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IBM defends OpenDaylight from doubters
IBM is asking that people judge the OpenDaylight SDN project by its accomplishments, not by its roster. Read More

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Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization
In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now!

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The Controller-less Access Network Architecture
Yesterday's de facto standard architecture is commonly referred to as the, "controller-based" model, involving controllers and thin access points. Read Now

Run from Daylight
Once word started to spread among the vendor community about the OpenDaylight SDN project before it was announced, Dell decided to initiate its own SDN standards effort within the Object Management Group. That effort, an SDN working committee within the OMG, now has about 20 other participants, said Tom Burns, vice president and general manager of Dell Networking. Read More

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Mobilize: A unified IT approach to the mobile workspace
Why does unification matter for today's enterprise? The answer can be found by looking to today's defining trends. The consumerization of IT, BYOD, mobility-based business models--they're all transforming how employees work and customers engage. Read Now

Open Networking Foundation director details SDN directions, OpenDaylight impact
The third annual Open Networking Summit, an SDN conference organized by the Open Networking Foundation, convened this week just after ONF members Cisco and IBM unveiled a separate effort to define an open source SDN framework. Unlike the user-driven ONF, OpenDaylight is a vendor-driven project to cultivate a system of SDN applications, but it also raised suspicion of the group's real intent: Is it designed to stall SDN's momentum and the threat, real or perceived, it could pose to incumbent hardware vendors? ONF Executive Director Dan Pitt discussed some of these topics with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy at the Santa Clara, Calif., conference. Read More

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Service-Oriented Performance Management Strategy
This white paper is to help IT organizations adopt a management methodology that enables them to improve the user experience by focusing on service delivery management. Learn 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. In fact, if you recall, ALU was the focal point of this Network World Article where the company beat... Read More

What I'm Learning about Mobile Computing Security Best Practices
When I started my career at EMC in 1987, the company ran the business on Prime Computers. I was able to convince my boss that I could improve the quality and efficiency of our group's business reports with a PC, so the company purchased a Macintosh computer and printer for me to use. This may have made me the first PC user in EMC history though I can't be sure. Read More

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