Cisco's big about-face on cloud services

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	Cisco's big about-face on cloud services Three years ago as part of a comprehensive cloud strategy, Cisco pledged to address every aspect of cloud except services – it did not want to compete with customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Performance Management: The Mobile App Development Playbook This comprehensive 16 page Forrester Research, Inc. report, authored by Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester VP and Principal Analyst, details a number of valuable, commonly collected metrics and describes the tools and frameworks that can help you collect them. Read now! In this Issue Cisco's $1 billion bet on the cloud may pay off After 30 years, HP brings inkjet printing to office MFP Dell continues software expansion with StatSoft acquisition Servergy becomes first company outside of IBM to build Power server Bank of America sees software-defined data centers as 'irresistible' NSA hacked into servers at Huawei headquarters, reports say Review: Riverbed brings branch office storage back to the data center Guess how many Slashdot readers are sold on Bitcoin? Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Gandalf Edition New products of the week 03.24.14 WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. PowerEdge M1000e Blade Chassis The Dell PowerEdge M1000e Modular Blade Enclosure is built from the ground up to combat data center sprawl and IT complexity and delivers one of the most flexible and manageable blade server implementations on the market. View Now Cisco's $1 billion bet on the cloud may pay off Credit: REUTERS/Robert Galbraith For a couple of years now, Cisco CEO John Chambers has been proclaiming that Cisco will be the world's No. 1 IT vendor. This proclamation has been met with mixed reactions as the IT community has many large, incumbent vendors already. Read More After 30 years, HP brings inkjet printing to office MFP Hewlett-Packard shipped its first inkjet printer in 1984, but waited 30 years to release a multifunction inkjet printer for general office printing in enterprises. Read More Dell continues software expansion with StatSoft acquisition Dell has added another company to its growing software portfolio with the acquisition of predictive analytics company StatSoft for an undisclosed amount. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM AIIM SharePoint Industry Watch AIIM surveyed its 65,000 community members to look at how the enterprise is reacting to social aspects, why organizations are exploring social, who is for and against the adoption of social. Learn More Servergy becomes first company outside of IBM to build Power server IBM for decades was the only company making servers based on its proprietary Power architecture, but that's not the case anymore. Read More Bank of America sees software-defined data centers as 'irresistible' Driven by a very strong belief in the future of software-defined data center technology, Bank of America is steering its IT to almost total virtualization, from the data center to desktop. Read More NSA hacked into servers at Huawei headquarters, reports say The U.S. National Security Agency has hacked into Huawei Technologies servers, spied on communications of company executives and collected information to plant so-called backdoors on equipment from the Chinese networking manufacturer, according to reports published over the weekend. 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 Review: Riverbed brings branch office storage back to the data center Riverbed Granite 2.5 eliminates remote office server administration and backup pains by delivering iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage over the WAN Read More Guess how many Slashdot readers are sold on Bitcoin? So I asked a colleague to guess what percentage of 15,578 presumably tech-savvy Slashdot readers would have expressed a positive attitude toward Bitcoin in a poll. "I don't know," he said, "75%?" He really didn't know. The answer is a paltry 12%. Read More Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Gandalf Edition No. 35 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, harvested from the Internet, represents the debut of Gandalf and his software wizardry. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": And if you'd like me to consider one that you've found - or created - please feel free to send it to me at buzz@nww.com. Read More New products of the week 03.24.14 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Adtran and Malwarebytes Read More
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