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	Cisco has some more company in SDNs Stealthy data center start-up Plexxi is revealing a tiny bit more about itself. The company blogged this week that it is now entering "private beta" with its products, the substance of which Plexxi is still tight-lipped about. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: BYOD & Mobile Device Management Tech Seminar One Day Tech Seminar - BYOD & Mobile Device Management Attend and learn how to implement the top five corporate policies and security tactics that organizations must adopt to ensure they can mitigate risk while empowering a mobile workforce. BYOD & Mobile Device Management Tech Seminar - 6/26 - Boston Click to continue In this Issue Application performance: The key goal of WAN optimization Five years later: Do Apple's first iPhone ads ring a bell? Metrics firms bicker over which browser, IE or Chrome, is No. 1 RIM reduces headcount in $1 billion cost-cutting effort Rackspace exec warns of Amazon lock-in Microsoft, Google, IBM and SalesForce.com heat up PaaS Massachusetts joins MIT, Intel to tackle big data WAN virtualization technology: 'RAID for WANs' Cloud failures cost more than $70 million since 2007, researchers estimate Juniper confines SDNs to data center Cisco upgrades Quad enterprise social product, renames it WebEx Social WHITE PAPER: Certeon Put the Power of Application Acceleration to Work Discover a new, non-appliance approach to improving application performance for mobile workers. Through data compression, content-aware data deduplication (using a single instance history store), and by a variety of advanced protocol handling methods and application blueprints, users can see 50%-90% improved throughput. Learn more. Application performance: The key goal of WAN optimization As the WAN matures, with advances in robust applications, cloud delivery and other technologies, optimization tools have had to keep pace. It is no longer just about classic compression and protocol acceleration. The new role is about application performance, delivering everything from application visibility to quality of service (QoS) control. In short, the focus is on true WAN governance. Read More Five years later: Do Apple's first iPhone ads ring a bell? Time flies when you're becoming the world's most popular mobile phone: The iPhone turns five next week. Read More Metrics firms bicker over which browser, IE or Chrome, is No. 1 A pair of Web metrics firms have traded sharp blows, calling into question how their rival measures browser usage, and whether Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Google's Chrome is the planet's most popular. Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon Reduce Network Traffic between VMware VMs Accelerate application performance within your VMware environment. The industry's first virtual appliance for application acceleration for VMware combines high performance of application acceleration with cost-savings of virtualization. It significantly reduces network traffic between VMs. Learn more. RIM reduces headcount in $1 billion cost-cutting effort Research In Motion has started cutting jobs as it tries to achieve its stated goal of slashing US$1 billion in costs by the end of fiscal 2013, the company said on Wednesday. Read More Rackspace exec warns of Amazon lock-in Customers of Amazon Web Services may be unknowingly locking their data and computational logic in with the popular cloud service, making it difficult to move or significantly modify those resources, the president of a competing cloud provider asserted Wednesday. Read More Microsoft, Google, IBM and SalesForce.com heat up PaaS What do you get when you get four of the biggest cloud vendors in a room to talk about one of the hottest emerging trends in the industry? Not a whole lot of agreement for one thing. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Bring Your Own Mobile Devices to School In today's educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school's network. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how to address the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Learn more. Massachusetts joins MIT, Intel to tackle big data With several big data initiatives announced at MIT recently, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said he wants to make his state a hub for research into that emerging field. Read More WAN virtualization technology: 'RAID for WANs' Last time, we looked at the analogy between WAN virtualization and RAID at the business benefits level. Here, we examine the parallels from the technical point of view. Read More Cloud failures cost more than $70 million since 2007, researchers estimate A total of 568 hours of downtime at 13 well-known cloud services since 2007 had an economic impact of more than US$71.7 million dollars, said the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR) on Monday. Read More Juniper confines SDNs to data center Juniper is initially focusing its software defined networking (SDN) strategy on the data center, a market where it can do itself the least amount of damage if the initiative fails to pan out. Read More Cisco upgrades Quad enterprise social product, renames it WebEx Social Cisco Systems is extending the functionality of its Quad enterprise social networking (ESN) software through integration with Microsoft Office applications and with email clients, including Microsoft Outlook. Read More
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