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	Cisco eyeing Acme Packet? Rumors were circulating this week that Cisco was eyeing Acme Packet as a potential acquisition and it goosed Acme Packet's stock. Benzinga.com, citing unnamed sources, said Cisco was considering a bid for the Bedford, MA., session border controller leader and that Acme Packet has hired an advisor to handle potential bids. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Elevate to Intelligent Application Delivery Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT Traditional application delivery controller (ADC) architectures focus on load balancing and lack the efficiency required in today's IT environment. Join Kavitha Mariappan, Product Marketing Director at Riverbed Technology, to discuss the benefits of an updated ADC. Learn more. In this Issue The benefits of Colocation facilities for the Next-generation Enterprise WAN Fiber optic "magic carpet" network could help predict falling injuries INSIDER CDW CEO: On growing services, cloud applications and reshaping IT Cisco sales: burning the whole candle Survey Finds Most Networks Are Out of Control Highest paid engineers in mobile tech Alphabet Soup: Brocade adds ADCs to its SDN strategy WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More The benefits of Colocation facilities for the Next-generation Enterprise WAN Last time we began our discussion of colocation and how it relates to the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture. Read More Fiber optic "magic carpet" network could help predict falling injuries Scientists have demonstrated a fiber optic-based "magic carpet" that can detect when someone has fallen and could be used to help predict health problems that lead to other accidents in the future. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Release 5.0 Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provides the industry's most scalable, highest performance WAN optimization solution. Cisco WAAS is able to improve end user experience and reduce bandwidth for key applications. Learn more. INSIDER CDW CEO: On growing services, cloud applications and reshaping IT In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, CDW CEO Thomas Richards spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how CDW is expanding its strategic services offering, and how mobility and consumerization are expanding growth opportunities for the company. He also talked about the rollout of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet, and why CDW is in an ideal position to capitalize on the big changes reshaping IT. Read More Cisco sales: burning the whole candle Paul Mountford, head of Cisco's global enterprise sales, and Amanda Jobbins, vice-president of global partner marketing, resign in the same week after a year or so in their new positions. Last month, Cisco announced 1,300 layoffs, most reportedly affecting sales. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Capitalize on the Cloud with a Sound Network Strategy New research underscores cloud computing's challenging effects on corporate networks, but solutions are available. Learn More! Survey Finds Most Networks Are Out of Control Do you know what software is in use on your network? A survey released today by Avecto found that three out of four IT professionals have no idea what unauthorized software might be running on their networks. Read More Highest paid engineers in mobile tech Engineers working on communications technology were paid the highest in the profession last year, according to new IEEE-USA survey data. Read More Alphabet Soup: Brocade adds ADCs to its SDN strategy Amid all the noise of last week's VMworld event, data center specialist Brocade augmented its vision for software defined networks (SDN) by announcing support for VXLAN to its ADX application delivery controllers (ADCs). To date, all of the VXLAN and SDN announcements have been focused on traffic on a single network within a data center. The ADX enhancement is meant to interconnect traffic between... Read More
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