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	FIRST LOOK: Cisco Nexus 9000 The Cisco Nexus 9000 series, the fruit of Cisco's Insieme spin-in, is more than another fast router -- it's a change in the way that high-end routers are designed and built. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Why workloads define cloud strategies Cloud computing changes how organizations think about their business and IT strategies. As organizations define their cloud strategies, it is imperative to think about the use cases and application workloads that will run in the cloud, as these will ultimately define your cloud architecture and which solutions to deploy. View now In this Issue First Look: Cisco ACI re-imagines the enterprise data center network Who's hiring? Marketing lures more tech pros Users refuse to chuck XP as Windows 8 uptake flattens Android takes 62 percent share of tablet market in 2013 Is SDN your next security nightmare? Cisco: $300,000 prize for Internet of Things security apps Shrinking microcontrollers, means smaller wearable computers The IETF needed a wake-up call on security, says chairman Brocade seeks SDN edge with early OpenFlow 1.3 support WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Getting Agnostic about Mobile Devices The need for flawless, high-performing mobile apps is critical, yet many organizations struggle. This paper explains how to accurately analyze performance of mobile apps, calculate the cost of app failure, and how to develop, deploy and test mobile apps so that malfunctions don't happen. Read more! First Look: Cisco ACI re-imagines the enterprise data center network Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a revolutionary re-thinking of how to provision and manage data center networks. While the early version we looked at has some rough edges, and Cisco still has some hard problems to solve, ACI has the potential to completely change the way that large, highly virtualized data center networks are configured and built. Read More Who's hiring? Marketing lures more tech pros The hiring scene is changing for tech pros. Marketing departments are bolstering their technical ranks to help with big data, cloud, SEO, and mobile development initiatives. Read More Users refuse to chuck XP as Windows 8 uptake flattens For the second month in a row, Windows XP and Windows 8 defied their maker's wishes, as XP gained user share, and Windows 8, the OS Microsoft hopes will fuel sales of new devices, flatlined in February. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Tipping Point 8 Ways To Monitor Network Security in the Age of BYOD This SlashGuide offers unique insight and analysis into how network security professionals can better identify, manage, and contain the leading network security risk factors that arise from a mobile, always-on workforce. Learn More>> Android takes 62 percent share of tablet market in 2013 Android and Samsung Electronics were the big winners in the tablet market last year, as sales grew by 68 percent, according to market research company Gartner. Read More Is SDN your next security nightmare? The big buzzword in networking these days is Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a de-coupling of the data plane and the control plane that allows you to manage physical devices via a software-based controller sitting on a general purpose server. Read More Cisco: $300,000 prize for Internet of Things security apps Cisco kicked off a contest with $300,000 in prize money that challenges security experts around the world to put together ways to secure what's now called the "Internet of Things," the wide range of non-traditional computing devices used on the electric grid, in healthcare and many other industries. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Tipping Point The Importance of Vulnerability Intelligence HP TippingPoint Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) and Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) combine technology that focuses on the root problems common to multiple threats with the latest vulnerability intelligence provided by HP Security Research and supported by more than 3,000 external security researchers. Read to learn more. Learn More>> Shrinking microcontrollers, means smaller wearable computers If you want a wearable Internet of Things, the electronics have to be as small and as energy efficient as possible. That's why a new microcontroller by Freescale Semiconductor is notable. Read More The IETF needed a wake-up call on security, says chairman Security and how to protect users from pervasive monitoring will dominate the proceedings when members of Internet Engineering Task Force meet in London starting Sunday. Read More Brocade seeks SDN edge with early OpenFlow 1.3 support Brocade this week announced broad support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP product line to extend SDNs beyond research and academia and into commercial and enterprise networks. Read More
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