SDN changing the shape of networking, IT careers

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	SDN changing the shape of networking, IT careers Cisco recently announced new certifications for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) programmable networking initiative, its response to software-defined networking. The certifications are designed to tailor new roles for IT practitioners looking to transition their company's infrastructures to programmable, application policy driven, SDN-type environments. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Intel Corporation Intel® Datacenter Manager Portfolio Control and optimize your infrastructure, business models, and operational expenditures. With the software products in the Intel DCM Portfolio, IT and facility managers have the tools to improve manageability, increase availability, and reduce costs across key parameters, such as energy usage, monitoring, security, automation, and cloud. 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Learn how performance monitoring tools can provide network managers and IT administrators insight and visibility into networks, infrastructures and applications far in advance, resulting in smooth transitions, accomplished network managers, and project success. Learn More HP bucks up unified access line to better battle Cisco, others HP this week at the annual Interop Las Vegas conference is rolling out extensions to its unified access wired/wireless product portfolio designed to deliver consistent operation and management across the mixed infrastructure. Read More WD releases Thunderbolt drive with selectable RAID settings The My Passport Pro comes in 2TB and 4TB models and can be set to RAID 0 or 1. Read More Driving innovation at Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services, with assets under administration of $4.7 trillion, and it didn't get there by using yesterday's technology. In fact, the company has a standalone group, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology – more commonly referred to as Fidelity Labs -- whose job it is to take the long view, to examine technologies years before they become mainstream and help the firm get a leg up. Read More 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 What will the Web look like in 2039? (Google Hangout) With the recent marking of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web (although as my guest points out, the Internet has been around much longer), I had a chance to do a video chat via Google+ Hangout with Nathaniel Borenstein of Mimecast about the past and future of the Web. Read More Early STEM Education Will Lead to More Women in IT A leading advocate for introducing girls to computer science argues that educators must develop required programs at the K-12 level to resolve gender imbalance in the tech sector. Read More Beyond Meritocracy: 6 Ways IT Employee Performance Evaluations Are Changing Neither employees nor their managers look forward to annual performance reviews. That's why experts suggest using methods and tools that provide valuable, real-time feedback on how employees are doing. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE Healthcare Firm Ramps Up for Claims Processing Spikes Virtualizing compute, storage and networks with VCE was the answer for one IT-constrained healthcare organization who was able to: - Migrate applications in just five days (compared to two months previously) - Improve storage and application performance by 25%-40% - Meet stringent state-regulated SLAs - Reduce data center footprint by 75% Learn More Nadella names Guthrie his successor to head Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise group Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has filled three important executive positions, as he continues putting his mark on the company he was chosen to lead about two months ago. Read More Review of cloud's mega-week: Cisco, Google, Amazon and Microsoft all make big moves in the cloud It was a mega-week in the cloud for news from the big players. Check out all the news in our Storify below! Read More Apple was founded April Fool's Day 1976? Not so, says ... Woz? Virtually everyone agrees that Apple was "founded" on April 1, 1976 ... everyone except for one of Apple's founders. Read More
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