Open Networking Summit Day 2: Cisco says "We see SDN as the next evolution of networking"

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	Open Networking Summit Day 2: Cisco says "We see SDN as the next evolution of networking" I have to say that after an amazing Day 2 at the Open Networking Summit, I am convinced that OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are not only here to stay, but they will define the future of networking. I speak to a lot of enterprise customers about Software Defined Networking, and outside of the academic and development communities; it is still a new and somewhat unfamiliar term. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Building the Next Generation Data Center Virtualization promotes flexible utilization of IT resources, reduced capital costs, high energy efficiency, highly-available applications, and improved business continuity. Learn More In this Issue Juniper hits Q3 targets, lands Cisco switching director Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill What's OpenFlow's killer app? FAQ on Son of Stuxnet Enterasys OneFabric Makes Sense Open Networking Summit Day 1 Recap OpenFlow and SDN: Networking's future? WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Eliminate Architectural Limitations of WLANs Reduce the cost and complexity of wireless networks with cloud-enabled, distributed Wi-Fi and routing. By removing the architectural limitations of traditional WLANs, you can support identity-based access and enable delivery of mission-critical applications and services to any user, on any device, at any time without a single point of failure. Read now! Juniper hits Q3 targets, lands Cisco switching director Juniper met expectations for its third quarter earnings, but the company still faces challenges in the current fourth quarter and into early 2012. Juniper is waiting for four key product developments to ramp before reaching the revenue growth levels - 20% per year - it expects and is accustomed to. Read More Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill With CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it's time to offer up some sacred caws for sacrifice. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Database Security What to Look for With this paper Tanya Baccum, SANS Institute analyst, examines these measures for holistically protecting Oracle database from the inside out. Learn More Today! What's OpenFlow's killer app? As most participants at the inaugural Open Networking Summit extolled the virtues of software-defined networking (SDN) and the OpenFlow protocol, others are waiting for key features to emerge before considering it for their networks. Read More FAQ on Son of Stuxnet Duqu is primarily a remote-access Trojan targeted at a limited number of organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East to gather intelligence that can help plan a future attack. Read More WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Eliminate Packet Loss during 10G Monitoring There are a number of choices for deploying packed-based monitoring and analysis against 10G segments, but as traffic volumes grow, the limitations of many options become problematic. This EMA paper examines the issues surrounding 10G network management and monitoring with emphasis on effective packed-based instrumentation. Read More Enterasys OneFabric Makes Sense Just what is a "network fabric?" Generally, the term is used to describe a low-latency, loss-less, converged, flat network architecture for data centers. That said, the term has been co-opted by marketing types so its hard to know what "network fabric" means anymore. Read More Open Networking Summit Day 1 Recap Tech industry leaders converged on Stanford University today to kick off the 2011 Open Networking Summit. It has been a big year for Open Networking, and the sell-out crowd at Stanford attests to the rising popularity and influence of the Open Networking Foundation. Today, the meetings were broken out into two separate tracks, a technical track, and a managerial track focused on use cases and value... Read More OpenFlow and SDN: Networking's future? The future of networking will be defined by software. That was the overriding theme after the first day of the inaugural Open Networking Summit, a conference dedicated to software-defined networking (SDN)and OpenFlow, the open source API defined to enable multivendor switches and routers to be programmable. Read More
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