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	How will Cisco COPE with SDNs? Cisco's got a software-defined networking (SDN) architecture but it won't say much about it. SDNs are a hot topic industrywide with the promise of abstracting the physical network infrastructure from control of it, enabling more adaptability for things like cloud computing and easier feature extension. Read More WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Network/Cloud Security & Business Continuity eGuide Network security today means much more than simply building a perimeter around the enterprise network to defend from threats. With cloud-computing models becoming more popular, enterprises are extending corporate data and applications outside the four walls of the data center. Learn More! In this Issue All Things Interop Part 1 It's time for Interop to go back to the future Celebrating the birthplace of the Internet in pictures Are you Touchy About your Appliances? What a Psychopath Can Teach Us About Information Security On to Interop 2012: BYOD, Cloud, SDN, slot machines, and roulette What is WAN Virtualization? MIT business school grapples with virtualization HP has all the ingredients for software defined networking, almost HP delivers power over Ethernet with all-in-one zero client Cisco hits record quarterly revenue WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option. Read now. All Things Interop Part 1 I'm here in Las Vegas wrapping up Interop 2012. I now understand why Hunter S. Thompson binged on alcohol and narcotics when visiting this town -- you need these substances to create the illusion that this town is the least bit palatable. Aside from the Sin City aspect, Interop was eventful and the industry seems to be in good shape. A few thoughts: Read More It's time for Interop to go back to the future In the movie "Back to the Future," Dr. Emmit Brown built a Delorean-based time machine that when the "flux capacitor" was powered with 1.21 gigawatts (pronounced jig-a-watts in the movie), it would allow someone to go back in time (or ahead). I just got back from this year's Interop conference and it started me thinking about the past. So let's set the old time machine to the spring of... Read More Celebrating the birthplace of the Internet in pictures Last Nov. 21 marked the 42nd anniversary of the first permanent Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) link between UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP) and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute. By Dec. 5, 1969, the original four-node ARPANET environment was set up. History notes this network as the world's first operational packet switching network and the core of what is today's Internet. UCLA recently opened the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive in honor of the ARPANET project's overseer Professor Leonard Kleinrock, to preserve and celebrate the birthplace of the Internet. The first message between the nodes had been sent by Kleinrock on Oct. 29, 1969. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Warp Speed: The Nuts and Bolts of Web Acceleration Solutions Enterprises are quickly realizing that they can't achieve the web performance they need by simply deploying their web server on a high-speed network. Improving page rendering speeds incrementally through content caching is no longer enough. It's time to look for dramatic performance gains by applying optimization techniques right at the browser. Learn More! Are you Touchy About your Appliances? Us guys, we like our things – our cars, computers, gadgets, you name it. We like tangible stuff that we can touch and hold, none of this touchy, feely stuff. So what's the deal then with the future of our network gear? Are we destined for "manly" physical appliances or are we going for those "pansy" virtual appliances? Read More What a Psychopath Can Teach Us About Information Security In David Mamet's 1992 film "Glengarry Glen Ross," Alec Baldwin's character Blake – sent by the firm's owners Mitch and Murray to lay down some tough love on the salesmen at a remote office of their real estate agency – uses as one of his motivational tools the acronym "AIDA." It stands for "Attention, Interest, Decision, Action" and it has a lot to teach us about how information... Read More On to Interop 2012: BYOD, Cloud, SDN, slot machines, and roulette I'll be on an airplane in a few hours bound for Las Vegas and Interop 2012. Here's what I'm expecting at the show: 1. SDN, the sequel. With the Open Networking Summit (ONS) last month and Interop this week, software-defined networking is the gift that keeps on giving. Interop will feature an OpenFlow plug-fest and lots of rhetoric. What I'm looking for, however, are real use cases, mature products,... Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks IDC Worldwide Enterprise WLAN 2011-2012 Vendor Analysis Covering a variety of vendors in the enterprise WLAN market, this evaluation is based on various deployment architectures and set of parameters that assess vendors relative to one another and to those factors expected to be most conducive to success in the short and the long term. Read now. What is WAN Virtualization? As you know if you've been reading this column for the last several weeks, I believe that we're at the dawn of a NEW architecture that will revolutionize the enterprise WAN, enabling WAN managers to have much more bandwidth at much lower cost than their private MPLS WANs alone deliver today, with improved reliability and application performance predictability for traditional as well as newer applications,... Read More MIT business school grapples with virtualization MIT's Sloan School of Management has embraced virtualized desktops as a way to meet user needs and streamline operations, but the IT staff accepts that finding just the right mix of hardware and software is an ongoing challenge. Read More HP has all the ingredients for software defined networking, almost HP says it has all of the necessary orchestration tools for its software defined networking strategy - the big question is, will it build its own controller? Read More HP delivers power over Ethernet with all-in-one zero client HP has launched a new zero client which uses "one wire" technology to deliver power over Ethernet. Read More Cisco hits record quarterly revenue Crediting a strategy that exploits users' move to cloud computing, Cisco Systems on Thursday reported record net sales of US$11.6 billion for the quarter ending April 28, up 6.6 percent from the year-earlier period. Read More
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