Brocade pitches open networking to cash-strapped feds

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	Brocade pitches open networking to cash-strapped feds If storage and compute power can be purchased on a usage-based pricing model, like a utility, then why can't networking follow the same path? Moreover, why shouldn't that network run on an open architecture that fosters competition among multiple service providers? That's Brocade's pitch to the federal government – a market that the networking vendor is targeting aggressively in its bid to gain share from its larger rival Cisco Systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. 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View now Verizon is tops in network performance, reliability, speed in 2014 tests Verizon Wireless beat out the other three national carriers for overall network performance, reliability and speed in the first half of 2014, according to an analysis by RootMetrics. AT&T was not far behind Verizon. Read More INSIDER Review: Citrix Xen Mobile rates a spot on your MDM short list When we reviewed six mobile device management products in 2013, Citrix declined the opportunity to participate, but the company has changed its mind with the recent release of Xen Mobile v9.0 MDM. In our testing, we found that the software stacks up nicely against AirWatch and Good Technology, the two leaders from that review, and should be on any IT manager's short list, particularly if you already use other Citrix connectivity products. Read More Start-up fights ambush attacks on SDN, virtual machine networks Start-up GuardiCore is working on a security product that works through a 'honeypot' approach to detect and block stealthy attacks on software-defined networks (SDN) and multi-vendor virtual-machine infrastructures for enterprise customers as well as cloud-service providers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks IdentiFi Brochure IdentiFi Wireless is proven to be the most scalable Wireless solution on the market. This didn't happen overnight; IdentiFi Wireless technology has grown and evolved for over a decade with an extensive and diversified customer base. Learn more about the entire IdentiFi Wireless Solution. Learn more Vehicle-to-vehicle networks could save over 1,000 lives a year, US says The U.S. government wants to force cars to talk to each other over wireless networks, saying that could save more than 1,000 lives every year. 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