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	INSIDER Cisco takes early lead in SDN thought leadership Everyone is vying to become the leader is the world of Software Defined Networking, but according to Network World's 2014 survey of nearly 300 IT execs, the race is extremely wide open. Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments 4 Key Survival Tips for Planning Your Next Big Data Project Big Data projects slam network performance. This paper offer survival tips to prepare your network before the Big Data projects hit, not after. Learn how to monitor and manage network performance for bandwidth, consistent low latency, scalable storage, processing power and security. Learn More In this Issue Network World's 2014 State of the Network survey HP unveils Cisco-like SDN switch Netflix won't budge in dispute with Verizon over video quality Start-up wants to use Big Data to thwart security threats The SAN is dead! Long live the storage fabric! HP enters supercomputing market with water-cooled Apollo system How to make the most of an IT buyer's market Apple's storage strategy: Clear, not cloudy The tech industry goes to the World Cup Annual cost of cybercrime hits near $400 billion WHITE PAPER: OPSWAT Advanced threat detection methods for securing remote users Remote users can introduce significant threats to your network. As employees and other business partners increasingly work from the road and remote offices, the risks have grown exponentially. To secure remote users, unique advanced threat detection solutions are needed. Learn more Network World's 2014 State of the Network survey Aligning IT with the business has been a top priority of IT organizations for the past few years, but that is changing, according to the latest State of the Network Survey. IT has apparently made enough headway on the alignment issue that other priorities are coming to the fore. The No. 1 business objective of the 282 IT respondents is decreasing operational costs, while the top technology objective is lowering IT operational costs through server consolidation and overall IT simplification. Read More HP unveils Cisco-like SDN switch HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking switch and application that add bulk to the company's 50-switch SDN arsenal and should enable it to compete more directly with Cisco and Arista on this front. Read More Netflix won't budge in dispute with Verizon over video quality Netflix defended its error messages to customers that blamed Verizon Communications' network, despite a cease-and-desist notice from the broadband service provider. Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments 4 Key Survival Tips for Planning Your Next Big Data Project Big Data projects slam network performance. This paper offer survival tips to prepare your network before the Big Data projects hit, not after. Learn how to monitor and manage network performance for bandwidth, consistent low latency, scalable storage, processing power and security. Learn More Start-up wants to use Big Data to thwart security threats Start-up Exabeam today came out of stealth mode, saying it plans to make available a big data security analytics product in a few months to help bring greater precision in identifying threats and incidents. Read More The SAN is dead! Long live the storage fabric! Prior to my days as an analyst I spent many years toiling away in corporate IT. The area within IT that I had the most interest and passion in was the network. It's a little like when Spock said to Captain Kirk that "commanding a starship was his first, best destiny." Sure, Kirk might go and try being a diplomat, but at the end of the day he finds his way back to the bridge. Read More HP enters supercomputing market with water-cooled Apollo system Hewlett-Packard has entered the market for supercomputers with a new Apollo family of systems, including a high-end machine that has a novel water-based system to keep it cool. Read More : CA Technologies The Singular Importance of Application Performance In today's landscape where application performance is everything, it's clear that a new approach is needed — one that assesses network and application performance both in context with each other and in how they impact the business. Learn more! How to make the most of an IT buyer's market After years of fighting tooth and nail with vendors for meager price discounts or modest service-level agreements, IT has seen the tables start to turn: Sweeping changes are reshaping the vendor landscape, shifting negotiating power from stingy service providers to savvy CIOs. Read More Apple's storage strategy: Clear, not cloudy Apple has no plan to broadly compete in the online storage market, its recently-unveiled iCloud enhancements and new features notwithstanding, an analyst argued today.Instead, the moves -- long called for by pundits and advanced users -- are simply more of the same in Apple's long-standing strategy to build a better experience on its own devices so it sells more hardware, said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research." Read More The tech industry goes to the World Cup As we hurtle towards the start of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, here's a look at some major tech players, along with their international soccer analogues. Just in case you were trying to decide whom to root for, or something. Read More Annual cost of cybercrime hits near $400 billion An estimate of the global cost of cybercrime — losses from cyber-espionage theft of intellectual property, plus all types of personal and financial data stolen and dealing with the fallout — is being tabbed at least $400 billion annually, according to the report published today by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Read More
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