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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Addressing WAN packet loss – borrowing from the CDN/ADN world

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Addressing WAN packet loss – borrowing from the CDN/ADN world
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Citrix is many different things to many people. It's a cloud company, it's a virtualization player, it's a mobile technologies vendor and it's a collaboration products provider. But according to Mark Templeton, Citrix CEO since 2001, all of that blends together and fits with where enterprise IT shops are headed. Here, speaking with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant, Templeton dishes on Citrix's overall strategy, its relationships with Cisco, Microsoft and Apple, its rivalry with VMware, and its controversial take on open source cloud computing. Read More

Cisco makes fourth acquisition in a month
Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire BroadHop, a developer of network management servers and software for carriers. Read More

How to properly use a load balancer in Cisco's Identity Services Engine
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Which EAP types do you need for which identity projects?
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