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	Brocade unites IPv4 and IPv6 Brocade this week unveiled software for its application acceleration switches that enables them to function as gateways between existing IPv4 networks and new ones built on IPv6.  Read More WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin™ Compared This ebook will provide the fundamental differences between the Netezza TwinFin® and Oracle Exadata solutions from the perspectives of query performance, simplicity of operation and value. The ebook will help you determine which solutions best meet your business needs and how to achieve optimal results from your data. Read now In this Issue Industry split on data center network standards OpenFlow seeks to change the networking world Are your network operations automated enough? 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Read More Industry split on data center network standards The industry appears deeply fractured over the best approach to data center networks, with some vendors backing the IETF's TRILL, some backing the IEEE's SPB, others offering proprietary protocols and still others advocating a combination of approaches. Read More OpenFlow seeks to change the networking world A new foundation was announced yesterday to foster a new approach to networking. The founding members of the foundation are: Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo!. The aim of the foundation is to promote Software Defined Networking (SDN), and the open source standard they are pushing is called OpenFlow. Read More Are your network operations automated enough? As you plan for a more highly virtualized, possibly cloud computing-based future, do you ever find yourself wondering whether you've automated network management operations enough? Or, perhaps more appropriately, where next to automate? Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Join the Cloud without Reinventing the Wheel Cloud computing is making significant changes to IT, from its infrastructure to corporate culture. Making the move to the cloud doesn't mean an organization must start from scratch though, as many already have the technological tools they need in place. Read Now U.S. carriers disagree on cutting-edge networks The network chiefs of the three biggest U.S. mobile operators disagreed about some emerging network technologies during a panel discussion at CTIA Wireless, but agreed that the wireless industry is in a period of major change. Read More Cisco, others see strong data center growth Last year was a strong one for data center network equipment sales as spending rebounded from a barren 2009, and trends such as cloud, virtualization, and growing content and traffic drove demand, according to Infonetics Research. Read More Microsoft: Next level of virtualization unlocks server OS, applications Microsoft virtualizes apps running on Windows Server ahead of rival VMware. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Securing Virtualized Data Centers Understand the real need for security solutions that can address the reality of expanding virtualization. You will also learn how HP TippingPoint's secure virtualization framework allows organizations to gain control of the virtual environment by introducing in-line security policy enforcement. Read Now iPhone, Android, Windows and Linux: Microsoft now manages them all Steve Ballmer and crew aren't going to miss a moneymaking opportunity, even if that means managing iPhones, iPads, Androids and, yes, even Linux computers. Read More NASA star-gazer satellite recovers from 144-hour network glitch There was likely a pretty big sigh of relief at NASA's Ames Research Center this week as the group's star satellite, Kepler, recovered from a glitch that took it offline for 144 hours. Read More UC: Quantifying the savings If a knowledge worker could recover just 25% of their "overhead" time by use of unified communications, then this could save about six weeks per year in lost productivity. Read More Forrester: SOA is alive and well It's been a little hard of late to find references to SOA (service-oriented architecture), the buzz-phrase that once saturated the IT industry but in recent years has succumbed to "cloud computing." But SOA remains alive and relevant, according to a new Forrester Research report. Read More GoDaddy: We're ready to secure .com names with DNSSEC With more than 47 million domain names under management, GoDaddy has a huge DNS infrastructure that it has upgraded to support the emerging Internet security standard known as DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions. Read More
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