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	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). Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Right Size Your Network Performance Management Solution Paying too much for network monitoring? This white paper follows four organizations in their search for the most cost-effective network performance management tool. See the challenges they encountered along the way and how they used product fit and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to make the switch from bloated, overpriced solutions to SolarWinds. Click here to get this FREE whitepaper from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and learn how four organizations benefitted from choosing SolarWinds award winning Network Performance Monitor. In this Issue Super-fast Wi-Fi: Cisco, Ubiquiti access points top out at nearly 400Mbps HP rolls out next-gen firewall line, threat-detection service Bossies 2013: The Best of Open Source Software Awards Juniper ships SDN controller, dismisses OpenDaylight technology 8 reasons why Chromebooks aren't going away Take note: Box looks beyond cloud storage with note-taking app NAND flash use is up, but Apple's buying binge slows An alternate method of SDN network programmability How cloud-based disaster recovery is getting more efficient 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 Super-fast Wi-Fi: Cisco, Ubiquiti access points top out at nearly 400Mbps Earlier this year we tested several consumer-level 802.11ac routers. Here, we take a look at two enterprise-level access points. They're a part of the so-called "Wave 1" phase of the 802.11ac standard: both access points support up to three spatial streams and 80 MHz wide channels, offering theoretical data rates up to 1.3Gbps. But just as we saw with the 802.11ac routers, you won't get throughput rates nearly that fast. 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 Bossies 2013: The Best of Open Source Software Awards This year, the annual Bossie Awards recognize 120 of the best open source software for data centers and clouds, desktops and mobile devices, developers and IT pros. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More Juniper ships SDN controller, dismisses OpenDaylight technology Juniper Networks is now shipping its SDN controller and has also made it available as open source code, signaling an intention to not develop product around the OpenDaylight SDN consortium's work. Read More 8 reasons why Chromebooks aren't going away Chromebooks are here to stay. Here's why. Read More Take note: Box looks beyond cloud storage with note-taking app Box, the Silicon Valley darling that has disrupted enterprise cloud storage and file sharing, will broaden its scope into the content-creation space with a new online note-taking application. Read More WHITE PAPER: AirWatch, Apperian, Good Technology, Symantec The Mobile Application Management Challenge Mobility has become the norm within enterprises, and mobile apps are the key to increasing productivity and opening new opportunities. This trend is great for the enterprise as a whole, but it presents new challenges to IT. Read Now NAND flash use is up, but Apple's buying binge slows While overall use of NAND flash is up, Apples consumption waned over the past quarter. At the same time, 3D NAND flash, which offers far greater capacity than todays flash drives, is expected to dominate the future. Read More An alternate method of SDN network programmability If you haven't been living under a rock for the past few years, your head is probably about to explode from Software Defined Networking overload. Rooted in Stanford academic research, SDN was initially branded as a "science project," which in reality it was. However, rapidly growing market interest quickly propelled it from theory to practice and the era of SDN startups had begun. Read More How cloud-based disaster recovery is getting more efficient Through advancements to back-end systems, providers of cloud-based disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) are becoming more efficient at storing customer data and getting faster at restoring sites. Read More
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