how it can be effectively deployed as a complement to existing storage deduplication solutions. Learn more >> In this Issue Report has IBM looking to exit SDNs Ex-network engineer faces prison after admitting he sabotaged employer's system Laser-focused fiber optics researcher wins $481K Japan Prize Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Siri.cat Edition Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology 4 Ways WAN Optimization Can Benefit Your Organization WAN optimization has evolved into a complete system that optimizes traffic across a broad range of most popular applications while providing deep visibility into performance. Read Now Report has IBM looking to exit SDNs IBM is reportedly looking to sell its software defined networking business for $1 billion. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent; Avaya; Brocade; HP The Software-Defined Network Challenge Server virtualization has put new demands on the network. Servers need to be configured and policies applied to network traffic within seconds. Gone are the days where everything is preplanned or an hour is considered fast. Virtualization has also made devices more mobile. View Now>> Ex-network engineer faces prison after admitting he sabotaged employer's system A former network engineer at a West Virginia oil and gas company could face up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty this week to sabotaging the company's systems so badly that its operations were affected for a month. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE Vblock™ Systems and SAP: Transform Your Business You rely on your ERP System to drive your business and give you a strategic advantage. Now you can speed time-to-value throughout your operations while also lowering costs by running your SAP applications on VCE™ Vblock™ Systems. Learn More Laser-focused fiber optics researcher wins $481K Japan Prize A pioneering researcher in the field of semiconductor lasers for enabling high capacity, long-distance fiber networks like those that provide the Internet's physical foundation has won the 2014 Japan Prize in the field of electronics, information and communication. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Siri.cat Edition No. 31 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, collected from the better addresses on the Internet, features our first appearance from "Tech Savvy Cat" and Siri. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": 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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