OpenDaylight executive director spells out where open source SDN efforts stand

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	OpenDaylight executive director spells out where this open source SDN efforts stand OpenDaylight is a Linux Foundation Collaborative project that is building an Open Source SDN controller. To find out how the effort is going, Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Neela Jacques, who joined the OpenDaylight project last November as Executive Director. Read More WHITE PAPER: Equinix How Network Connections Drive Web Application Performance Users around the globe, on all sorts of devices, expect Web applications to function as seamlessly as desktop applications. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions for effectively delivering applications in today's global marketplace. View now In this Issue Will NSX snub hurt Cisco's integrated infrastructures? Cisco acquires OpenStack cloud provider FCC gets record number of net neutrality comments, what now? Startup backs services with elasticity of AWS, Azure clouds to outlast DDoS attacks Cisco gives OpenStack a kick in the 'aas' Testing the Internet of Things: Can smart devices be united into an integrated whole? VMware gives desktop admins more control with Mirage update Windows 9 leak shows Storage Sense and Wi-Fi Sense coming over from Windows Phone VMware and Cisco patch vulnerabilities in data-center gear and software WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Gartner Magic Quadrant for ADCs Citrix is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers for the seventh consecutive year: the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report focuses on vendor's ability to solve complex application deployment challenges. Don't miss this chance to learn from Gartner's independent research. Learn More Will NSX snub hurt Cisco's integrated infrastructures? Did Cisco and NetApp shoot themselves in the foot by rejecting VMware's NSX on FlexPod? This Seeking Alpha post, by investment researcher Critical Timing, implies that they did by ceding roughly one-third of the SDN market. Read More Cisco acquires OpenStack cloud provider Cisco this week said it will acquire privately held Metacloud, an operator of private OpenStack clouds for global enterprises.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read More FCC gets record number of net neutrality comments, what now? The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's deadline for the public to comment on the agency's proposed net neutrality rules passed Monday with more than 3 million comments filed, by far a record number for an FCC proceeding. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cloudera Big Data must become a first class citizen in the enterprise The most direct path to making Big Data -- and Hadoop -- a first-class citizen will be through an "embrace and extend" approach that not only maps to existing skill sets, data center policies and practices, and business use cases, but also extends them. Learn more Startup backs services with elasticity of AWS, Azure clouds to outlast DDoS attacks Security services startup Sentrix mirrors customer Web sites in Amazon Web Services and Azure clouds in order to dynamically expand site resources during distributed denial of service attacks and keep the sites running until attackers exhaust their resources, give up or move on to easier targets. Read More Cisco gives OpenStack a kick in the 'aas' Earlier this year, Cisco announced its strategy to build a world of interconnected clouds. The strategy, called Intercloud, was based on the concept that the compute industry would transition to a number of interconnected public and private clouds where information, data, and workloads could migrate from one cloud to another, securely, and automatically. A grandiose vision, to say the least. Read More Testing the Internet of Things: Can smart devices be united into an integrated whole? I have had a smart thermostat and Wi-Fi security cameras in my home for about a year. While using these, I started to wonder if the task of managing smart devices could quickly get out of hand. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic Defense throughout the Vulnerability Life Cycle New security threats are emerging all the time, from new forms of malware and web application exploits that target code vulnerabilities to attacks that rely on social engineering. Learn More VMware gives desktop admins more control with Mirage update A new feature in Mirage 5.1 lets adminstrators control bandwidth use at branch offices. Read More Windows 9 leak shows Storage Sense and Wi-Fi Sense coming over from Windows Phone A couple more Windows Phone features are apparently headed to Windows 9, with signs of Wi-Fi Sense and Storage Sense showing up in the latest leaked preview builds. Read More VMware and Cisco patch vulnerabilities in data-center gear and software VMware and Cisco Systems released security fixes this week for serious vulnerabilities in networking virtualization and server software typically used in data centers. Read More
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