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	Ciscogate Are you a California taxpayer? If so, are you disturbed by the claims that San Jose-based Cisco Systems attempted to charge you $100 million more than its competitors for a computer network for your state university system? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: F5 Networks Looking for an alternative to Cisco ACE? Visit the Cisco ACE Trade Up Info Center to discover why ACE customers are making the move to F5's industry-leading Application Delivery Controllers. You'll find peer reviews, case studies, news and blog postings, white papers and more. Plus, you'll learn how you can receive up to $12,000 credit when you trade up to F5 solutions! You need the right information to decide what comes after ACE. Get it now at the Cisco ACE Trade Up Info Center now. In this Issue 5 things Juniper must do to reignite growth Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will change IT Riverbed goes big and buys Opnet Rackspace offering lets users build customized virtual networks Riverbed to acquire Opnet in $1B deal IPv6 Is Not an All-or-Nothing Proposition WHITE PAPER: F5 Scale Your DNS Infrastructure to Protect Your Business DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More. 5 things Juniper must do to reignite growth Juniper Networks needs better marketing and execution, among other things, to turn its fortunes around. Read More Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will change IT When you go to a Gartner conference one of he main things you'll notice is the sheer volume of data they can generate on just about any IT topic. Last week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., was no different. The conference, attended by some 9,000 executives focused on the changes security challenges, mobile computing, big data and cloud will be bringing to IT in the near future. Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Pervasive Mobility Drives the Need for WLAN Evolution Today's CIOs are challenged to boost worker productivity and simultaneously lower the cost of IT. The shift to pervasive mobility allows companies to achieve both goals. A number of technology trends have come together to create a "perfect storm," which will bring this vision to reality. Learn More Riverbed goes big and buys Opnet On Monday, October 29th (Hurricane Sandy day!), Riverbed announced its intention to purchase one of the APM market leaders, Opnet, for a shade under a billion dollars ($43/share), which represents about a 30% premium over OPNET's current market cap. To finance the deal, Riverbed will use some debt being financed by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. OPNET will do a shade under $200 million this year,... Read More Rackspace offering lets users build customized virtual networks Rackspace says it is now offering customers the ability to create customized virtual networks in a public cloud, using software defined networking-like capabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now Riverbed to acquire Opnet in $1B deal Riverbed Technology will acquire Opnet Technologies for about US$1 billion, the two companies said Monday. Read More IPv6 Is Not an All-or-Nothing Proposition I have recently met many people who are under the impression that an organization must transition directly from IPv4 to IPv6. Thankfully, this is not the case. You can run IPv4 and IPv6 side-by-side during the interim stage of migration. Only after a long period of running both will you eventually be able to start to disable IPv4. A decade or more from now, IPv6 may be the only network-layer... Read More
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