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	Celebrating 25 years of Cisco Networkers This year, Cisco recognizes the 25th anniversary of its Networkers user conference. To put this run in perspective, here's a timeline of Cisco-specific events interspersed with world, national, cultural and technology milestones that occurred over this period. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Corvil Corvil & EMA Webcast: Unlock the power of the network today! Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT. See how powerful in-flow network data can be as a source of vital business and operational intelligence. Three real world examples will show how a combined app and network analytics approach enables the transition to converged, service-oriented IT. Register here today. Attendance limited to first 100. In this Issue Ex-Cisco CEO reflects, looks ahead on 25 years of Networkers Cisco will lead SDN and win IT, Chambers says Lenovo plans new cloud offerings for mobile devices, data centers Cisco's Chambers tells Obama that surveillance impacts technology sales OpenStack: Still waiting for the users OpenStack 101: The parts that make up the project 15 most powerful OpenStack companies Server reboot puts scare into parents Wayback Machine indexes 400 billionth page WHITE PAPER: PC Connection | Cisco | Intel® It's Time to Refresh Your Data Center In this Whitepaper, we'll take a close look at how Cisco® Unified Computing System (UCS®) with intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors is revolutionizing the way businesses store and access information. Learn More Ex-Cisco CEO reflects, looks ahead on 25 years of Networkers John Morgridge was Cisco's first CEO. He took the company public and presided over its growth until John Chambers took over as CEO in 1995. On the 25th anniversary of the Networker's user conference this week, Morgridge, 80, reflects on the past and looks ahead to the future as Cisco's Chairman Emeritus. Read More Cisco will lead SDN and win IT, Chambers says There's a big showdown coming in IT pitting no-name hardware with overlaid software against purpose-built architectures that stretch from data centers to the edges of networks, Cisco CEO John Chambers says. Read More Lenovo plans new cloud offerings for mobile devices, data centers The ability to come up with cohesive cloud offering has eluded Lenovo for years, but the company is taking steps to offer more services that it can wrap around its mobile devices and enterprise products. Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Survival Tips for Big Data's Impact on Network Performance The pressure is on to show tangible value from big data rollouts. 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 Cisco's Chambers tells Obama that surveillance impacts technology sales Cisco Systems' CEO John Chambers has written to U.S. President Barack Obama, asking for his intervention so that U.S. technology sales are not affected by a loss in trust as a result of reports of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency. Read More OpenStack: Still waiting for the users OpenStack has an impressive list of corporate backers. Red Hat, Rackspace, HP, IBM and AT&T are contributing thousands of lines of code to the open source project and helping deliver an updated version of the cloud computing platform twice a year to allow for easier installation and better manageability. Read More OpenStack 101: The parts that make up the project At its core, OpenStack is an operating system that builds public or private clouds. But OpenStack is a platform, it's not just one piece of software that's downloaded and installed to "voila!" build a cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Infortrend Optimized Efficiency for SMB Datacenters Did you know that Infortrend's EonStor DS systems are ideal solutions for storage infrastructure consolidation, high-availability clusters, server virtualization and green datacenters? And now, they're 16Gb Fibre Channel-ready. Learn more >> 15 most powerful OpenStack companies OpenStack at its core is an open source project - it's free code. But what makes OpenStack come alive are the vendors that have contributed to make that raw code and then turned it into a product businesses can use. Read More Server reboot puts scare into parents I might have been one of those parents, as these erroneous absentee calls were delivered in the town where I live. However, I first learned of the problem via an email announcing that it was only a false alarm. From a Hopkinton, Mass., school website: Read More Wayback Machine indexes 400 billionth page The Internet Archive Wayback Machine, an indispensable chronicler of the Web for going on two decades now, late last week announced a major milestone. From an Internet Archive blog post: Read More
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