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Juniper adds SDN to mobile networks | OnApp: The most popular cloud platform you've probably never heard of

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Cisco, EMC coalition expands data center portfolio
VCE, the data center coalition formed by Cisco, EMC and VMware, this week expanded its product portfolio with low-end versions of its integrated infrastructure system, certification to run SAP software and new management capabilities. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Symantec

Securing The Promise of Virtualization
Read this whitepaper to learn how data center virtualization is the first step in the journey to private clouds that leverage and enhance existing technology assets. Read Now!

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WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation

Using Services to Support a New Generation of ERP
Top organizations are looking for a new generation of ERP that supports multi-tiered businesses, is easy to use, flexible, and powerful enough to support a growing organization. Learn More. Learn More.

Juniper adds SDN to mobile networks
Juniper Networks this week unveiled software-defined networking products for service providers, designed to enable them to more quickly scale capacity and provision services. Read More

OnApp: The most popular cloud platform you've probably never heard of
For a company that has powered 2,000 clouds with more than 500 service providers in 40 countries, London-based OnApp has largely flown under the radar of industry watchers. But that could be changing for OnApp, which has built up an impressive cloud management platform, complete with an integrated content delivery network and a new storage-area network that it released today in the 3.0 version of its product. Read More

Red Hat doubles down on platform as a service (PaaS)
In the cloud world of the future, some companies will want public cloud resources while others will want private clouds on their own premises, says Ashesh Badani, general manager of Red Hat's cloud business unit. That's why Red Hat has a cloud strategy that incorporates both public and private platform as a service (PaaS) clouds, and it has big plans for those products this year. Read More

WHITE PAPER: AccelOps

BYOD Monitoring Strategies solution brief
This solution brief highlights how AccelOps' integrated security, performance and availability monitoring software allows you to confidently and securely support mobile device access to sensitive corporate IT resources. Read Now

FCC moves to boost wireless speeds, avoid congestion
The FCC wants to make up to 195 megahertz of additional spectrum in the 5 GHz band available to unlicensed wireless devices with the idea that such a move would enable Wi-Fi equipment that can offer faster speeds, increase overall capacity, and reduce congestion. Read More

The beginning of the end of BYOD as we know it
F5 Networks this week added to its security portfolio by announcing its own BYOD solution, known as Mobile Application Manager. It's designed to remove many of the challenges associated with BYOD by taking the burden off the device and pushing the functions into the network. Read More

Cisco unveils software, hardware for hybrid wireless networks
Cisco Tuesday introduced small cell hardware and intelligent software designed to help carriers and enterprises improve wireless connections over hybrid networks made of 3G and 4G cellular and Wi-Fi technologies Read More

WHITE PAPER: McAfee

Consolidate Network Security and Reduce Costs. Read Now>>
Learn how McAfee Network Security Platform helps you realize greater consolidation benefits while minimizing project costs and disruption to your production environment. Read Now

How to hack the certificate for a Cisco Identity Services Engine node
I just got back from a few weeks traveling around Europe, presenting at Cisco Live Europe, and meeting with customers and partners. It is obvious that this blog is very much needed for a lot of the deployments that we discussed, so as promised in the Load Balancing Blog, I am following up with a blog on how to "hack" the certificate for a Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) node. Read More

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Cisco puts a huge value on the 'Internet of everything'
The so-called "Internet of everything," the rapidly approaching world where objects from refrigerators to factory robots can talk to people and other machines, will create a massive business opportunity worth $14.4 trillion over the next decade, according to a new study from Cisco Systems. Read More

Cisco declares war on Microsoft unified communications system
Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft's first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco's enterprise UC offerings. Read More

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