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	HP pivots, says open sourcing SDNs is right Seven months after dismissing OpenDaylight, HP has raised its membership in the vendor-driven open source SDN consortium to its highest and most expensive tier. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Silver Peak Systems Forced into a Riverbed Upgrade? Is your Riverbed WAN optimization hardware up for a refresh? Discover the better choice. Former Riverbed customers have realized a 50% faster ROI, higher performance and 80% cost savings by switching to Silver Peak software. Learn more and download a free trial now! In this Issue Inflight Wi-Fi: Not just a business-class perk anymore Viptela joins the WAN disruption party Citrix brings desktop management to XenMobile Hackers now crave patches, and Microsoft's giving them just what they want NTT DoCoMo takes aim at 10Gbps with 5G tests Cisco's IoT chief resigns Five U.S. ISPs accused of 'deliberately harming' broadband speeds 7 Business Dashboards That Offer Striking Data Visualizations New products of the week 05.05.14 WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Your Guide to Troubleshooting VoIP Real-time voice communications are sensitive to delay and variation in packet arrival times. This paper guides you through the essentials of VoIP troubleshooting, including common problems as well as the metrics you should employ to fix and prevent them. Learn More Inflight Wi-Fi: Not just a business-class perk anymore AT&T recently announced that it will mobilize the skies with a new inflight Wi-Fi service sometime in the second half of 2015. Based on its announcement, the company wants to give traveling consumers more than email, slow web browsing and blocked Netflix and YouTube videos that they experience from today's inflight Wi-Fi. Read More Viptela joins the WAN disruption party Happy Cinco De Mayo to all, and I hope everyone had a great Star Wars weekend (May the 4th be with all of you!). It appears that, while many of us were watching Star Wars movies (2-6 I hope, as everyone hates 1) or planning a big Mexican feast, the folks over at Viptela were also busy. Monday morning, like a Jedi in the shadows, Viptela came out of stealth mode a week after CloudGenix launched, to... Read More Citrix brings desktop management to XenMobile Citrix Systems wants to manage desktops and mobile devices with the latest version of XenMobile, and is also working on making it easier for XenApp users to upgrade. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kemp Technologies Planning a Private Enterprise Cloud? What you should know about SDN and Load Balancing/ADC's From Gartner & Kemp Technologies. Enterprises Planning Private Clouds should include Software Defined Networking with major network changes Learn More Hackers now crave patches, and Microsoft's giving them just what they want At least one of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates looks like an excellent candidate to hackers as they poke around for bugs in the now-retired Windows XP. Read More NTT DoCoMo takes aim at 10Gbps with 5G tests Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo has joined forces with six vendors to conduct experimental trials of emerging 5G technologies, hoping to lay the groundwork for mobile networks that offer data transmissions at more than 10Gbps. Read More Cisco's IoT chief resigns Cisco Systems' point man on the Internet of Things (IoT) has resigned just as industries start to explore how millions of sensors and devices can be connected over networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc. Five Steps to Developing a Successful Mobile Strategy Don't lose time and money with a "throw an app against a wall to see if sticks" approach to mobile. It won't work. You need a well-thought-out strategy to take full advantage of mobile. This white paper lays out the five important steps to a robust enterprise mobile strategy. Learn more. Five U.S. ISPs accused of 'deliberately harming' broadband speeds Five major ISPs in the U.S. and one in Europe are intentionally allowing broadband performance to degrade for some customers, communications company Level 3 alleged in a recent company blog post. Read More 7 Business Dashboards That Offer Striking Data Visualizations The more data you analyze, the more complex it gets. To help you find value in all that data, visualize it using one of these seven dashboard apps. Read More New products of the week 05.05.14 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Radware and CA Read More
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