IBM, AT&T team on cloud services

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	IBM, AT&T team on cloud services IBM has teamed with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather than the public Internet, the companies said Tuesday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: McAfee McAfee Network Security Platform Learn about the latest on security threats, design strategies for ensuring data center security, and real-life examples of how McAfee Network Security Platform actually works. Download now In this Issue New Akamai service optimizes content delivery for device, network conditions Alcatel-Lucent simplifies installation of 100M bps VDSL IT job numbers decline for first time in 25 months Addressing WAN latency issues in application performance Top 10 cloud jobs Arista nabs Cisco SDN engineer Cautious IT optimism, but way behind in BYOD Nook Video: The next video on demand network VMware, the bell tolls for thee, and Microsoft is ringing it Dell supercomputer effort spawns new line of servers 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 New Akamai service optimizes content delivery for device, network conditions Akamai Technologies will announce on Tuesday a new service for improving website performance that determines the type of device and network a user has -- and whether the device has an IPv4 or IPv6 address -- and then improves the delivery of Web content accordingly. Read More Alcatel-Lucent simplifies installation of 100M bps VDSL Alcatel-Lucent has upgraded its implementation of the VDSL2 vectoring noise cancellation technology in order to make it easier to implement, and as a result let operators offer higher broadband speeds over phone lines to more users. Read More IT job numbers decline for first time in 25 months After sustained jobs growth -- including 36,300 jobs added in July and August alone -- the IT industry lost 1,700 jobs in September, according to Foote Partners' analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. Addressing WAN latency issues in application performance Different networking and non-networking technologies needed to fully address all the factors impacting application performance over the WAN. Read More Top 10 cloud jobs Dice.com, the popular tech-focused job site, posts upwards of 3,800 cloud-related job listings on any given day. Researchers there crunched the numbers to come up with a list of the top 10 most available jobs in the cloud. These job descriptions and credentials were compiled using multiple job listings in each category. Read More Arista nabs Cisco SDN engineer Arista Networks has named a former Cisco engineer as its vice president of SDN engineering, and hired a CFO. The maker low latency data center and cloud switches tapped Tom Black, a vice president of engineering at Cisco for 13 years, to help drive its own SDN efforts. 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. Cautious IT optimism, but way behind in BYOD "Slow and steady" seems to be the watchword, with the bulk of IT shops responding to our latest "State of the Network" study saying their budgets and headcount will remain flat in the coming year. Read More Nook Video: The next video on demand network Barnes & Noble won't just be releasing new Nook tablets on November 1st, they'll also be releasing a new Internet video on demand network, Nook Video. Read More VMware, the bell tolls for thee, and Microsoft is ringing it VMworld is about a month behind us now and I've had a little more time to noodle on the joint survey I did with virtualization management vendor Xangati. Read More Dell supercomputer effort spawns new line of servers Dell has developed a line of servers based on designs the company is using in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede. Read More
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