10 network virtualization, SDN and data center companies to watch

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	10 network virtualization, SDN and data center companies to watch After years of venture capital and start-up focus on consumer-focused tech companies, enterprise networks and the data center are back in vogue. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Good APM Practices Get Results According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More. In this Issue Cisco, EMC data center coalition feels on solid ground Do you still have a snail-mail box at work? Google cozies up to developers with Google+ Sign-In Entrusting Cisco could cost you US lawmakers look for waste in broadband stimulus Juniper Networks tried to sell enterprise assets: report It's an unstructured world and Rackspace wants to play in it Amazon warns users not to install current version of the Kindle app for iOS Do enterprise security teams want "Big Data Security"? Entertainment producers decry broadband data caps WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com How the Best Businesses Connect Expectations that have become commonplace in today's modern, connected world demand a level of connectivity, performance and agility that conventional IT infrastructures were not built to deliver. Read Now! Cisco, EMC data center coalition feels on solid ground There's been a lot of speculation on what the future holds for VCE, the converged data center infrastructure coalition formed by Cisco, EMC and VMware, in light of recent maneuvers by those companies to become more competitive and less reliant on each other in the marketplace, and with the advent of software-defined networking. VCE itself, though, is leading the nascent market for integrated infrastructure, according to Gartner, and is on a billion-dollar run rate - but also losing almost that much for founders EMC and Cisco. VCE CEO Praveen Akkiraju and CTO Trey Layton navigate the churning waters of the converged data infrastructure market with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy Read More Do you still have a snail-mail box at work? So how infrequently do I check my own snail-mail box here at Network World? Well, I just found a birthday card in it. And my birthday is Halloween. Read More Google cozies up to developers with Google+ Sign-In Google is making it easier for app developers to connect with users on its social network through Google+ Sign-In, a new feature that allows people to sign into third-party apps using their Google+ credentials. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP This paper describes a hardware and software reference architecture for using HP hardware to deploy very large and highly transactional Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 OLTP database systems in tier 1 enterprise application environments. Learn More! Entrusting Cisco could cost you The State of West Virginia wasting millions by buying way more router capacity than needed; California State University saving $100 million through a competitive bid while San Jose State pays more for its own network than the entire university system through a non-bid contr Read More US lawmakers look for waste in broadband stimulus Some Republican lawmakers on Wednesday accused two U.S. agencies of wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in broadband stimulus money on failed projects, but supporters of the broadband spending questioned the Republican numbers. Read More Juniper Networks tried to sell enterprise assets: report Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) reportedly shopped around its enterprise assets to rivals last year but found no takers for properties such as the NetScreen security business it acquired in 2004. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Optimizing Hybrid Networks for SaaS With the delay and packet loss associated with the Internet and private WANs, SaaS-based applications tend to exhibit erratic performance that can become a barrier to SaaS adoption. Learn more. It's an unstructured world and Rackspace wants to play in it Databases and the information in them used to be simple, but not any more. Not all data fits into neat spreadsheets and SQL databases. Hence, the rise of NoSQL databases to handle this mass of unstructured data. Read More Amazon warns users not to install current version of the Kindle app for iOS Kindle app devotees will want to shy away from the Update All button in the App Store for the time being. Amazon recently released an update to the app, but unlucky upgraders discovered that the app update logged them out and wiped out their stored books. Read More Do enterprise security teams want "Big Data Security"? A big theme at the RSA Conference this year is a concept known as Big Data Security -- the idea that massive amounts of data related to both network security and of business context should be stockpiled to be analyzed to pinpoint malware, rogue insiders and stealthy attacks aimed at stealing sensitive data. Read More Entertainment producers decry broadband data caps Data caps on broadband service stifle innovation and hurt producers of groundbreaking video programs, representatives of the U.S. entertainment industry said Tuesday. Read More
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