How to keep your network in tip-top health

	Riverbed unveils the Mini-Me of ADCs | 'Bigfoot' SDN sightings and Internet of Whats? highlight Cisco survey
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	INSIDER How to keep your network in tip-top health If your network has between 1,000 and10,000 devices and computers, you have a midsized network. Your servers, connections and other resources suffer the same problems as larger networks, but your budget for keeping the network healthy is less than what large enterprises enjoy. Read More WEBCAST: Dell VMware Virtualization Boosts SMBs For SMBs, the most important driver of virtualization is better disaster prevention and recovery. But in this KnowledgeVault from Dell and VMware, we'll learn how IT leaders are aiming higher much higher with their virtualization initiatives with things like application virtualization, while optimizing their disaster recovery efforts. Learn More Now! In this Issue Riverbed unveils the Mini-Me of ADCs 'Bigfoot' SDN sightings and Internet of Whats? highlight Cisco survey Citrix bakes WAN optimization into branch office hardware Commodity hardware will be hallmark of SDN networks Cisco gets tough: Details ruggedized switches for harsh environments Is your social network built enterprise tough? After Arista and before Cisco/Insieme, Huawei hikes 100G bar again Cisco's OpenFlow basher jumps to Big Switch SDN company claims it has the largest SDN Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More Riverbed unveils the Mini-Me of ADCs If you remember the old Austin Powers movies, Mini-Me was a full replica of Dr. Evil in every way. Just as evil, just as cunning, and just as powerful. Today, Riverbed announced a "mini-me" version of its Stingray application delivery controller (ADC). Stingray came into Riverbed through the acquisition of Zeus so, in a way, Riverbed's latest product is Mini-Zeus. Read More 'Bigfoot' SDN sightings and Internet of Whats? highlight Cisco survey SDN and "The Internet of Things" are two of the hotter topics in the industry today, thanks to industry coalescence and Cisco marketing, respectively. But Cisco admits that less than half of those who work in IT are even vaguely familiar with "The Internet of Things." Read More Citrix bakes WAN optimization into branch office hardware Citrix announced new models in its CloudBridge line of branch repeater hardware, along with a software update to Version 7.0, which adds WAN optimization capability and direct support for public cloud services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems 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 Commodity hardware will be hallmark of SDN networks Don't get too attached to your specialized network hardware – you're not going to need it in the future, says one researcher. Read More Cisco gets tough: Details ruggedized switches for harsh environments Cisco, which wants to expand its clout into the industrial networks used by power-generation utilities to support the electric grid, today announced an expansion of its "smart grid" portfolio with ruggedized and low-latency switches and other equipment intended for use in electric-power distribution systems. Read More Is your social network built enterprise tough? You don't have to look further than the uprisings across the Arab world to recognize the power of social tools, and this transformative power applies to business as well. But for an enterprise social network (ESN) to be genuinely useful, it needs to go beyond the "Facebook for enterprise" model. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Inc Remote Management and Control for Business Continuity Data centers are susceptible to a variety of disasters, attributable to human error, system breakdowns and other factors. Secure remote access and control are essential to minimizing fallout. This white paper focuses on solutions that allow quick access and recovery of virtually any server. Learn more. After Arista and before Cisco/Insieme, Huawei hikes 100G bar again Huawei this week unveiled a high-end upgrade to its CloudEngine core switch, which debuted here at Interop a year ago. Read More Cisco's OpenFlow basher jumps to Big Switch Here's a jawdropper, and a PR coup for Big Switch: Prashant Gandhi, senior director of the Server Access Virtualization Technology Group at Cisco -- he of the "OpenFlow is a fantasy" rant at a March tech blogger meeting -- has jumped to OpenFlow crusader Big Switch Networks. Gandhi will run product strategy and development there. Read More SDN company claims it has the largest SDN ConteXtream, a developer of network virtualization software for SDNs, this week said its products have been deployed by a Tier 1 U.S. wireless operator to virtualize a network of nearly 40 million subscribers in what the company says is the largest production SDN implemented to date. Read More Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack The network at one of the biggest annual networking shows is being subject to a series of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) creating the equivalent of 90 million sessions attempting to use the network at the same time, all as part of a controlled test of the Interop network. Read More
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