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	Will NSX snub hurt Cisco's integrated infrastructures? Did Cisco and NetApp shoot themselves in the foot by rejecting VMware’s NSX on FlexPod? This Seeking Alpha post, by investment researcher Critical Timing, implies that they did by ceding roughly one-third of the SDN market. By refusing to support NSX…Cisco and NetApp appear to be willing to risk losing a sizable share of the SDN market. Cisco and NetApp said back in June that they would not support NSX on FlexPod reference IT architectures combining Cisco compute and networking, and NetApp storage. That followed a statement from VCE in May, the coalition of Cisco and EMC building integrated and converged IT infrastructures, that it would not support NSX on its Vblock systems even though VMware invests in VCE and its hypervisors are integral to Vblocks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs This paper discusses five levers you can use to lower your mainframe MLC costs by up to 20 percent or more. Explore best practices and real-world examples of dramatic savings through a mainframe MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. Learn More In this Issue How to get $100,000 worth of Google's cloud for free Digital Ocean and CoreOS partner - Why you should know about these startups Microsoft rolls out migration tool for porting apps into Azure cloud Windows 9 leak shows Storage Sense and Wi-Fi Sense coming over from Windows Phone Oracle to acquire content storage management company Front Porch Digital G-Technology spurs 4K adoption with speedier storage drive Recent iCloud subscribers receiving partial refunds after price cuts Brocade buys NFV mobile analytics assets How network virtualization is used as a security tool Netflix looking to hire a 'Chaos Engineer' Clippy saw this one coming WHITE PAPER: Imation Storage Configuration Guide Learn how to meet specific storage requirements ranging from backup to virtual server infrastructures. With the ever-changing and fast moving IT market, it is more critical than ever to efficiently design a storage system as it provides an underpinning for all elements within the IT infrastructure. Learn More How to get $100,000 worth of Google's cloud for free Google is offering $100,000 worth of use of its cloud platform, if you're a startup. Read More Digital Ocean and CoreOS partner - Why you should know about these startups Digital Ocean is cheap, simple IaaS; CoreOS is lightweight, container-friendly Linux. It's a match made in the cloud. Read More Microsoft rolls out migration tool for porting apps into Azure cloud Read More WEBCAST: Hitachi Data Systems Building a Hybrid Cloud Cloud is a hot topic in IT, but so are the security and privacy issues surrounding it. How can IT take advantage of cloud, continue to run critical applications without significant transformation, and maintain visibility and control over data? View now Windows 9 leak shows Storage Sense and Wi-Fi Sense coming over from Windows Phone A couple more Windows Phone features are apparently headed to Windows 9, with signs of Wi-Fi Sense and Storage Sense showing up in the latest leaked preview builds.Wi-Fi Sense is a feature of Windows Phone 8.1 that automatically signs users into public Wi-Fi hotspots. It can accept terms of service on the user's behalf, and fill out a phone number, name and e-mail address if required, so the user can quickly get online with little effort. Wi-Fi Sense also share network credentials with Outlook, Skype, and Facebook contacts, so they can connect to your local Wi-Fi without knowing your password.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 7 reasons to deploy Wi-Fi security in Enterprise mode A leak from WinFuture.de shows evidence of Wi-Fi Sense in the next version of Windows, but the app itself isn't available in the latest builds. Wi-Fi Sense would be a great feature for tablet and laptop users, since they don't necessarily have a mobile broadband connection to fall back on.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Oracle to acquire content storage management company Front Porch Digital Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Front Porch Digital, a provider of technology for migrating, managing and monetizing large-scale media content.The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Oracle said late Sunday that it expects the transaction to be closed this year. Front Porch Digital will continue to operate as an independent company until then.Front Porch in Lafayette, Colorado, helps manage over 750 petabytes of data for its over 550 customers that include companies in media and entertainment, government agencies, and sports organizations. Besides the BBC, the U.S. Library of Congress, the European Parliament and NASCAR use technology from Front Porch Digital. The acquisition could help Oracle sell its own technologies such as database, engineered systems, servers and storage to address the high-performance needs of the rich-media market.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More G-Technology spurs 4K adoption with speedier storage drive Storage company debuts a new 8-bay, 64TB RAID-based storage device aimed at professional photography and videography consumers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Defend Web Properties with Citrix NetScaler Today, defending your organization's web properties means more than just protecting a handful of enterprise web applications from advanced malware. Learn more on the complexity and challenges of defending against today's modern threats and discover how Citrix NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) is an ideal defense solution. Learn more Recent iCloud subscribers receiving partial refunds after price cuts Apple is offering partial refunds to recent iCloud subscribers as it drops the price of its cloud storage plans.The refunds were first reported by Circa editor Nicholas Deleon, who received an e-mail from Apple about refunds to his personal iCloud account. Deleon had been paying $40 per year for 25 GB of storage, but will start paying $12 per year on October 10. To cover the price difference between now and then, Apple is giving Deleon a prorated refund of $2.38.Apple's iCloud storage plans previously included 5 GB of free data and cost $20 per year for an extra 10 GB, $40 per year for 20 GB, and $100 per year for 50 GB.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Brocade buys NFV mobile analytics assets Brocade this week today announced that it has acquired the network visibility and analytics technology assets from privately held Vistapointe in an all-cash transaction.Terms of the purchase were not disclosed.+MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 2014 tech merger madness+The Vistapointe software provides carrier-grade network visibility and analytics for mobile operators deploying Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) architectures, Brocade says. NFV runs network services, like firewalls, VPNs and NAT, in software on x86-based servers instead of on dedicated hardware.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More How network virtualization is used as a security tool When people think of network virtualization, the advantages that come to mind typically include faster provisioning of networks, easier management of networks and more efficient use of resources. But network virtualization can have another major benefit as well: security. VMware is one of the companies attempting to bring network virtualization into the market. Its flagship product for this is NSX and at the company’s recent VMWorld conference it said the software platform has 150 customers and an annual sales rate of $100 million. Perhaps most surprising: Up to 40% of those installations were not driven by NSX’s agility and management advantages. Instead, security was the major factor. NSX’s ability to microsegment network traffic and have pervasive virtual firewalls throughout the data center have resonated in the market, VMware officials say.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Netflix looking to hire a 'Chaos Engineer' Here’s a job offering you don’t see every day (asterisks mine): “Netflix is hiring a ‘Chaos Engineer’ … Basically, somebody to go in and f**k s**t up to prove we can recover. Ping me for details!”The “recruiter” in this case is Dan Woods, a senior software engineer at Netflix, and the “listing” was in the form of a tweet, which elicited a string of wisecracks – and a few expressions of interest -- from the Twitter crowd: Netflix is no stranger to chaos. In 2012 the company released the source code for Chaos Monkey, the first of its Simian Army collection of cloud testing tools.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Clippy saw this one coming The image above is making the rounds on Twitter this morning. And while it would seem to be commentary on the official announcement that Microsoft is buying the maker of Minecraft for $2.5 billion, it was actually published on a site called Dorkly two  years ago.Author unknown but prescient. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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