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	Comcast to IPv6-enable commercial broadband service Comcast plans to expand its IPv6-based offerings for business customers with the launch of commercial broadband and Metro Ethernet services that support the next-gen Internet Protocol later this year. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: WildPackets Essential Reference for Monitoring your IT Infrastructure How do you choose a network monitoring solution - SNMP monitoring, flow-based monitoring, or packet analysis - that is right your IT infrastructure? Download this ebook for a crash course in network monitoring for analysis and learn to use multi-segment analysis to diagnose performance problems with distributed application architectures. Download this ebook for a crash course in network monitoring for analysis and learn to use multi-segment analysis to diagnose performance problems with distributed application architectures. In this Issue Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs Knocking down MPLS myths Virtual Instruments: Avoiding "The Abyss", trouncing Brocade and not hiding behind SDN Dell dives deeper into SDN with new hardware and software Dish Network launches $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Alcatel-Lucent focuses on practical SDN NASA, Air Force define cutting-edge next-generation space computer Wandera eyes enterprise data roaming costs Skepticism follows Cisco-IBM led OpenDaylight SDN consortium AppliedMicro, Altera team to speed up ARM servers WHITE PAPER: VMware, Cisco and NetApp Meritrust Sees Results with FlexPod and VMware Faced with an aging physical IT infrastructure, Meritrust Credit Union sought a more stable foundation for its business critical applications and for its Oracle database, which is central to its operations. Read Now! Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs Startup Glue Networks is targeting Cisco's installed base of WAN routers as a sweet spot for its SDN WAN offerings. Read More Knocking down MPLS myths While enterprises need any-any connectivity, neither traffic patterns nor VoIP require a fully meshed WAN. Read More Virtual Instruments: Avoiding "The Abyss", trouncing Brocade and not hiding behind SDN Virtual Instruments, the nearly 5-year-old infrastructure performance management software and hardware maker, is one of those companies that might never become a household name no matter how successful it becomes. In fact, many at first mistake the company for being in the music business. Read More WHITE PAPER: Eaton Corporation Simplifying Power Management in Virtualized Data Centers Few virtualization management tools, even the excellent VMware vCenter, have built-in power management. Eaton's Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) plug-in fills that gap with sophisticated power management features, accessed directly from the vCenter Server dashboard. Learn More Dell dives deeper into SDN with new hardware and software Dell says it's hoping to move closer to the forefront of data center technology with the release today of a suite of new products designed for software-defined networking. Read More Dish Network launches $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Dish Network has made a US$25.5 billion bid to acquire wireless operator Sprint Nextel, hoping to edge out a rival bid from Japanese operator SoftBank. Read More Alcatel-Lucent focuses on practical SDN Last week, Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) held its annual Industry Analyst conference in Annapolis, Maryland. Unified Communications has historically been the primary focus for ALU's go-to-market strategy, but the company has spent the last few years beefing up its OmniSwitch data networking portfolio as well. 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! NASA, Air Force define cutting-edge next-generation space computer It's not every day a customer wants a computer that can do everything from direct a landing on the surface of Mars, to control descent onto a speeding asteroid or coordinate a flight of satellites -- but NASA and the Air Force's space group aren't everyday customers. Read More Wandera eyes enterprise data roaming costs Eyeing the sometimes considerable data roaming bills that companies receive, a startup called Wandera launched a service Wednesday that promises to cut down on roaming data use. Read More Skepticism follows Cisco-IBM led OpenDaylight SDN consortium If you're skeptical about the intentions of the OpenDaylight SDN consortium, you're not alone. Read More AppliedMicro, Altera team to speed up ARM servers Applied Micro Circuits is aiming to make its 64-bit chip for ARM servers more powerful and flexible through a collaboration with specialized chip maker Altera. Read More
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