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	What's your favorite enterprise IT product? Do you have a favorite enterprise IT product you can't live without? Tell us about it and we'll share your raves with our readers. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Companies like Foursquare, StrongMail, and ExoIS are taking charge of cloud server security using Halo from CloudPassage, which ensures easy, scalable, and automated security for dynamic cloud environments. Register today to Secure 25 Cloud Servers for Free with Halo Basic. In this Issue A $500,000 bet on Internet security Wi-Fi, small cells could disrupt mobile Science: too many connections weakens networks Facebook acquires staff behind file-transfer startup Investment firm warns of delays, performance issues in Juniper products PCI Express over optical cabling: Performance, simplicity, efficiency Comcast dives into Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Should US intelligence agency have a role in protecting electric grid? FCC asks for comments on mobile network shutdowns for public safety Wireless network demands push carriers to innovate Cisco brings Hotspot 2.0 carrier-network smarts to its Wi-Fi WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! A $500,000 bet on Internet security Longtime cloud security advocate Philippe Courtot believes he has identified the Achilles' heel of cloud security, and he wants to protect it. Read More Wi-Fi, small cells could disrupt mobile The rise of mixed mobile networks of Wi-Fi, small cells and traditional base stations, a major theme of this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, may change the competitive landscape of both service providers and equipment vendors. Read More Science: too many connections weakens networks When it comes to connecting networks or other systems together, it is best to have many, but not too many, connections, mathematicians have found. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 8 Reasons Why Citrix NetScaler Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. Shift up to the Cloud. Download 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Learn More Facebook acquires staff behind file-transfer startup Facebook has acquired the team behind file-transfer startup Caffeinated Mind, which offered an on-demand peer-to-peer file sharing system. Read More Investment firm warns of delays, performance issues in Juniper products Is Juniper experiencing longer product delays and performance issues than the company has disclosed? Read More PCI Express over optical cabling: Performance, simplicity, efficiency Using PCIe to natively connect servers, switches and storage elements can lower overall system costs by reducing or eliminating the number of protocol conversions. Additionally, this increased system simplicity provides networks with latency, power and dollars-per-gigabit advantages. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC How Data Center Management Software Improves Planning Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enabling the business to respond more quickly to market demands. Learn More Comcast dives into Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Carrier Ethernet 2.0 made its debut less than a month ago and Comcast is already raring to get started with the new technology. Read More Should US intelligence agency have a role in protecting electric grid? As Congress wrestles over cybersecurity legislation related to securing critical infrastructure and the electric power grid, arguments are surfacing on whether the power companies should handle any new federally mandated network protections or whether the U.S. government -- in particular the National Security Agency -- should be in the middle of it. Read More FCC asks for comments on mobile network shutdowns for public safety The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comments on whether it's ever appropriate for law enforcement agencies to shut down mobile networks in the name of public safety, as Bay Area Rapid Transit did last August. Read More Wireless network demands push carriers to innovate Executives from three wireless carriers offered testimony Tuesday showing how an explosion of wireless users and devices are forcing them to expand their networks without necessarily the promise of revenue growth to keep up. Read More Cisco brings Hotspot 2.0 carrier-network smarts to its Wi-Fi Cisco Systems announced its take on the reshaping of mobile networks that is emerging at this week's Mobile World Congress on Tuesday, saying it can build a Wi-Fi infrastructure spanning all the way from the access point to the core network. Read More
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