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EMC teams with Avaya (not Cisco) on communication pods | Brocade brings fabrics to the campus networks

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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

WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN

Traditional WLAN vs. Virtual WLAN Matrix
Is it time to bring the power and benefits of virtualization to your wireless network? Check out this side-by-side comparison of a traditional WLAN with physical hardware controllers and a virtual WLAN which runs in the Cloud on a hypervisor (VMware). Learn More

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WHITE PAPER: Eaton Corporation

The Essential Guide to Managing Power
In this interactive KnowledgeVault, you'll find short videos, white papers, case studies, briefs and more, all designed to tackle the issues surrounding electrical power and how to better manage it in light of the demands caused by virtualization and cloud computing. Learn More

EMC teams with Avaya (not Cisco) on communication pods
Two stalwarts in the enterprise IT market joined forces today to release a unified communications stack that integrates hardware from EMC, virtualization technology from VMware and communications apps from Avaya. Perhaps most interesting about the news, though, is a company that was not involved: Cisco. Read More

WEBCAST: Sprint

The Network Foundation of an IT-to-ET Transformation
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT There's an evolutionary process at work that will eventually affect every enterprise IT department. Nemertes Research describes it as a transformation from IT to ET – Enterprise Technology. Learn More

Brocade brings fabrics to the campus networks
This week, data center specialist Brocade announced its "HyperEdge" architecture for campus networks. The concept of HyperEdge is similar to the value proposition the company put forth with its data center fabric architecture – networking is becoming increasingly complex, so a simpler, flatter network is required to support companies moving forward. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors

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!

OpenDaylight: the next Penguin?
It seems to be passe to be solid these days. The latest example of this is the just-announced OpenDaylight project, in which a bunch of the biggest names in computing and networking have gotten together to push an open source development effort to support software-defined (i.e., virtual) networking under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. Read More

Scientists tout advanced process to find surgical robot bugs before the bot cuts off something important
When it comes to having robotic surgeons slicing around inside your brain, heart or other important body organ, surgeons and patients need to know that a software or hardware glitch isn't going to ruin their day. That's why a new technique developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory that promises to reliably detect software bugs... Read More

The SDN incubator
A speaker at a recent Network World event asked the crowd of 450 IT practitioners if they were familiar with software-defined networking (SDN) and only about 10% raised their hands. Read More

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