Amazon adds more spots for connecting directly to its cloud

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	Amazon adds more spots for connecting directly to its cloud Amazon Web Services has added four locations where enterprises can use its Direct Connect network service to communicate with its cloud, the company said on Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications Offloading Telecom Delivers a Big Payback for IT Inaccurate invoices, complicated contracts, slow provisioning and poor support from Telecom carriers wastes time, money and resources. Learn the difference a custom data network solutions provider can deliver. Read Now! In this Issue New era for Web site names begins Thursday IBM wins most patents; Microsoft only other U.S. company in top 10 Financial services firms try to scrimp on IT pay Mobility, video and cloud will drive network revenues up 8.7% in 2012, IDC says New kinds of products hit Verizon's LTE network What does 2012 have in store for Anonymous? Bang for your IT buck Data center networking discontinuity FCC chairman urges action on spectrum auctions Microsoft revamps Bing Maps routing feature Oracle partners with Cloudera for Hadoop appliance WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Aerohive Corporate Brochure The way that Wi-Fi is being used and the requirements on an enterprise Wi-Fi network are going through a fundamental and generational change, so much so that we are calling it Wireless 2.0. It's not a new term, but it is a relevant one. Read now. New era for Web site names begins Thursday A new era of Web site naming begins Thursday, when Internet policymakers start accepting applications for hundreds - perhaps thousands - of new domain name extensions such as .hotel and .paris. Read More IBM wins most patents; Microsoft only other U.S. company in top 10 IBM retained its patent crown for 2011, topping the list of U.S. patent winners for the 19th year in a row. The only other U.S. company to make the top 10, Microsoft fell from third place to sixth place, according to data from IFI Claims Patent Services. Read More Financial services firms try to scrimp on IT pay At a time when most IT hiring managers are mulling pay increases to attract in-demand talent, there's a trend among financial services firms to reduce IT pay, according to one IT staffing firm. "Some of the larger financial institutions are trying to cut some rates," says Jack Cullen, president of IT staffing and recruiting firm Modis. "That's the only industry we're seeing this in." Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Forrester: IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! Mobility, video and cloud will drive network revenues up 8.7% in 2012, IDC says A perfect storm of growth in enterprise mobility, video consumption and cloud infrastructure will come together just in time for a major refresh cycle in 2012, driving worldwide enterprise network revenues to $39.4 billion by the end of the year, IDC predicts. Read More New kinds of products hit Verizon's LTE network Verizon used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as an opportunity to show off some of the unique applications and products being developed on its LTE network. Read More What does 2012 have in store for Anonymous? Anonymous had a busy year in 2011 pushing its hacker-activist agenda on companies around the Web, to the point where just the sound of the hacker group's name can send shivers down the spine of many a CIO. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ First Industy-Wide BSM Maturity Benchmark Study This first-of-its-kind benchmark study reporting the IT and Business maturity illustrating the business service management imperative today. The survey offers insight into the current and future state of the Business Service Management imperative across global organizations. Learn More Bang for your IT buck By all accounts the economy is stronger now than it was 12 months ago, but it is also clear that companies are still moving cautiously, and for the bulk of IT that means continuing to do more with what you have, which is at least better than doing more with less. Read More Data center networking discontinuity Why did dinosaurs become extinct? I'm no paleontologist but allow me to provide an over-simplified explanation: When the environment went through radical alterations, dinosaurs couldn't adequately adapt to these changes. In a binary, "adapt or die" world, the dinosaurs died. A similar binary situation is developing with data center networks. Read More FCC chairman urges action on spectrum auctions Julius Genachowski, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, used his time on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show Wednesday to warn that if Congress doesn't let the agency move forward with its plans to free up more wireless spectrum, it risks damaging the economy into the future. Read More Microsoft revamps Bing Maps routing feature Bing's Maps search engine has an improved capability for generating driving directions, according to Microsoft. Read More Oracle partners with Cloudera for Hadoop appliance Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to bring Apache Hadoop to its Oracle Big Data Appliance, which the company officially released Tuesday. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS CES 2012 ultrabooks and tablets Ultrabooks! Ultrabooks! That's the official biggest buzzword for this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ultrabooks! In honor of these purportedly magical super-thin laptops, we've decided to make a compilation of some of the ultrabooks you'll see at CES next week. And for good measure, we've thrown in a tablet that will garner a lot of attention as well. Enjoy! GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES CES: Gigabit Wi-Fi takes center stage IPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 31 5 reasons Linux Mint is better than Ubuntu Cisco cranks up Internet TV volume at CES 4 sweet smartphones from CES 2012 The skinniest, thinnest, most emaciated products of CES 2012 Cisco gains SAN share as Brocade looks for buyer Father's attempt at parental control resulted in hacked German police system Will Microsoft's WiFi-NC set new network standard? Financial services firms try to scrimp on IT pay
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