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	Cisco claims scuttled by VMware In criticizing software-only overlays for network virtualization, two points Cisco continually brings up are hypervisor dependency and the need to touch all endpoints when changes are made to the virtual. But VMware, the chief target of Cisco's criticism, takes issue with both counts. 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 F5, VMware & Cisco: One happy family? Insieme FAQ: a few key facts Riverbed wins 7-vendor WAN optimization test Cruise line plans 11ac network upgrades for stem-to-stern Wi-Fi NASA: Kepler's most excellent space discoveries The Internet of things needs a lot of work Cisco Live Classes for FREE! Dual-Protocol Routing with Raspberry Pi F5 execs: We're blasting virtualization beyond Layer 3 WEBCAST: Comcast IT Transformation: Making the Move to Services IT functions today are delivered on-demand from a trusted third-party, often from the cloud. CIOs can focus more on driving business innovation, and less on core functions. Hosted voice solutions directly support this shift: they are cost-effective, streamline disaster recovery and business continuity, and centralize management and processes. View Now F5, VMware & Cisco: One happy family? At first blush, F5 Networks' new Synthesis Architecture for Software-Defined Application Services might appear to compete with new offerings from Cisco and VMware. But no, F5 CEO John McAdam and executive vice president of Strategic Solutions Manuel Rivelo tell IDG Communications Chief Content Officer John Gallant that F5 is very much in sync with these two data center giants (we did not, however, press them on the relationship between Cisco and VMware). Read More Insieme FAQ: a few key facts The launch of Insieme Networks has been one of the most anticipated events in the networking industry over the past 18 months or so, ever since word leaked that Cisco was funding the spin-in as its response to the software-defined networking trend. Today, Cisco ends the suspense and speculation on what the company has been working on and how it will impact SDNs specifically and the networking industry in general. Read More Riverbed wins 7-vendor WAN optimization test As applications move to the cloud, network managers are seeing increasing requirements to optimize and manage WAN connections. Most enterprises have migrated to web-based applications and make heavy use of Internet services for day-to-day business. All of this makes network performance a key factor for productivity and end-user satisfaction. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Wan Deduplication: Getting More by Sending Less Recently, data deduplication has made its way from the storage to the networking community. More specifically, it has become an important tool for optimizing application performance across the WAN. This paper discusses how WAN deduplication works, and how it can be effectively deployed as a complement to existing storage deduplication solutions. Learn more >> Cruise line plans 11ac network upgrades for stem-to-stern Wi-Fi People sign up for cruise ships to get away from it all. But not quite all: Passengers still want Wi-Fi access for the growing number of mobile devices they lug with them on vacation for staying in touch, web surfing, music, photos and video. Cruise line Royal Caribbean is turning to 802.11ac to optimize their Wi-Fi connectivity for this mobile data deluge. Read More NASA: Kepler's most excellent space discoveries NASA's Kepler space telescope continues to amaze Read More The Internet of things needs a lot of work Mobile connected devices may make life easier for consumers in the long run, but today they present a bundle of user headaches, a panel of industry leaders said Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Software Asset Management: Getting Started Find out what steps to take that can lead your organization down the smooth path to SAM deployment. This SAM primer can help you and your organization mitigate software non-compliance issues and optimize software license management while containing costs. Read Now Cisco Live Classes for FREE! Studying for a certification and trying to find something of quality online that will help you? Or maybe you are like me and you are just trying to keep up in this fast paced and rapidly changing world of today's IT? Or maybe your department or company (finally) has decided to start looking at and planning for IPv6. Whoever you are. Whatever your reason. If you are in the world of IT... Read More Dual-Protocol Routing with Raspberry Pi Network Engineers are always looking for new ways to gain some low-cost network testing capabilities. Few companies sufficiently fund networking labs for their networking teams to learn on prior to deployment. Many have use Cisco IOS hypervisors on laptops using the Graphical Network Simulator (GNS3), Dynagen and Dynamips that allow experimentation and learning. While you wait for Cisco's Read More F5 execs: We're blasting virtualization beyond Layer 3 Cisco wasn't the only networking company making big virtualization news last week with the debut of its Insieme product line and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) strategy aimed at virtualizing the data center. F5 Networks, in addition to announcing that it will work hand-in-hand with Cisco on ACI integration, launched its own Synthesis Architecture for Software-Defined Application Services, which aims to virtualize networking functions above Layers 2/3. Read More
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