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	Startup founded by ex-Cisco execs pushes software-defined networking Software-defined networking startup Embrane this week came out of stealth mode to unveil its product and strategy for virtualizing network services. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Sorting Out the Alphabet Soup of VPN Solutions MPLS-based IP VPN technology has become the leading WAN solution for connectivity, minimal capex and advantageous pay-for-use pricing. But it's a cloudy alphabet soup of VPN acronyms: IP. MPLS. CoS. QoS. FR and ATM. IPSec. SSL. VoMPLS. View More In this Issue Private investment firm buys Blue Coat for $1.3 billion Usenix: Google deploys IPv6 for internal network New Cisco initiative addresses growth in cloud-based services What's next with hypervisors? IBM demonstrates first Racetrack Memory chip Flow launches new data exchange technology Testing shows IPv6 is becoming deployable in customer edge routers Why are you online? Just passing time HP has new cloud certifications for technical experts Usenix: Dartmouth expanding diff, grep Unix tools WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Ultralight Branch Ultralight branches let the business drive the placement and lifespan of branches while minimizing real estate, infrastructure, operational, and service costs. Read now. Private investment firm buys Blue Coat for $1.3 billion Blue Coat Systems has agreed to be bought by a private equity firm for about $1.3 billion, which will buy out shareholders for a 48% premium over what the company's stock sold for the day before the deal was announced. Read More Usenix: Google deploys IPv6 for internal network In a project that has taken longer than company engineers anticipated, Google is rolling out IPv6 across its entire internal employee network. Read More New Cisco initiative addresses growth in cloud-based services Cisco has introduced CloudVerse as a framework designed to help organizations build, manage and connect public, private and hybrid clouds. Cisco CloudVerse combines three elements -- Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network, and Cloud Applications and Services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Map Critical Network Assets and Dependencies Learn how Riverbed provided the International Herald Tribune with an end-to-end view of application delivery paths – from servers to desktops, and how advanced traffic analysis ensured faster problem resolution and more effective WAN management. Read now! What's next with hypervisors? The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly. To get a handle on recent developments, Network World Editor in Chief John Dix corralled a panel of experts to assess where we are today and where we're going. The experts included Al Gillen, an analyst IDC who tracks virtualization developments, Kerry Kim, director of solutions marketing at SUSE, and Adam Jollans, program director of IBM's Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy. Read More IBM demonstrates first Racetrack Memory chip IBM demonstrated its first Racetrack Memory chip, which could offer as much data storage capacity as a hard drive but with the read/write speeds of DRAM and durability of NAND flash. Read More Flow launches new data exchange technology Start-up Flow Corp. recently launched real-time data exchange technology for mobile developers, consumers and enterprises. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell The 2011 Cloud Networking Report - Part 1 The primary goal of this report is to describe the challenges and solutions that are associated with cloud networking. A secondary goal of this report is to identify how IT organizations are currently approaching cloud networking by comparing 2010 and 2011 survey results. Read more Testing shows IPv6 is becoming deployable in customer edge routers The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) hosted its third IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) Router Interoperability Test Event the week of November 7-11, 2011. The event brought together users and suppliers of CE Router equipment in order to gain perspective on the current status of interoperability against the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers. Read More Why are you online? Just passing time Using the Internet out of boredom? You're not alone. More adults than ever before are using the Internet to kill time, thanks to the prevalence of high-speed broadband connections and the explosion of social networking. Read More HP has new cloud certifications for technical experts HP has a new set of expert-level cloud certifications for IT professionals who can design and develop cloud computing solutions based on open systems. The training for the certification exams helps technical professionals gain hands-on experience and knowledge across the cloud technology spectrum. Read More Usenix: Dartmouth expanding diff, grep Unix tools With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix command line utilities to handle more complex types of data. Read More
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