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	Cisco challenger Arista files to go public Arista Networks has filed to go public at $200 million under the symbol ANET. The company has seen steady revenue growth since 2010, with a compound annual growth rate of 71%, according to its S-1 filing. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Achieving Organizational Transformation Seeking the business benefits generated by private cloud and to free themselves from the silos of traditional IT infrastructures, organizations are turning to an approach that extends virtualization to all compute, network, and storage resources in their datacenters. Learn More In this Issue A look back at 2013's goofy Internet April Foolery Three essential tools for solving the worst Wi-Fi headaches Extreme binds Enterasys gear tighter to its own Microsoft slashes Azure prices, introduces new basic tier Apple was founded April Fool's Day 1976? Not so, says ... Woz? HP bucks up unified access line to better battle Cisco, others Dell unveils BYOD-focused mobility product plans 16 terrible computer pranks that could get you fired Oracle doubles the speed of MySQL query handling FCC clears the way for faster Wi-Fi WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation Extreme Warehouse Speed for Fast Business Decisions Informix ebook highlighting benefits of making decisions 'at the speed of business'; and discusses optimizing warehouse performance; and simplifying resources View Now A look back at 2013's goofy Internet April Foolery Expect this kind of nonsense tomorrow. Read More Three essential tools for solving the worst Wi-Fi headaches Thanks to improvements to routers and network management software, connecting to Wi-Fi is vastly easier than it used to be.A But that doesn't mean the experience is seamless quite yet. Even now you can still run into problems like poor signal quality, dropped connections, lack of public hotspots, and slow speeds. Read More Extreme binds Enterasys gear tighter to its own Extreme Networks has unveiled a software architecture for building SDNs and enabling interoperability between its technology and that of recent acquisition Enterasys. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE The Sky's the Limit for Eclipse Aerospace and VCE Learn how Eclipse was able to virtualize the entire data center without any business disruption, dramatically reduce IT infrastructure hardware costs and easily migrate SAP business applications, Siemens Teamcenter and NX CAD server software. Learn More Microsoft slashes Azure prices, introduces new basic tier Microsoft said Monday it was cutting prices of its Azure cloud services to match the prices of competitor Amazon Web Services in the latest in a price war in cloud services. Read More Apple was founded April Fool's Day 1976? Not so, says ... Woz? Virtually everyone agrees that Apple was "founded" on April 1, 1976 ... everyone except for one of Apple's founders. Read More HP bucks up unified access line to better battle Cisco, others HP this week at the annual Interop Las Vegas conference is rolling out extensions to its unified access wired/wireless product portfolio designed to deliver consistent operation and management across the mixed infrastructure. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Why Partner With a SAM Provider? As IT infrastructures evolve, the complexity of software assets is constantly increasing, creating headaches for IT pros whose responsibility it is to keep track of it all. In response, many are turning to software asset management (SAM) software. View Now Dell unveils BYOD-focused mobility product plans Dell today unveiled enterprise mobility software for Google Android or Apple iOS that supports employee "bring your own device" use by selectively applying VPN controls only to the corporate apps on the device, not the employee's personal apps. Read More 16 terrible computer pranks that could get you fired Look, you're an adult human being. You're better than this. Don't do any of the things in this slideshow. Read More Oracle doubles the speed of MySQL query handling For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system. Read More FCC clears the way for faster Wi-Fi U.S. regulators are opening up spectrum that could allow for Wi-Fi services with speeds of one gigabit per second and faster. Read More
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