Cisco, EMC coalition supports Oracle, VDI

	VOSS goes modular to simplify UC management | Juniper's Contrail makes it 'frenemies' with VMware
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	Cisco, EMC coalition supports Oracle, VDI VCE, the data center-focused joint venture formed by Cisco and EMC/VMware, this week rolled out converged infrastructure systems designed to support the latest technology from the founding companies as well as specialized offerings for Oracle and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Read More WHITE PAPER: Spirent Communications Challenges for Modern Networks Built Using SDN and OpenFlow The Testing Challenges of SDN and OpenFlow white paper Covers Emerging network deployment scenarios, Current shifts in traffic type crossing networks and Challenges with Cost, Agility and Design. Read Now In this Issue VOSS goes modular to simplify UC management Juniper's Contrail makes it 'frenemies' with VMware MIT team says space weather has taken out satellites Lessons on the Future of IT From 'Future Shock' and 'The Singularity Is Near' Air Force whacks 52-year old space fence KVM vendor creating open source hypervisor specifically for cloud workloads HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service WHITE PAPER: Motorola Solutions Inc. What You Need to Know About 802.11AC The first standard wireless LANs emerged at 1Mbps and 2Mbps to serve niche applications such as warehouse picking, inventory scanning and, in office buildings where mobility wasn't a requirement, cordless PC connections aimed at lowering cabling costs. Fast forward through several WLAN generations to today, and the story has completely changed. Learn more. VOSS goes modular to simplify UC management Despite the numerous advancements in Unified Communications (UC) over the past few years, managing UC remains a challenge for many organizations, particularly large enterprises and service providers. Deployments in these environments can be quite complex, as the number of systems and interdependencies between them can overwhelm even the best and most knowledgeable network manager. Read More Juniper's Contrail makes it 'frenemies' with VMware It seems we can't go more than a couple of weeks without someone making another product announcement related to software defined networks (SDNs). A couple of weeks ago, VMware announced its NSX network virtualization platform at its user conference, VMworld. Along with the platform, VMware highlighted a number of NSX partners, one of which was Juniper Networks. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Unleash the full potential of BYOD with confidence Growing numbers of smartphones and tablets are pushing enterprise networks to the limit and creating security and management challenges for IT organizations. This white paper reviews BYOD administration, performance, and security implications, and describes how the HP BYOD solution lets you realize all the benefits of BYOD, with confidence. Learn more. MIT team says space weather has taken out satellites Bad space weather -- everything form solar flares, geomagnetic storms and electromagnetic radiation has wreaked havoc on a number of satellites over the years and much more needs to be done to protect these systems that provide so much of our communications systems. Read More Lessons on the Future of IT From 'Future Shock' and 'The Singularity Is Near' Alvin Toffler introduced to the term 'information overload,' while Ray Kurzweil told us we'll be overload with more information each decade than in the previous century. There's a lesson for the IT departments of today (and tomorrow): Ignore emerging technology, despite its flaws, at your own risk. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks 10 Steps to Improving the Mobile User Experience This paper will outline the essential network infrastructure and support best practices necessary to deliver an optimized mobile end-user experience, and offer 10 recommended steps that lead to higher end-user satisfaction. Learn more. Air Force whacks 52-year old space fence The so-called "space fence," a VHS-based system of radars and transmitters that has watched space for incoming objects since 1961 will cease to exist as of Oct. 1. Some reports say the system has already shut down. Read More KVM vendor creating open source hypervisor specifically for cloud workloads Dor Laor and Avi Kivity know a thing or two about virtualization, hypervisors and operating systems. And Laor says there are big problems with all three. Read More HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service HP today took the wraps off its Next-Generation Firewall line designed to exert application-level controls and visibility over all traffic related to the enterprise, including mobile devices used in public WiFi settings and traffic from cloud services. Read More
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